Magic and a few other Lakers are also accused of getting rid of Pat Riley as well. They didn't care for his 3 hours of intense practices between games with an 82 game season.
Originally Posted by Lucas McCain
Riles played college ball for the Baron of the Bluegrass himself, Adolph Rupp at UK. he and a great shooter named Louis Dampier who had a good career in the old ABA with the Kentucky Colonels played in the famous Texas Western game for the NCAA title, won of course by Texas Western now UTEP. UK's starters were all white TX Western's all black of course. if you ask Riles says the game was a fluke and UK would win the majority of times in say a 10 game series. Louie Dampier disagrees and says UK would be lucky to win 3 times out of ten. Texas Western's starters were simply that much more athletic than UK. here's the proof ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Joe_Hill
"In the first half, he stole the ball from both
Louie Dampier and
Tommy Kron twice within the span of a minute and converted both steals into easy layups"
he stole the ball from Dampier AGAIN right after that too. 3 times in the span of less than 2 minutes.
sports fans might recognize the guy Louie is driving past in an ABA game ... Dr. J ..
Dampier finished first all-time in the ABA in games (728), minutes (27,770), points scored (13,726) and assists (4,044).