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Game state source: whynba · Retrieved Oct 9, 6:37 pm EDTNBA legend. Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Biography, honors and career statistics below.
Louie Dampier
Career at a glance
Louie Dampier played 12 professional regular seasons (9 in the ABA, 3 in the NBA) between 1967 and 1979. He played for 2 teams: Kentucky (ABA) (1967–76, 728 games), San Antonio (1976–79, 232 games). His best scoring season was 1969–70 with Kentucky (ABA): 26.0 points per game over 82 games.
Championship season: 1974–75 (Kentucky (ABA)). In the playoffs he appeared in 12 postseason runs. Multiplying each season’s games by its scoring average gives roughly 15,300 regular-season points (an estimate from per-game figures, not an official total).
whynba analysis of the season-by-season statistics below (Wikipedia revision, CC BY-SA 4.0). Totals are estimates from per-game averages.
About Louie Dampier
Louis Dampier (born November 20, 1944) is an American former professional basketball player. He played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA), primarily playing with the Kentucky Colonels.
A 6-foot-tall guard, Dampier is one of only a handful of men to play all nine seasons in the American Basketball Association (ABA) (1967–1976), all with the Kentucky Colonels. Dampier is the only player that played in the playoffs in all nine ABA years. His 728 games played in the ABA is the most for any player.
He also was one of just two players to play all nine ABA seasons with the same team; the other was Byron Beck of the Denver Rockets, later renamed the Nuggets. After the ABA–NBA merger in 1976, Dampier played three seasons (1976–1979) in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the San Antonio Spurs. Dampier was inducted as a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
- Born
- November 20, 1944 (age 81) Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
- Listed weight
- 170 lb (77 kg)
- Position
- Point guard
- High school
- Southport (Indianapolis, Indiana)
- College
- Kentucky (1964–1967)
- NBA draft
- 1967: 4th round, 38th overall pick
- Playing career
- 1967–1979
Career highlights and awards
- ABA champion (1975)
- 7× ABA All-Star (1968–1970, 1972–1975)
- 4× All-ABA Second Team (1968–1970, 1974)
- ABA All-Rookie First Team (1968)
- ABA All-Time Team
- 2× Consensus second-team All-America (1966, 1967)
- 2× First-team All-SEC (1966, 1967)
- Second-team All-SEC (1965)
Career statistics
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967–68 | Kentucky (ABA) | 72 | - | 41.1 | .421 | .268 | .823 | 4.6 | 3.6 | - | - | 20.7 |
| 1968–69 | Kentucky (ABA) | 78 | - | 42.6* | .420 | .361 | .811 | 3.8 | 5.8 | - | - | 24.8 |
| 1969–70 | Kentucky (ABA) | 82 | - | 40.9 | .399 | .361 | .831 | 3.8 | 5.5 | - | - | 26.0 |
| 1970–71 | Kentucky (ABA) | 84 | - | 38.3 | .418 | .368 | .851 | 3.5 | 5.5 | - | - | 18.5 |
| 1971–72 | Kentucky (ABA) | 83 | - | 38.7 | .442 | .361 | .836 | 3.1 | 6.2 | - | - | 15.9 |
| 1972–73 | Kentucky (ABA) | 80 | - | 38.0 | .451 | .348 | .784 | 2.7 | 6.5 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 16.8 |
| 1973–74 | Kentucky (ABA) | 84 | - | 35.0 | .465 | .387* | .832 | 2.4 | 5.6 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 17.8 |
| 1974–75† | Kentucky (ABA) | 83 | - | 34.7 | .500 | .396 | .809 | 2.5 | 5.4 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 16.8 |
| 1975–76 | Kentucky (ABA) | 82 | - | 34.6 | .479 | .368 | .863 | 1.9 | 5.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 13.0 |
| 1976–77 | San Antonio | 80 | - | 20.4 | .460 | - | .744 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 6.6 |
| 1977–78 | San Antonio | 82 | - | 24.8 | .509 | - | .752 | 1.5 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 9.1 |
| 1978–79 | San Antonio | 70 | - | 10.9 | .490 | - | .744 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 3.9 |
| Career ABA | 728* | - | 38.1 | .439 | .358 | .826 | 3.1 | 5.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 18.9 | |
| Career NBA | 232 | - | 19.1 | .488 | .748 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 6.7 | ||
| Career Total | 960 | - | 33.5 | .444 | .358 | .820 | 2.6 | 4.9 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 15.9 |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Kentucky (ABA) | 5 | - | 44.8 | .442 | .405 | .839 | 4.8 | 4.6 | - | - | 26.6 |
| 1969 | Kentucky (ABA) | 7 | - | 46.6 | .357 | .291 | .870 | 4.3 | 4.0 | - | - | 22.3 |
| 1970 | Kentucky (ABA) | 12 | - | 43.8 | .369 | .329 | .774 | 3.8 | 6.8 | - | - | 17.7 |
| 1971 | Kentucky (ABA) | 19 | - | 43.6 | .385 | .319 | .742 | 4.1 | 9.4 | - | - | 16.9 |
| 1972 | Kentucky (ABA) | 6 | - | 42.3 | .420 | .478 | .625 | 3.2 | 7.5 | - | - | 13.2 |
| 1973 | Kentucky (ABA) | 12 | - | 34.8 | .516 | .455 | .700 | 2.1 | 3.3 | - | - | 13.4 |
| 1974 | Kentucky (ABA) | 8 | - | 28.6 | .483 | .500 | .778 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 13.4 |
| 1975† | Kentucky (ABA) | 15 | - | 40.3 | .509 | .385 | .868 | 2.4 | 7.5 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 16.9 |
| 1976 | Kentucky (ABA) | 10 | - | 39.3 | .519 | .500 | .900 | 1.3 | 7.7 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 16.0 |
| 1977 | San Antonio | 2 | - | 31.0 | .250 | - | 1.000 | 1.5 | 4.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 6.0 |
| 1978 | San Antonio | 6 | - | 21.5 | .459 | - | .250 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 5.8 |
| 1979 | San Antonio | 7 | - | 7.9 | .571 | - | .571 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.9 |
| Career ABA | 94 | - | 40.4 | .436 | .366 | .789 | 3.0 | 6.6 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 16.9 | |
| Career NBA | 15 | - | 16.4 | .433 | .600 | 1.0 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 4.5 | ||
| Career Total | 109 | - | 37.1 | .436 | .366 | .781 | 2.8 | 6.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 15.1 |
Per-game averages. † won an ABA or NBA championship · * led the league · ‡ league record (as marked).
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- Height
- 6′ 0″
- Weight
- 170 lb
- Position
- Point guard
- Jersey
- Not listed
- Country
- USA
- School / last affiliation
- Not listed
- Draft year
- 1967
- Draft pick
- Round 4 · Pick 38
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