Cameron Long
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| Player information | ||
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| Full name | Cameron Scott Long | |
| Nickname | Cam | |
| birthday | December 30, 1988 (31 years and 246 days) | |
| place of birth | Palm Bay (FL), USA | |
| size | 193 cm | |
| position | Shooting Guard | |
| college | George Mason | |
| Club information | ||
| society | s.Oliver Baskets | |
| league | Basketball Bundesliga | |
| Jersey number | 20th | |
| Clubs as active | ||
2007–2011 George Mason Patriots ( NCAA ) 2011–2012 KK Šiauliai 2012–2013 Le Mans Sarthe Basket 2013–2014 ratiopharm Ulm 2015–2016 see Oliver Baskets   
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Cameron Scott "Cam" Long (born December 30, 1988 in Palm Bay , Florida ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Long became a professional in Europe, where, after stints in Lithuania and France in the basketball Bundesliga 2013/14, he played for the German first division club ratiopharm Ulm and switched to the s.Oliver Baskets in Würzburg for the 2015/16 season .
Career
After graduating from school in Woodbridge (Virginia) Long went to study at George Mason University in Fairfax (Virginia) , where he played for the university team Patriots from 2007 onwards in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) of the NCAA . In the very first season Long won together with, among others, Folarin Campbell , who later as a professional in the basketball league should play the CAA Championship Tournament, but different in the national NCAA finals in 2008 in the first round against the Fighting Irish of University of Notre Dame . After a first round defeat in the National Invitation Tournament in 2009 and participation in a less significant postseason tournament in 2010, they reached the second round in the NCAA finals in 2011, in which they were defeated by the Buckeyes of Ohio State University top-placed in their group . Long's teammate Luke Hancock then moved to the University of Louisville , where he was to win the finals with the Cardinal 2013 and was named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four .
After Long was not considered by any club in the highest endowed professional league NBA in the 2011 NBA draft , he finally signed his first professional contract with the club from the Lithuanian Šiauliai , with whom he played in both the national LKL and the Baltic Basketball League in the semi-finals retired from the award of the title. While they won a game nationally against Lietuvos rytas Vilnius in the semi-finals, they lost in the Final Four of the Baltic League 2011/12 in front of their own audience against the Lithuanian champion and defending champion Žalgiris Kaunas with 64: 117 and finished fourth. In the 2012/13 season Long played in the first French league LNB Pro A for runner-up MSB from Le Mans . There he was eliminated with the team in the European club competition Eurocup 2012/13 early in the first group phase. As the sixth-placed team in the main Pro A round, they also lost in the first play-off round of the championship against record champions ASVEL . For the basketball Bundesliga 2013/14 Long then got a contract from the German first division club ratiopharm from Ulm . In the Eurocup 2013/14 he moved this time to the round of 16 with this team, but in which they lost to Hapoel Jerusalem . In the Beko BBL-Pokal 2014 in their own hall they defeated the Bundesliga main round first Bayern Munich in the semifinals , but then lost in a new edition of the previous year's final against defending champion ALBA Berlin , who also took ratiopharm out of the race in the first play-off round threw for the championship title.
Web links
- easyCredit BBL - Cameron Long - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
- LONG, CAMERON - Profile on the ULEB website ( English )
- NN: 20 Cam Long. On: George Mason Athletics website; Washington, DC, undated 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019 (in English).
Individual evidence
- ^ NN: Baltic Basketball League BBL. Baltic League championship game: April 29, 2012. ( Memento of July 13, 2014 on Internet Archive ) Archived from EuroLeague website; Barcelona, July 12, 2014. Accessed February 23, 2019.
- ^ NN: Cam Long. on: Ligue Nationale de Basket website; Paris, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2019 (in French).
- ↑ Cameron Long occupies shooting guard position. ratiopharm Ulm : Basketball-Ulm.com, July 13, 2013, accessed on June 1, 2014 (media information).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Long, Cameron |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Long, Cameron Scott (full name); Long, Cam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palm Bay (Florida) , USA |