Kevin Porter (basketball, born 1950)

This article is about the former player. For the unrelated active player, see Kevin Porter Jr.

Kevin Porter
Personal information
Born (1950-04-17) April 17, 1950 (age 74)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Listed weight170 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High schoolDuSable (Chicago, Illinois)
CollegeSaint Francis (PA) (1968–1972)
NBA draft1972: 3rd round, 39th overall pick
Selected by the Baltimore Bullets
Playing career1972–1983
PositionPoint guard
Number10, 1
Coaching career1983–1987
Career history
As player:
1972–1975Baltimore / Capital / Washington Bullets
1975–1977Detroit Pistons
1977–1978New Jersey Nets
1978–1979Detroit Pistons
1979–1983Washington Bullets
1983Toyota Super Corollas
As coach:
1983–1987Saint Francis (PA)
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA playing statistics
Points7,645 (11.6 ppg)
Rebounds1,179 (1.8 rpg)
Assists5,314 (8.1 apg)
Stats at NBA.com Edit this at Wikidata
Stats at Basketball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Career coaching record
College42–68 (.382)

Kevin Porter (born April 17, 1950) is an American former professional basketball player. He played eleven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and led the league in assists four times in his pro career.[1]

Amateur career

Born and raised in Chicago, Porter graduated from DuSable High School, earning a starting point guard spot as a sophomore, averaging 15 ppg and 7 apg. Steady improvement in his junior (to 20.7 ppg, 9 apg) and senior seasons (22.9 ppg, 13 apg), earned him All-City and All-Area honors in 1968. Porter led DuSable to the last Chicago Daily News Christmas Holiday Tournament Championship.[2]

Porter then played collegiately at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania. Porter thrived at Saint Francis, scoring 1,766 points in his career, averaging 22.9 over four years, including 24.7 ppg as a senior.[3]

Professional career

Over an 11-year NBA career, Porter averaged 11.6 ppg, 8.1 apg, while winning four assist titles. Basketball historian Bijan Bayne said, “What always stood out about Kevin Porter is that he was pass-first, in an era of Pistol, Clyde, Pearl, Tiny, Westphal and Jo Jo. That watered down his star quality. But he had this signature high yo-yo dribble that was under supreme control, as he surveyed with his head up—unusual before Magic. He should be remembered as someone with quickness and vision who orchestrated NBA games against history’s premier guards.”[4] Porter himself added, "That's what I did. I got the ball to scorers. That's what kept me in the league that long."[5]

Baltimore / Capital / Washington Bullets (1972–1975)

In the 1972 NBA draft, Porter was the 39th overall pick, selected by the Baltimore Bullets in the third round. In his second year, he led the league in personal fouls with 319. While he received 320 the next year, he won a starting role and won the first of four NBA assist titles (8.0 per game) in 1975. The Bullets reached the NBA Finals, but were swept by the underdog Golden State Warriors.[6]

Detroit Pistons (1975–1977)

In late August 1975, Porter was traded to the Detroit Pistons for Dave Bing and a first round draft pick in 1977,[7] used to select Tree Rollins. Porter suffered a knee injury in the first season with Detroit and appeared in only nineteen games. Returning to the court for the 1976-77 Detroit Pistons season, Porter clashed with coach Herb Brown, telling a Detroit Free Press reporter, "Write this - I want out. He is not man enough to say that the problem is him and me — well, I am. Nothing is going to get solved here." Sports Illustrated covered the tension but the Pistons made the post-season (44–38, .537) despite challenges between Brown and Porter, as well as those with Marvin "Bad News" Barnes in a season PistonsPowered would describe as "absolutely insane, probably the craziest in Pistons history. They won a lot of games, but were completely dysfunctional."[8] John Papanek of Sports Illustrated (SI) would state, "if the Pistons were a TV mini-series, they would make Roots seem like Ding Dong School."[9][10][11]

New Jersey Nets (1977–1978)

In the early start of his third season with the Pistons, the tensions with Brown came to a head as Porter was traded with Howard Porter and cash to the New Jersey Nets for Al Skinner, a 1978 2nd round draft pick (used to select Terry Tyler) and a 1979 2nd round draft pick (used to select Tony Price). Herb Brown was fired as well.[12]

With New Jersey, on February 24, 1978, Porter had 29 assists in a game against the Rockets while with the Nets. He also had 14 points and 5 rebounds in a season that led to his 2nd assist title (10.2 apg). The per-game assist record would stand until Scott Skiles tallied 30 assists on December 30, 1990.[13] Porter also averaged a career high 16.2 ppg for the Nets in 1977–78.

Return to Detroit (1978–1979)

After the season, Porter was traded back to the Pistons, now led by coach Dick Vitale, in exchange for Eric Money. In that season, he won his third assist title - 13.4 apg, including a remarkable 30 point-25 assist game, on March 9, 1979.[14] Additionally he was the first player to record over 1,000 assists in a single season. It would be five years before another player would record over 1,000 assists.[15] Porter appeared as a member of the Detroit team in the cult classic basketball film The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh in 1979 alongside Pistons teammates Bob Lanier, Eric Money, John Shumate, Chris Ford, and Leon Douglas.[16]

Return to the Bullets (1979–1983)

After that season, Porter signed as a veteran free agent with the Washington Bullets for 1979–80. The Detroit Pistons received a first round draft pick 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 departure. Porter appeared in two playoff games that year and garnered nine assists as the Bullets fell in the first round. The following year, he had 9.1 assists per game, which was enough to win his final assist title. However, during training camp before the 1981 season, he snapped his Achilles tendon, missing all of that season.[17]

He only played 11 games of the next season, having only 4.2 assists per game. On January 18, 1983, he was waived by the Bullets. When he retired in 1983, he had accumulated 5,314 career assists (good for 49th all time) and 7,645 career points, while also being 14th all time in career assists per game and 13th in assist percentage at 37.5. Notably, of the top 50 in career assist leaders, he played the fewest games (659). Despite leading the league in assists per game four times, he was never selected to an All Star Game.[18] Only five players have won more assists titles than Porter, and all five of them are in the Hall of Fame (Stockton, Cousy, Robertson, Nash and Kidd).[1]

Toyota Super Corollas (1983)

In 1983, Porter played in the Philippines for the fabled Toyota Super Corollas team in the Philippine Basketball Association as an import during the 1983 PBA Reinforced Filipino Conference tournament. He scored 50 points in his debut on May 17, 1983, in a 135–141 loss to Tanduay Rhum, but was let go after eight games.[19]

Post playing career

While Porter was playing in the Philippines, the head coaching job at Saint Francis University became available and Georgetown University coach John Thompson recommended Porter for the job.[20] Porter took over as the St. Francis head coach on July 11, 1983.[20] During his four seasons as the St. Franics coach, Porter's record was 42-68 (.382).[21]

Porter then coached at Central State University, a historically black college in Ohio, and then returned to his hometown Chicago, fulfilling a dream to become an elementary physical education teacher, helping at-risk children with after school programs.[5] "I've been blessed. All I wanted was to be a fifth-grade teacher. That was my life. I wanted to be a teacher."[5]

Porter was inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1976,[2] the Cambria County Sports Hall of Fame in 1984[22] and the Saint Francis Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003.[23] Porter is retired and lives in Chicago.

In January 2022, Washington Wizards announcer Glenn Consor apologized to former Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. when he commented that Porter "like his dad, pulled the trigger right at the right time", after Porter made a key shot, under the mistaken belief that Porter Jr. was the son of Kevin Porter, the former Washington point guard. The father of Kevin Porter Jr., Bryan Kevin Porter Sr., pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in a shooting death of a 14-year-old girl in 1993 and was sentenced to 4+1⁄2 years in prison. Porter Sr. died in 2004 after being shot in a South Seattle bar. Porter Jr. was 4 years old when his father was killed.[24][25]

NBA player statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
 *  Led the league

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1972–73 Baltimore 71 – 17.1 .455 – .614 1.0 3.3 – – 6.6
1973–74 Capital 81 – 28.9 .478 – .723 2.2 5.8 1.2 0.1 14.0
1974–75 Washington 81 – 32.0 .491 – .704 1.9 8.0* 1.9 0.1 11.6
1975–76 Detroit 19 – 36.2 .421 – .750 2.3 10.2 1.8 0.2 12.6
1976–77 Detroit 81 – 26.1 .512 – .729 1.2 7.3 1.1 0.1 8.9
1977–78 Detroit 8 – 15.9 .452 – .692 1.9 4.5 0.6 0.0 4.6
1977–78 New Jersey 74 – 36.3 .470 – .765 2.7 10.8* 1.6 0.2 16.2
1978–79 Detroit 82 – 37.4 .481 – .722 2.5 13.4* 1.9 0.1 15.4
1979–80 Washington 70 – 21.3 .459 .000 .803 1.2 6.5 0.8 0.2 7.3
1980–81 Washington 81 – 31.8 .519 .250 .773 1.5 9.1* 1.4 0.1 13.4
1982–83 Washington 11 0 19.1 .525 – .833 0.5 4.2 0.9 0.0 4.3
Career 659 – 29.0 .483 .188 .737 1.8 8.1 1.4 0.1 11.6

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1973 Baltimore 4 – 10.3 .500 – – 0.5 2.3 – – 3.0
1974 Capital 7 – 27.9 .388 – .643 2.4 4.6 1.1 0.0 10.7
1975 Washington 17 – 36.8 .503 – .667 2.4 7.3 1.2 0.0 14.4
1977 Detroit 3 – 20.3 .357 – .667 2.0 5.7 0.3 0.0 5.3
1980 Washington 2 – 24.5 .438 .000 .400 1.0 4.5 1.5 0.0 8.0
Career 33 – 29.4 .463 .000 .649 2.1 5.8 1.1 0.0 11.0

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Kevin Porter Stats". Basketball-Reference.com.
  2. ^ a b "Basketball Museum of Illinois - Kevin Porter". basketballmuseumofillinois.com.
  3. ^ "Kevin Porter College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com.
  4. ^ "Kevin Porter: Unforgettable". SLAM. February 24, 2016.
  5. ^ a b c Schmitz, Brian. "Schmitz: Assisting others comes natural to ex-NBA guard Kevin Porter". orlandosentinel.com.
  6. ^ "Kevin Porter | National Basketball Retired Players Association". June 16, 2014.
  7. ^ "Bullets acquire Bing". Free-Lance Star. (Fredericksburg, Virginia). Associated Press. August 28, 1975. p. 8.
  8. ^ "Chevette to Corvette No. 25: The 1976-77 Detroit Pistons". November 9, 2011.
  9. ^ Papanek, John. "Moaning and winning in Motown". Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com.
  10. ^ "Chevette to Corvette No. 25: The 1976-77 Detroit Pistons". November 9, 2011.
  11. ^ David DuPree (January 23, 1977). "A Troubled Porter Returns to Centre". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
  12. ^ "Chevette to Corvette No. 33: The 1977-78 Detroit Pistons". October 28, 2011.
  13. ^ "Remembering the Greatest Unknown Passer in NBA History: Kevin Porter".
  14. ^ Boston Celtics at Detroit Pistons Box Score, March 9, 1979 | Basketball-Reference.com
  15. ^ Astramskas, David. "Remembering The Greatest Unknown Passer In NBA History: Kevin Porter". ballislife.com.
  16. ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079154/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1 [user-generated source]
  17. ^ The Lowdown: Kevin Porter. (October 6, 2012).
  18. ^ THE POINT GUARD THAT TIME FORGOT: THE STRANGE TRIP OF KEVIN PORTER
  19. ^ "Toyota Super Corollas players - FamousFix.com list". FamousFix.com.
  20. ^ a b "Ex-Bullet Porter Hired As Coach of St. Francis". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 17, 2020.
  21. ^ "Kevin Porter Coaching Record". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com.
  22. ^ "Kevin Porter".
  23. ^ "Kevin Porter (2003) - Saint Francis University Athletics Hall of Fame". Saint Francis University Athletics.
  24. ^ "Wizards announcer apologizes to Kevin Porter Jr. For mistaken allusion to player's dead father". USA Today.
  25. ^ "Wizards broadcaster makes shocking 'trigger' comment about Kevin Porter Jr.'s father, but was it a mix-up?".

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