{"id":12578,"date":"2023-01-31T06:40:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T06:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/former-utep-basketball-star-kent-lockhart-dies-at-59\/"},"modified":"2023-01-31T06:40:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T06:40:26","slug":"former-utep-basketball-star-kent-lockhart-dies-at-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/former-utep-basketball-star-kent-lockhart-dies-at-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UTEP basketball star Kent Lockhart dies at 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-authors\">\n<p>\t\tTo: <span>Sam Guzman<\/span>, <span>NBL<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPost: <time datetime=\"2023-01-30T23:40:26-07:00\">January 30, 2023 \/ 11:40 PM MST<\/time><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tHas been updated: <time datetime=\"2023-01-30T23:40:28-07:00\">January 30, 2023 \/ 11:40 PM MST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>El Paso, Texas (KTSM) \u2013 Former UTEP basketball star Kent Lockhart passed away on January 28 at the age of 59.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our condolences to the friends and family of former miner Kent Lockhart who passed away this weekend. He played from his 1981 to his &#8217;85 and ranks 10th in UTEP all-time in assists and 14th in minutes played. 972 career points, 349 rebounds and 279 assists. Once you become a minor, you will forever be a minor. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ltRiYMj3kA\">pic.twitter.com\/ltRiYMj3kA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UTEP Men&#8217;s Basketball (@UTEPMBB) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UTEPMBB\/status\/1620113917153509377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">January 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Lockhart played for UTEP from 1981-1985. These teams were coached by the legendary Don Haskins. Lockhart played in two NCAA Tournaments with his UTEP. Lockhart ranks UTEP 10th in assists and 14th in minutes played. He has 972 points, 349 rebounds and 279 assists.<\/p>\n<p>After his college career, Lockhart was selected 119th overall in the 1985 NBA Draft by the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>It was in Australia and New Zealand&#8217;s preeminent professional men&#8217;s basketball league, the National Basketball League (NBL), that Lockhart became a professional basketball star. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vale Kent Lockhart. <\/p>\n<p>The NBL mourns the passing of beloved player Kent Lockhart, who had a major impact on his three seasons with the Eastside Specters (1989-1991).<\/p>\n<p>My deepest condolences to the Lockhart family during this difficult time. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tsnsD9RgwV\">pic.twitter.com\/tsnsD9RgwV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBL (@NBL) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBL\/status\/1619486980462739456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">January 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Lockhart played three seasons with the Eastside Specters from 1989 to 1991, averaging 24.3 points, 6.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.5 steals. He is an incredible shooter and in the NBL he appeared in 81 games with a field goal percentage he made 51%. Lockhart scored a career-high 47 points against Newcastle&#8217;s Falcons in round 18 of 1989. He also played a starring role in Spector&#8217;s run into his NBL Grand Final series against Perth in 1991.  1989, 1990 All NBL second team.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiZWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lmt0c20uY29tL3Nwb3J0cy9jb2xsZWdlLXNwb3J0cy91dGVwL2Zvcm1lci11dGVwLWJhc2tldGJhbGwtc3Rhci1rZW50LWxvY2toYXJ0LWRlYWQtYXQtNTkv0gFpaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cua3RzbS5jb20vc3BvcnRzL2NvbGxlZ2Utc3BvcnRzL3V0ZXAvZm9ybWVyLXV0ZXAtYmFza2V0YmFsbC1zdGFyLWtlbnQtbG9ja2hhcnQtZGVhZC1hdC01OS9hbXAv?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] To: Sam Guzman, NBL Post: January 30, 2023 \/ 11:40 PM MST Has been updated: January 30, 2023 \/ 11:40 PM MST El Paso,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/LOCKHART-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}