Now, at 24, he is a middle school teacher in his hometown. He is also an unpaid assistant coach for a high school basketball team. He bowls in leagues three nights a week and occasionally plays bingo at Big Bucks Bingo. His wife, Heather, is a bank teller. They have two children and live in a double-wide trailer, and together they wonder how much appetite they have for uprooting their lives again so Pittsnogle can have one more chance at a basketball career.
Pittsnogle was never drafted by the NBA, and has spent time over the last few years in the CBA, the NBDL, and various other leagues. At the 2006 NCAA Tournament in Detroit, Michigan at the Palace of Auburn Hills during a late free throw shot I even shouted out my sports love for Pittsnogle as you can see on the Youtube video below.
Yes I was intoxicated by nonetheless you get the respect I had for a player as uniquely odd as Kevin Pittsnogle from West Virginia.
I still have sports love for Pittsnogle as he was one of a kind. What other goofy looking tattooed up big man could hit the three and big shots better than Pittsnogle? He was a redneck hero unmatched in the state of West Virginia. Now that he lives in a double-wide and has ballooned to 300 pounds only furthers his legend. Pittsnogle's story would make any West Virginian happy to know they could almost make a mark in the NBA before moving into their double-wide trailer.
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