Charles Lee (basketball player)

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Basketball player
Charles Lee
Player information
birthday November 11, 1984 (35 years 294 days)
place of birth Washington, DC, USA
size 193 cm
position Shooting Guard
college Bucknell
Clubs as active
2003–2006 Bucknell Bison ( NCAA ) 2006–2007 Hapoel Gilboa Afula 2007–2008 RBC Verviers-Pepinster 2008–2009 BG 74 Göttingen 2009–2010 Artland DragonsUnited StatesUnited States
IsraelIsrael
BelgiumBelgium
GermanyGermany
GermanyGermany
Clubs as coaches
2012–2014 Bucknell Bison ( AC ) 2014–2018 Atlanta Hawks ( AC ) Since 2018 Milwaukee Bucks ( AC ) United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
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Charles Lee (born November 11, 1984 in Washington, DC ) is a retired American basketball player and coach. His last two seasons as a professional he played in the German basketball league until 2010 . After ending his career as a professional athlete at the age of 26, he initially worked for a bank for two years before returning to Bucknell University as an assistant coach for the basketball team, for which he was already an active player during his studies.

Career

Lee began his career in the high school team Bison of Bucknell University in the National Collegiate Athletic Association , where he in the Patriot League NCAA in 2006 and the "Player of the Year" ( German  Player of the Year was named) and German with the later national team Christopher McNaughton played together. Unusually, economics student Lee was one of the few starting five players on an NCAA Division I team to not have a full-time athletic scholarship, so commentators also ranked him among the best basketball-playing non-scholars in the NCAA. After he was not selected in the NBA Draft , he was allowed to present himself in the NBA Summer League with the San Antonio Spurs, which ultimately did not sign him for the season squad.

Lee therefore moved across the Atlantic in 2006 and played in Israel for the syndicate of Hapoel Gilboa and Afula. After one season he moved to Belgium to the Royal Basket Club from Pepinster , before he was signed in 2008 by the BG 74 from Göttingen for the German BBL. Before his former team-mate from his student days Chris McNaughton also moved to Göttingen, Lee signed a contract with league competitor Artland Dragons . After that one-year contract ended, Lee retired as a professional athlete and was hired as a trainee at Merrill Lynch before working as a trader for the bank. After two years he ended this engagement and became assistant coach of the men's basketball team at his former university .

Between 2014 and 2018, Lee was assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks and moved to the Milwaukee Bucks with head coach Mike Budenholzer in the 2018/19 season . In 2017, his alma mater accepted him into their university Hall of Fame.

Web links

  • Charles Lee at: Sports Reference website; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2019. Retrieved February 26, 2019 (in English).
  • Charles Lee at: RealGM website; Marion, IL, 2000-2019. Retrieved February 26, 2019 (in English).
  • easyCredit BBL - Charles Lee - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thayer Evans: No Free Ride for Lee, Just the Ride of His Life. New York Times , March 18, 2006, accessed November 30, 2012 .
  2. ^ NN: Former Bison Hoops Star Charles Lee Returning to Bucknell as Assistant Coach. On: Bucknell University Athletics website; Lewisburg, PA, June 25, 2012. Retrieved February 26, 2019 (in English).
  3. ^ NN: Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame. Charles G. Lee. On: Bucknell University Athletics website; Lewisburg, PA, undated in 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2019 (in English).
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC