Wesley Correa

Did You Know?

• Correa set the LPB scoring record in 1990 with a 60-point game against the Peñuelas Caribes.
• In Game Five of the 1987 BSN Finals, Correa hit a buzzer-beating shot with the score tied at 99 to give the Titanes a 101-99 win and a 3-2 series lead.
• WAPA-TV announcer Manolo Rivera Morales would exclaim 'Wes! Wes! Wes!' when Correa had the ball during televised Titanes games.
• Correa was suspended for the entire 1988 BSN season after failing a doping test prior to the 1987 Pan American Games.

Basketball career

Correa debuted in the BSN during the 1981 season with the Morovis Titans, appearing in 31 of 33 games and recording 535 points, 227 rebounds, and 73 assists (17.3 points, 7.3 rebounds, 2.4 assists per game). The following year he played 27 games, scoring 493 points (18.3 per game) but saw his rebounding and assist averages drop to 5.6 and 1.4, respectively. Beginning in 1983, Correa embarked on a ten-season stretch (excluding 1988) in which he averaged at least 20 points per game; that year he scored 751 points (22.8 per game) with 246 rebounds and 59 assists while playing all 33 games for the first time. In 1984 he averaged 23.5 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists. The 1985 season saw averages of 21.2 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.3 assists. Correa surpassed 800 points in a season for the first time in 1986, finishing with 837 points and averages of 27.9 points, 7.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists. His 1987 campaign was even stronger: 892 points, 267 rebounds and 97 assists, yielding averages of 29.7 points, 8.9 rebounds and 3.2 assists. That year, alongside Mario Butler, Mario Sanchez and Grimaldi Vidot, Correa helped the Titanes capture their first and only BSN national championship by defeating the defending champion Polluelos de Aibonito in a seven-game finals series. In Game Five, with the score tied at 99, Correa hit a buzzer-beating shot to give Morovis a 101-99 win and a 3-2 series lead.

Career resume

Over 441 BSN games, Correa accumulated 9,870 points, 2,958 rebounds and 938 assists, averaging 22.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game. He shot 49% from the field, 40% from three-point range and 87% from the free-throw line. Correa won one BSN championship, in 1987. During the mid-to-late 1980s he was a regular on the Puerto Rico national team alongside Federico Lopez, Georgie Torres, Mario Morales, Angelo Cruz and Piculin Ortiz.

Later years

In late October 2018, Correa was stabbed in New York City, New York, in an attack that also killed his 35-year-old son, Hasson Correa. Correa spent several days in a New York hospital and was unaware of his son's fate for some time. Correa subsequently experienced depression and physical problems related to his stab wound.