Background
Hunter was born in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Les Hunter
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A 6"7" forward/center, Hunter attended Pearl High School and Loyola University Chicago.
Career
He played professionally in the National Basketball Association (National Basketball Association) and the American Basketball Association (American Bar Association). He and the other four Loyola starters played the entire game, without substitution. And a first-round Mideast Regional victory by Hunter and the Ramblers over Tennessee Technical, 111-42, remains a record margin of victory for an National Collegiate Athletic Association men"s basketball tournament game.
He was drafted by the Detroit Pistons in the 2nd round (11th pick overall) of the 1964 National Basketball Association Draft.
He played for one season (1964–1965) in the National Basketball Association with the Baltimore Bullets. He was drafted in the 1972 American Bar Association Draft.
Hunter spent six seasons (1967–1973) in the American Bar Association with the Minnesota Muskies, Miami Floridians, New Jersey Nets, Kentucky Colonels, and Memphis Tams. Hunter scored 5,735 points in his professional career and was a two-time American Bar Association All-Star.
He played in the first American Bar Association All-Star game in 1968 in Indianapolis.
After retiring from basketball, Hunter moved to Kansas City in 1976. He owned a restaurant for ten years and now works as an instructor helping students who did not graduate take online classes to complete high school.
Achievements
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On July 11, 2013, in the Oval Office of the White House, Hunter and former Loyola teammates John Egan, Jerry Harkness and Ron Miller met with President Barack Obama to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the school"s 1963 national championship. To date it remains the only National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I basketball championship won by a university from the state of Illinois. In September 2013, Harkness and the entire 1963 Loyola Ramblers National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship basketball team was inducted into the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame. The 1963 Loyola Ramblers were inducted in the College Basketball Hall of Fame in November 2013, making it the first team inducted into the Hall of Fame.
