Brandon Adair

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Brandon Lee Adair (born September 14, 1985 ) is an American basketball referee and former player.

Life

Adair played basketball at Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach , Virginia . From 2004 to 2007, the 1.95 meter tall winger played for the Virginia Wesleyan College team in the third NCAA division. During this time he played a total of 122 games for the university team and scored an average of 17.7 points and 7.1 rebounds per encounter. In the 2005/06 game year he won the championship title in the third NCAA division with Virginia Wesleyan and was then named the league's player of the year by the Association of American Basketball Coaches (NABC). In the 2006/07 season, he just missed defending the title with the team when he was runner-up in the third NCAA division. With 2,100 points, he was number one on the Virginia Wesleyan College team's all-time basket hunter list when he left college in 2007. His 871 rebounds were also a career record for a player on the team. In 2013, Adair was inducted into the Hall of Fame at Virginia Wesleyan College.

In the summer break of 2007 Adair moved to KGJ Schwenningen in Germany and played for the regional league team until 2009. From 2010 to 2012 he was an assistant coach on the supervisory staff of his former college team at Virginia Wesleyan College. He embarked on a career as a referee, directed high school games, then in the university leagues Big South, CIAA and ODAC. From 2016 he was a referee in the NBA G-League , for the 2018/19 season he was accepted into the NBA  's referee line-up .

Footnotes

  1. Ed Miller: Whatever happened to ... the Virginia Wesleyan basketball team that won a national title? Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  2. Brandon Adair; Va. Wesleyan, 2006-07 Men's Basketball, Division III. In: NCAA: Archived Team-By-Team Final Statistics. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  3. Virginia Wesleyan: 2006 NCAA Division III Title. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  4. ^ Virginia Wesleyan: Individual Records. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  5. MVPs: 2013 Hall of Fame Inductees Named. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  6. Schwenningen is strengthened under the basket. In: schoenen-dunk.de. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  7. Young and the Youngsters / Schwenninger Panthers ... | Südkurier. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  8. Virginia Wesleyan. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  9. 11-12 Virginia Wesleyan Marlins. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
  10. Brandon Adair. In: NATIONAL BASKETBALL REFEREES ASSOCIATION. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .