Kevin Porter (basketball, born 1950)

Kevin Porter is an American former professional basketball player, born on 17 April 1950 and raised in Chicago, where he was a starting point guard at DuSable High School from his sophomore year. He scored 1,766 points in four years at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, and was taken 39th overall by the Baltimore Bullets in the 1972 NBA draft. Over eleven NBA seasons with the Bullets, the Detroit Pistons and the New Jersey Nets he averaged 11.6 points and 8.1 assists and won four assist titles, a pass-first guard who never played in an All-Star Game. He had 29 assists in a game for the Nets in 1978 and became the first player to record more than 1,000 assists in a season. After a short spell with the Toyota Super Corollas in the Philippines in 1983 he coached at Saint Francis and Central State and then returned to Chicago as an elementary physical education teacher.