Hardly anyone who knew Terry Porter during his high school days figured he would spend any time in the National Basketball Association.

The skinny kid at Milwaukee South Division was just another decent player, one who might have gone completely unnoticed if Dick Bennett had stayed home instead of deciding to scout a WIAA tournament game between Cudahy and South Division one night in 1981.

On that fateful night, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point coach was sizing up a prospect from Cudahy when his wife, Anne, turned to him.

"She said, 'I don't know what guy you're looking at, but you better start looking at No. 30 on the white team,' " Bennett recalled, referring to South's uniform color. "When she said that, I started watching Terry.

"Terry's name was not being bandied around, and he fouled out in the game (his last high school game) and only had seven points. But I loved the way he handled 'em. Remember, I'm recruiting a guy to Stevens Point, not to the NBA.

"The rest is history. We got him up right away for a visit, we got him to commit and his career just took off."