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Ken Barlow (basketball)

Kenneth Barlow (born September 20, 1964) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Barlow attended Cathedral High School. As a senior, he led the school to the state semifinal game and received All-American honors. He accepted a basketball scholarship from the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana.

As a sophomore in the 1983–84 season, he contributed along with point guard David Rivers, to a runner-up finish at the 1984 National Invitation Tournament (NIT).

He served as team captain his final two seasons while helping the Irish to two NCAA tournament berths in 1985 and 1986. As a senior, he received the school's Student Athlete of the Year award.

In 2019, he was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.

Barlow was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers, in the first round (23rd overall) of the 1986 NBA draft. On June 16, he was traded along with shooting guard Mike McGee to the Atlanta Hawks, in exchange for the rights to small forward Billy Thompson and shooting guard Ron Kellogg.

On August 24, before the start of the Hawks training camp, he was driving a van in which former college teammate David Rivers was also traveling, returning to an apartment they shared after working a summer job with a caterer business, when the vehicle overturned and went into a ditch, after trying to avoid an oncoming car. Barlow had minor cuts, but Rivers suffered a life-threatening 15-inch abdominal cut, that he was able to recover from to play in 32 college games that season. On September 13, it was announced in the media, that he would play in Italy with the Tracer Milano instead of the NBA, where he averaged 16.9 points and 8.4 rebounds in 30 games.

In 1987, he played in Israel with the Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. On December 14, he was traded to the Golden State Warriors in exchange for center Chris Washburn.

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