Erick Dampier started his competitive career at Lawrence County High School in Monticello, Mississippi, winning two state championships. After that Dampier moved to the college choosing Mississippi State University, but he played only 2 years and in 1996 NBA was drafted by Indian a Pacers as the tenth overall pick. At Indiana in his rookie season he played 72 games, starting 21 of them scoring an averages of 5.1 points and 4.1 rebounds per game. In 1997 Dumpier and Duane Ferrell were traded to the Golden State Warriors for Chris Mullin. At Golden State Dumpier played 7 years as starting center of the team.His best season was in 2003/04, the center of the Warriors finished the season with an averages of 12.3 points, 12 rebounds and 1.85 blocks per game.

After the years with Golden State, Dumpier played 6 years with Dallas Mavericks, until 2010, starting in his first season playing 59 games (56 as starter), collecting an averages of 9.2 points, 8.5 rebounds and 1.85 blocks per game. http://www.nba.com/playerfile/erick_dampier/career_stats.html

Erick Dumpier in 2010 is playing for the Dallas Mavericks, his actual salary is $12,115,500. In the current season (2010) he collected an averages of 6 points, 7.4 rebounds, 1.5 blocks in 25.1 minutes per game. He played 54 games (46 as starter). Erick Dampier scored just 4 points but got 11 rebounds in a loss to the Orlando Magic on 04/01/2010. He is under his normal average in this part of the season 2010, on 04/10 he made 3 blocks, 7 points and 6 rebound in one of the few good performance in th elast 10 games of this season. http://www.cbssports.com/nba/players/playerpage/6531/erick-dampier Dampier is averaging only 2.8 points and 5 boards in the last five games.