Arvid Kramer

Arvid Kramer
Player information
birthday	October 2, 1956
place of birth	Fulda (MN), USA
size	206 cm
position	center
college	Augustana College ( SD )
NBA draft	1979 , 45. Pick, Utah Jazz
Clubs as active
1975–1979 Augustana Vikings ( NCAA II) 1979–1980 Anchorage Northern Knights ( CBA ) 1980 Denver Nuggets 1980–1981 Antonini Siena 1981–1982 CRO Lyon Basket 1982–1983 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1985–1987 TuS 1882 Opladen 1987–1997 Godesberger TV / Telekom Bonn 00000

Arvid Kramer (born October 2, 1956 in Fulda , Minnesota ) is a former American basketball player and sports manager , who has also had German citizenship since 1993 .

NBA draft

Kramer is a bit of a curiosity in the annals of the NBA , as he was selected twice in an expansion draft by a new franchise team, but never played for those teams. In 1979 he was initially selected in the regular draft of the Utah Jazz, but played only eight games for the Denver Nuggets in the following season. The Dallas Mavericks selected him for the 1980 Expansion Draft . But he didn't play for the Mavericks, but moved to Europe. When the league expanded in 1988, the Miami Heat chose him because the Mavericks still owned the NBA rights to Kramer, although he did not play for the Mavericks. The Heat were apparently more interested in the pick offered by the Mavericks for the regular draft.

Careers in Europe

In 1980 Kramer played for Siena in Italy, but they were relegated from Lega Basket Serie A that season . Via a station in France he came to Germany to the multiple German champions TuS Bayer 04 from Leverkusen in the 1982/83 season. He then returned to the United States, but after two years Kramer, who was married to a German, went back to the Rhineland and played for TuS 1882 in the Leverkusen district of Opladen in the 2nd basketball league . Two years later he went again in 1987, he went one class lower to the regional league team Godesberger TV, with whom he was promoted directly to the second division, and two years later in the 1989/90 season even in the first basketball league by one occupied space in the BBL. In the 1990/91 season , however, they immediately rose again. On the part of Godesberger TV, Kramer was then involved in merging with Fortuna Bonn to form BG Bonn 92 , whose professional team was later renamed Telekom Baskets Bonn after Deutsche Telekom joined as a sponsor . With the new club succeeded unbeaten in the 1995/96 season, the renewed promotion to the BBL. In his last season as an active player at the age of 40, the newly promoted player made it into the final of the German championship.

Kramer then only worked as a sports manager for the club and was able to help establish it in the BBL. In his time, except for the 1997/98 season , when they were eliminated in the quarter-finals as runner-up in the main round, they always made it to the play-off semi-finals of the four best German basketball teams. In 2004 Kramer left the club and returned to the USA.

family

Kramer runs a basketball school in San Diego , where his children also spent a large part of their school days. His son Josh (born November 24, 1984 ) first studied in Worcester (Massachusetts) at the NCAA Division I College of the Holy Cross , before continuing his studies at Concordia University in Irvine near San Diego after a year College basketball team playing in the NAIA . Josh's brother Dennis Kramer, who was eight years younger than him, was much more successful as a basketball player and began a professional career in Germany as a former German junior selection player after studying at the University of San Diego , where he played for the toreros in NCAA Division I.

Web links

• Mavs Basketball - Homepage of Arvid Kramer's basketball school (English)
• Arvid Kramer back to the USA - Press release from Telekom Baskets Bonn of July 7, 2004, accessed on February 12, 2015.
• Even trainers are bribed from time to time ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) - report by the Bonner Rundschau from August 10, 2002 about Kramer's work as a manager in the archive of Telekom Baskets Bonn
• Arvid Kramer - player profile on basketball-reference.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sam Goldaper: Miami Chooses 'Who?' First. In: New York Times . June 24, 1988, accessed November 29, 2009 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Whitelaw Reid: Road to NBA stardom could go through Europe. SignOnSanDiego.com , June 24, 2005, accessed November 29, 2009 .  
3. ↑ Mavs Basketball - Bios: Arvid Kramer. MavsBBall.com, accessed December 7, 2012 (English, portrait on self-published pages). 
4. ^ Josh Kramer Stats - Holy Cross Crusaders - College Basketball. (No longer available online.) Statsheet.com, formerly the original ; accessed on July 22, 2010 (English, player statistics).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.