"Rain Man" Camp is a famous dunk in NBA history. He didn't have the grace of Jordan, the flamboyance of Carter, the gliding of Dr. J. He didn't have, but his dunk was full of strength, passionate, and as fast as a black lightning bolt.
Kemp university studied in kentucky, a basketball school, but he was expelled from school for theft, once transferred to a vocational school, could not play regular basketball games, and finally he also participated in the draft as a high school student. Kemp was extremely talented and physically advanced in the eyes of scouts at the time, but these off-court factors made the general manager of the NBA team dare not risk choosing him until the Seattle Supersonics selected him with the seventeenth pick in the first round.
His time at the Supersonic was the pinnacle of his career, with five All-Star starts and three all-Season Second Team selections during his eight years of playing. He teamed up with "Glove" Gary Payton to create the strongest Seattle Knights in the Western Division.
In the 93-94 season, the Supersonics recorded a record 63 wins and 19 losses, ending with the first place in the West, they thought they were vying for the championship, but they were stubbornly resisted by the eighth-place Nuggets, under the ruthless block of "Uncle Mu" Dekembe Mutombo, the Denver Nuggets defeated the First Seattle Supersonics in the West 3-2, achieving the birth of the first black eight miracle in NBA history. The next season, they once again won 57-25, but were eliminated by the Lakers in the first round, and in this series, Kemp averaged 24.8 points and 12 rebounds per game.
It is said that after two or three years, the supersonics in the third year won 64 games and set a new team record. Their playoff trip was full of gold, they eliminated the Kings in the first round, the defending champion Houston Rockets in the second round, and the Western Conference finals helped the team eliminate the Jazz 4-3 to the Finals with Kemp's final block Carl Malone. Some are on the move, but unfortunately they met the Bulls, who led Michael Jordan, who lost 72-10, 2-4, which was Kemp's closest to the championship...
In the final season of supersonics, Kemp still led the supersonics to a 57-25 record, and after eliminating the Suns in the first round of the playoffs, he lost 3-4 to the Houston Rockets to stop the Western Conference semifinals. After that, Kemp's brilliant career also began to make waves, he asked for a big contract with the Supersonics, and after unsuccessful, he missed training for consecutive years, and finally parted ways with the team.
In the 1997–98 season, he signed to the Cavaliers on a seven-year, $107 million contract and started a new team, a new life, and he played for the Cavaliers for a total of three years, during which he became the first All-Star starter in Cavaliers history. In his first year of playoffs, he was second only to Michael Jordan with a 26.0 points per game, which was his peak.
In the last three years of his career, Kemp let him know about the fall, which may be a matter of a few days, laziness, drug addiction made him gradually depressed, and his weight began to grow rapidly. In the 2000-01 season, Kemp moved to the Blazers, by which time Kemp was too fat to touch the basket, and in the 2002-03 season, Kemp joined the Magic, but he could not return to his peak form, averaging 6.8 points and 5.7 rebounds per game. At the end of the season, Kemp chose to retire. After retiring, Kemp was eager to return to the NBA. In April 2006, Kemp was given a trial for the Mavericks, but he did not appear on the day of the trial. Six months later, Kemp was absent from the trial that the Bulls had arranged for him. At this point, there are no more "rain people" in the alliance.
"Kemp is a better fit to be a brother than a teammate," Payton once said. Kemp is very powerful, and his nickname for Rain Man is derived from the Rain Man homophone Reign Man (ruler). But he has too many off-court factors, such as when Kemp was with the Cavaliers, he was often late, with a variety of excuses. At one point he gave the excuse of "My puppy is asleep in my car and I have to wait for it to wake up and feed it." "The team delayed the flight as a result. At the end of his career, he was also banned from the league and the team many times for drug use, he was like this, as a friend, he would insert a knife for you, but the team, he did not care, lacked the responsibility and responsibility as a team member.
On November 5, 2006, the Seattle SuperSonics announced at halftime that Kemp and Ray Allen, Gary Payton, Lenny Wilkens, Rashad Lewis and other 16 were selected for the Seattle SuperSonic 40th Anniversary Team, which was applauded and cheered by all the fans.