Brook Lopez

Brook Lopez
Player information
birthday	April 1, 1988
place of birth	Los Angeles , United States
size	213 cm
position	center
college	Stanford
NBA draft	2008 , 10th Pick , New Jersey Nets
Club information
society	Milwaukee Bucks
league	NBA
Jersey number	11
Clubs as active
2008–2017 New Jersey / Brooklyn Nets 2017–2018 Los Angeles Lakers Since 2018 Milwaukee Bucks 0

Brook Robert Lopez (born April 1, 1988 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American basketball player who has played in the NBA since 2008 and is currently under contract with the Milwaukee Bucks . His twin brother Robin Lopez also plays basketball in the NBA.

College career

Brook Lopez completed the 2007/08 season in the service of Stanford University with the Stanford Cardinal team . He was able to achieve an average of 19.3 points, 8.2 rebounds and 2.1 shot blocks per game. That season he was also elected to the First Team of the Pacific-10 Conference .

NBA career

In the 2008 NBA draft , he was selected 10th by the New Jersey Nets . In his first year he was able to achieve an average of 13.0 points, 8.1 rebounds and 1.8 shot blocks per game with an average playing time of 30.5 minutes . For these services he was appointed to the NBA All-Rookie First Team . In the following year he increased his values ​​to 18.8 points and 8.6 rebounds per game. But the team did not succeed. In the 2010/11 season Lopez scored 20.4 points and again led the team as the top scorer. Due to injuries, Lopez only played 5 games during the 2011-12 season .

In summer 2012, Lopez signed a 61 million US dollar -Vertrag, spread over four years. After the Nets moved to Brooklyn, Lopez was back on track. He completed 74 games and scored 19.2 points, 6.9 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game. With Brooklyn he reached the playoffs, but retired in the first round. Lopez was also called to replace the injured Rajon Rondo for the NBA All-Star Game . He scored 3 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists .

In mid-December 2013 Lopez broke his foot, which had already been injured in 2011, in the game against the Philadelphia 76ers and was injured for the remainder of the 2013/14 season. The 2014/15 season went better again, and he was able to complete 72 games for the Nets, achieving almost 18 points on average. With the Nets he reached the playoffs for the second time in his career after 2012, but was in the first round against the Atlanta Hawks over . After the season he signed a new contract with the Nets, having previously left the contract. The next two years were sporty but disastrous for the Nets. Lopez was the only bright spot and scored an average of 19 points and 7 rebounds on average. In April 2017 Lopez overtook Buck Williams as the most successful basket shooter in Nets history.

After nine years with the Nets, Lopez was transferred to the Los Angeles Lakers in June 2017 for D'Angelo Russell and Timofey Mozgov . With the athletically unsuccessful Lakers, he came in 74 season games on 13.0 points and 4.0 rebounds on average. At the end of the season he left the Lakers as a free agent and signed with the Milwaukee Bucks .

Web links

Commons : Brook Lopez  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Brook Lopez - player profile on NBA.com
• Brook Lopez - player profile on basketball-reference.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ College Statistics
2. ↑ Brooklyn Nets Re-Signs Lopez
3. ↑ - Short night for Net's Lopez
4. ↑ Player Signing Press Conference ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Brook Lopez passes Buck Williams as Nets' career scoring leader
6. ↑ BROOKLYN NETS ACQUIRE D'ANGELO RUSSELL AND TIMOFEY MOZGOV FROM LA LAKERS
7. ↑ Milwaukee Bucks Sign Brook Lopez