Cameron Wells

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Basketball player
Cameron Wells
Wells in 2019
Player information
Nickname Cameron "Cam" Wells
birthday September 23, 1988
place of birth Houston , United States
size 186 cm
position Point guard
college The Citadel
Clubs as active
2007–2011 The Citadel ( NCAA ) 2011–2012 Landstede Basketball Zwolle 2012 Milwaukee Bucks ( NBA Summer League ) 2012–2013 Walter Tigers Tübingen 2014–2017 Gießen 46ers 2017–2018 Pallacanestro Varese 2018–2020 S.Oliver Würzburg Since 2020 BCM GravelinesUnited StatesUnited States
NetherlandsNetherlands
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GermanyGermany
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ItalyItaly
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FranceFrance

Cameron Wells (born September 23, 1988 in Houston , Texas ) is an American basketball player .

career

The versatile point guard went to his college time for the military college The Citadel in the Southern Conference of the NCAA on basket hunt. His first professional contract was in the 2011/12 season with Landstede Basketball Zwolle in the first Dutch league. There he was the team's best basket hunter with an average of 14 points.

After an interlude in the NBA summer league 2012, the 186 cm tall Wells ended up in the basketball league with the Walter Tigers from Tübingen . In 29 missions, “Cam” achieved an average of 6 points.

In the summer of 2013, Wells sustained a knee injury. He then suspended the game for a year. On June 24, 2014, the second division Gießen 46ers signed the then 26-year-old for a year. The Hessian club was promoted to the basketball Bundesliga again in spring 2015. Since the contract with Wells was extended, it was also for the American after two years the return to the top German division. Before the start of his third season with the Giessen 46ers, Wells was named captain. At the beginning of 2017, he was appointed to the BBL Allstar selection of the best foreign Bundesliga players. With 14 points and 4.1 assists on average, Wells advanced to become the best point collector and template provider in Central Hesse in the 2016/17 season.

In February 2017, Wells and his teammate Marco Völler discovered a prohibited substance during a doping test. According to the anti-doping agency of the German Basketball Federation , the offense was caused by the intake of contaminated food supplements. Both players were banned for three months after a hearing in early June 2017.

After two years in the German upper house of basketball, Wells moved to the Italian first division ( Varese ). In 23 league games for Varese, the American scored an average of 11.3 points per encounter and statistically prepared 3.5 basket hits for his fellow men. In 2018 he moved to the Bundesliga club Würzburg . In the 2019/20 season he was appointed captain of the Würzburg team by coach Denis Wucherer . Because of his role as playmaker and head of the team on the field, he was nicknamed "The General" in Würzburg. In the 2018/19 game year he reached the final of the FIBA Europe Cup with the team , but lost there against Dinamo Sassari (Italy). Wells was particularly convincing in Würzburg in 2019/20 and achieved 16.2 points and 5.5 assists per game in the Bundesliga.

In June 2020, the French first division club BCM Gravelines announced the commitment of the American.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ easyCredit BBL - Cameron Wells - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga website
  2. ↑ giessen46ers.de
  3. ↑ Giessen General
  4. ↑ welt.de
  5. ↑ LEGABASKET SERIE A LEGABASKET SERIE A. Accessed June 14, 2020 .
  6. ↑ How the captain wants to lead the baskets out of the crisis. February 21, 2020, accessed June 14, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Dinamo Sassari win maiden FIBA ​​Europe Cup title. Retrieved June 14, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ 27461 Cameron WELLS. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved June 14, 2020 .
  9. ^ BCM - Site Officiel du BCM Gravelines - Dunkerque. Retrieved June 14, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Wells, Cameron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas