Back لوي دامبير Arabic لوى دامبير ARZ Louie Dampier Spanish Louie Dampier French לואי דמפיר HE Louie Dampier Italian ルイー・ダンピアー Japanese Louie Dampier Polish Дампьер, Луи Russian 路易·丹皮尔 Chinese
 Dampier in 1979 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 20, 1944 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
| Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Listed weight | 170 lb (77 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Southport (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| College | Kentucky (1964–1967) |
| NBA draft | 1967: 4th round, 38th overall pick |
| Selected by the Cincinnati Royals | |
| Playing career | 1967–1979 |
| Position | Point guard |
| Number | 10 |
| Career history | |
| 1967–1976 | Kentucky Colonels |
| 1976–1979 | San Antonio Spurs |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Career ABA and NBA statistics | |
| Points | 15,279 (15.9 ppg) |
| Rebounds | 2,543 (2.6 rpg) |
| Assists | 4,687 (4.9 apg) |
| Stats at NBA.com | |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
| Basketball Hall of Fame as player | |
Louis Dampier (born November 20, 1944) is an American retired professional basketball player.
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 had played in the playoff in all nine ABA years, 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 also 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.