page_title: Louie Dampier
hierarchical_section_title: Louie Dampier
caption_attribution_description: English: Louie Dampier in 1979
context_page_description: Louis Dampier 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, all with the Kentucky Colonels. 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 in the National Basketball Association with the San Antonio Spurs. Dampier was inducted as a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
context_section_description: 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. 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.
caption: Dampier in 1979
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