"He estimates his speech, which he's had written for months, will last about three minutes. We're committed to doing so many other things, press conferences, interviews. Also receive our alphabetical and induction year Basketball Hall of Fame checklists Success! Dampier was there, even at 4 or 5 years old, to watch basketball. They each averaged at least 20 points per game. "He also is one that comes to mind when you think of ABA players that should have gone in the Hall of Fame a long time ago. SUMMARY. The phone call isn't one a guy would want to miss, but somehow Louie Dampier missed it. College: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 1967. It was the official call that he would be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. High School: Southport 1963. "I became introverted and it changed my personality quite a bit. He was also one of the first volume three-point shooters in the ABA.
So, the two became addicted to the soap opera "Days of Our Lives. "They would sit in the hotel room, watch the show and order food in, usually cheeseburgers and fries. The two met when Dampier was a senior, Issel a freshman, at the University of Kentucky playing for Adolph Rupp.Under Rupp, Dampier, Tommy Kron and Pat Riley led the Wildcats to the 1966 NCAA championship game, where they lost to Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso). Giving a short speech might be some relief. "That doesn't mean he wasn't confident when he played. "Dampier, who capped his career playing three years for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs after the ABA dissolved, said he's heard that from people time and again. He looked up to Dampier, his basketball career running five years behind Dampier's. And Dampier was the baby – by a long shot. His mother was dead. Dampier set a sectional scoring record, 40 points in one game, and a tourney record, 114 points. That's what Dampier always wanted to be, ever since those days as a little boy watching the Southport High School team with his mom.He did it by battling through grief that most people watching him on the court never knew.And as he takes the stage to be inducted this weekend, the photos may show him smiling.But that doesn't mean Dampier has forgotten, that he won't be thinking of his mom, and why he made it to the Hall of Fame.Louie Dampier is one of 11 new members in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2015 that will be inducted at enshrinement ceremonies in Springfield, Mass. Louie Dampier was named a direct-elect member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. After his mom died, he started coming to Dampier's games. June 16, 2020. You should be in,' " he said. Dampier was filling the void left by his mother. After all, he knows Dampier better than anyone, except Dampier's wife of 32 years, Judy; his two children, Danielle and Nick; and stepson, Rob, who will all be at the enshrinement.Dampier picked Issel to be his Hall of Fame presenter.
The ABA wasn't on TV. "Relief because Dampier is in control of that. He worked a lot. "One hundred percent, he is the ABA player that comes to mind when you think of the Hall of Fame," said Scott Tarter, a co-founder of Dropping Dimes Foundation, an Indianapolis-based non-profit that helps struggling former ABA players. "He's pretty much of an introvert. "It's not so much that," he said. The phone call isn't one a guy would want to miss, but somehow Louie Dampier missed it. Game Logs. "That's where I started admiring players when I watched the guys play varsity," he said. He spent his entire ABA career with the Colonels, finishing as the league's all-time leader in points (13,726), assists (4,044), games (728), 3-pointers (794) and minutes (27,770). We would stay in our rooms and watch TV. His mom, a woman he was intensely close to, was gone.