Chad Kinch Explained

Chad Kinch
Height Ft:6
Height In:4
Weight Lb:190
Birth Date:22 May 1958
Birth Place:Perth Amboy, New Jersey
Death Place:Carteret, New Jersey
Nationality:American
High School:Perth Amboy
(Perth Amboy, New Jersey)
College:Charlotte (1976–1980)
Draft Year:1980
Draft Round:1
Draft Pick:22
Draft Team:Cleveland Cavaliers
Career Start:1980
Career End:1981
Career Number:20, 21
Career Position:Point guard / shooting guard
Team1:Cleveland Cavaliers
Team2:Dallas Mavericks
Highlights:
  • 3× First-team All-Sun Belt (1978–1980)

Chadwick Oliver Kinch (22 May 1958  -) was an American professional basketball player. He was a 6'4" (1.93 m) 190 lb (86 kg) shooting guard and played collegiately at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte after starring at Perth Amboy High School in Perth Amboy, New Jersey,[1] his place of birth.

He was selected with the 22nd pick in the first round of the 1980 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers.[2] He spent his only NBA season (1980–81) split between the Cavaliers and the Dallas Mavericks. The Cavs traded Kinch, along with a 1985 first-round draft choice, to the Mavericks in exchange for Geoff Huston and a 1983 third-round draft choice on February 7, 1981.[2] Kinch averaged 2.9 points per game in his only season in the NBA.

The tragic loss of his brother, Raymond, in a house fire reportedly had a profound effect on Kinch and impacted his NBA career. After leaving the NBA and starting a family, he descended further into a fierce drug habit, eventually contracting HIV.[3] Kinch died of AIDS-related complications in 1994,[4] aged 35, at his home in Carteret, New Jersey.[1] [3]

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Notes and References

  1. Staff. Chad Kinch, 35, Ex-Basketball Star, The New York Times, April 8, 1994. Accessed February 28, 2011. "CARTERET, N.J., April 7— Chad Kinch, a former basketball star at Perth Amboy High School in New Jersey and the Cleveland Cavaliers' No. 1 draft choice in 1980, died at home on Sunday. He was 35."
  2. Web site: Cavaliers All-Time Roster . .  ; retrieved June 26, 2007
  3. https://greensboro.com/glory-days-died-too-soon-then-kinch-did-life-never-lived-up-to-that-moment/article_f5341329-fbec-57be-b7fa-51b3f8b65e9b.html Araton, Harvey (1994). "Glory Days Died Too Soon; Then Kinch Did(.) Life Never Lived Up to that Moment in the Sun" New York Times 18 April 1994.
  4. https://www.espn.com/gen/s/2001/1105/1273720.html Still stunning the world 10 years later