Keith Edmonson played at Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, TX, where he scored 2,389 points and pulled down 1,197 rebounds from 1975 to 1978. He was a three-year starter for Coach Dan Sponholtz. He averaged 17.2 points and 10 rebounds per game as a sophomore. He averaged 27.4 points and 14 rebounds per game as a junior and 27.6 points and 11 rebounds per game as a Senior.
During his career at MacArthur High School, he was named All-State twice, District MVP twice, and an All-American his senior year.
After High School, he attended Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana where he was a part of the Purdue Boilermakers team that reached the 1980 NCAA Final Four. He averaged 21.3 points per game in his senior year.
He was selected 10th overall in the 1st Round of the 1982 NBA Draft, by the Atlanta Hawks. He averaged 6 points per game in an 87-game NBA career, playing with the Atlanta Hawks, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Denver Nuggets.
He was inducted into the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023 on May 20, 2023, as part of the Annual Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Clinic in San Antonio, TX.
