Kevin Porter
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Kevin Porter (born April 17, 1950) is a retired American professional basketball player.
In four of those seasons, he spent ten seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and led the league in assists. Porter graduated from DuSable High School and later served as the point guard at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania.
As a member of the Baltimore/Capital/Washington Bullets, Detroit Pistons, and the New Jersey Nets, he spent ten seasons (1972-1981; 1982–1983) in the NBA.
Porter, one of the league's most versatile passers, led the league in both assists per game and total assists four times during his career.
Amateur career
Porter, a born and raised in Chicago, graduated from DuSable High School, earning a starting point guard position as a sophomore, averaging 15 ppg and 7 apg. In his junior (to 20.7 ppg, 9 apg), and senior seasons (22.9 ppg, 13 apg), he received All-City and All-Area recognition in 1968. Porter won the Chicago Daily News Christmas Holiday Tournament Championship last year.
Porter later attended Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, where he also played competitively. Porter had a fruitful career at Saint Francis, scoring 1,766 points in his career, with a high score of 24.9 ppg as a senior.
Professional career
Porter averaged 11.6 ppg, 8.81 apg, and earned four assist titles in his 11-year NBA career. “What always stood out about Kevin Porter was that he came first,” basketball historian Bijan Bayne said. His fame was harmed by his inability. But he had this characteristic yo-yo dribble as he surveyed with his head up, which was unusual before Magic. "I should have been remembered as someone with quickness and vision who orchestrated NBA games against history's top guards," Porter said. I had the ball to scorers. That's what kept me in the league for the long run.
Porter was the 39th overall pick in the 1972 NBA draft, selected by the Baltimore Bullets in the third round. With 319, he led the league in personal fouls in his second year. Although he was ranked 320 on the next year, he gained a starting role and won the first of four NBA assist titles (8.0 per game) in 1975. The Bullets made it to the NBA Finals, but the Golden State Warriors defeated them.
Porter was traded to the Detroit Pistons in late August 1975 for Dave Bing and a first round draft pick, which was used to select Tree Rollins. Porter suffered a knee injury in the first season with Detroit and played in only nineteen games. Porter, who was back in court for the 1976-77 Detroit Pistons season, feud with coach Herb Brown, telling a Detroit Free Press reporter, "I want out, not this." He isn't strong enough to say that the issue is both him and me, as well as I am. Nothing is going to be solved here. The tensions were chronicled in Sports Illustrated, but the Pistons escaped the season (44-38, 537), despite Brown and Porter's pitfalls, as well as others with Marvin "Bad News" Barnes, which PistonsPowered wrote about as "completely insane, most craziest in Pistons history. They won a lot of games but were simply dysfunctional." "If the Pistons were a TV mini-series, they would make Roots seem like Ding Dong School," John Papanek of Sports Illustrated (SI).
Porter's second round draft pick (used to select Terry Tyler) and a 1979 2nd round draft pick came to a close in his third season with the Pistons. Herb Brown was fired as well.
Porter was 29 assists in a game against the Rockets while playing with the Nets in 1978. In addition to his 2nd assist title (10.2 apg), he had 14 points and 5 rebounds in a season that culminated in his second appearance (10.2 apg). The per-game help record will stand until Scott Skiles tallied 30 assists on December 30, 1990. Porter also had a career high of 16.2 ppg for the Nets in 1977-78.
Porter was traded back to the Pistons, now led by coach Dick Vitale, in exchange for Eric Money after the season. He gained his third assist title - 13.4 apg, with some stunning 30 point-25 assist games on March 9, 1979. In addition, he was the first player to reach over 1,000 assists in a single season. It will be five years before another player has reached more than 1,000 assists. Porter appeared in the cult classic basketball film The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh in 1979 with Pistons teammates Bob Lanier, Eric Money, John Shumate, Chris Ford, and Leon Douglas.
Porter played for the Washington Bullets for 1979-80, becoming a veteran free agent with the Washington Bullets during that time. In 1980 (which ended up with Golden State, who selected Rickey Brown with that pick) and a 1982 first round pick (Used to select John Bagley) as compensation for his release. As the Bullets lost in the first round, Porter appeared in two playoff games and received nine points. He had 9.1 assists per game in the 2012 season, which was enough to win his final assist title. However, he snapped his Achilles tendon during training camp before the 1981 season, leaving him out of the 1981 season.
He only appeared in 11 games of the next season, with only 4.2 assists per game. He was waived by the Bullets on January 18, 1983. He had 5,314 career assists (good for 49th all time) and 7,645 career points, while still ranking 14th in career assists per game and 13th in assist percentage at 37 percent. Interestingly, he was one of the top-50 in career assist leaders (659). Despite leading the league in assists per game four times, he was never nominated to an All Star Game. Only five players have gained more assists titles than Porter, and all five of them are in the Hall of Fame (Stockton, Cousy, Robertson, Nash, and Kidd).
During the 1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference tournament, Porter competed in the Philippines for the fabled Toyota Super Corollas team in the Philippine Basketball Association as an import. In his first game against Tanduay Rhum on May 17, 1983, he scored 50 points on his debut in a 135-141 loss, but after eight games, he was suspended.
Post playing career
When Porter was on duty in the Philippines, the head coaching position at Saint Francis University became open, and Georgetown University coach John Thompson recommended Porter for the position. Porter took over as the St. Francis head coach on July 11, 1983. Porter's record as the St. Franics coach was 42-68 (.382)) during his four years as the St. Franics coach.
Porter later taught at Central State University, a historically black college in Ohio, and then returned to Chicago, where he fulfilled aspire to become an elementary physical education teacher, benefiting at-risk students with after-school programs. "I've been blessed." All I wanted was to be a fifth-grade teacher. That was my life. "I wanted to be a teacher."
Porter was inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1976, the Cambria County Sports Hall of Fame in 1984, and the Saint Francis Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003. Porter is retired and lives in Chicago.
Glenn Consor, the former Washington Wizards guard, apologised to current Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. after Porter shot the wrong idea that Porter Jr. was the son of Kevin Porter, the former Washington point guard, mistakenly believing he was the son of Porter Jr. Kevin Porter Jr.'s father was sentenced to first-degree murder in a 1993 shooting death of a 14-year-old teen, earning him a 4 1/2 years in prison. Porter Sr. died in 2004 after being shot in a South Seattle bar. When his father was killed, the Rockets' 4 year old boy was killed.