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The following basketball players played with the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association from the team's founding in 1967 until the ABA-NBA merger in 1976. Henry Akin; Dan Anderson; Bird Averitt; Jimmie Baker; Howard Bayne; Orbie Bowling; Bill Bradley; Jim Bradley; Jim Caldwell; M. L. Carr; Darel Carrier; Bill Chamberlain ...
Coleman was voted to Kentucky Wesleyan's All-Century Team in 2010. [3] On May 25, 2018, an oversight was repaired when Coleman received his 1956 Kentucky Mr. Basketball award after speaking to players at a youth camp. [20] A portion of highway leading out of Wayland, Kentucky is named the "Kelly Coleman Highway." [12] [21]
Kentucky Colonels players played basketball for the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association from the league's founding in 1967 until the ABA–NBA merger in June 1976. Pages in category "Kentucky Colonels players"
Throughout its history, the Kentucky basketball program has featured many notable and successful players, both on the collegiate level and the professional level. Five players have been named national player of the year, with Anthony Davis in 2012 and Oscar Tshiebwe in 2022 being consensus selections.
James Lee (born January 17, 1956) is a retired American basketball player. He won an NCAA championship at the University of Kentucky and was a second-round draft pick in the 1978 NBA draft . Lee, a 6'5" swingman from Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky , played college basketball for his hometown Kentucky Wildcats.
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 played in the playoffs in all nine ABA years. His 728 games played in the ABA is the most for any player. [1]
However, Carrier originally played AAU basketball and later signed with and played for the Kentucky Colonels of the rival American Basketball Association (ABA). [ 1 ] Carrier was a three-time ABA All-Star with the Colonels (1968, 1969, 1970), teaming with Louie Dampier to form the most explosive backcourt in the ABA; in each of the league's ...
The Kentucky Colonels were a member of the American Basketball Association (ABA) for all of the league's nine years. The name is derived from the historic Kentucky Colonels . The Colonels won the most games and had the highest winning percentage of any franchise in the league's history, but the team did not join the National Basketball ...