Crawford Palmer

Crawford Palmer
Player information
Full name	Henry Crawford Palmer
birthday	14th September 1970 (age 49)
place of birth	Ithaca , New York , United States
size	208 cm
position	Center / Power Forward
college	Dartmouth
Clubs as active
1988–1991 Duke Blue Devils ( NCAA ) 1992–1993 Dartmouth Big Green (NCAA) 1993–1996 Fos-sur-Mer 1996–1997 JL Bourg-en-Bresse 1997–1999 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 1999–2001 Joventut de Badalona 2001– 2002 Cáceres CB 2002-2006 Strasbourg IG
National team 1
1998-2002	France	47 games
1 As of April 23, 2017

Crawford Palmer medal table
Basketball (men)
France
Olympic games
silver	2000 Sydney

Henry Crawford Palmer (born September 14, 1970 in Ithaca , New York State ) is a former American - French basketball player . After his school days as McDonald's All-American, Palmer was considered a promising talent in basketball and won the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship in 1991 with the Duke Blue Devils . He then finished his studies at Dartmouth College and initially played basketball in France. After marrying a French basketball player, he took the citizenship of his adopted home country and received offers from higher-class clubs, with whom he also played in international competitions. Eventually, Palmer also became a French selection player and was a silver medalist at the 2000 Olympics . A year after winning the French championship with Strasbourg IG, Palmer ended his active basketball career in 2006.

Career

At the end of his school years, Crawford Palmer was invited to the prestigious McDonald's All-American Game of the best high school basketball players in the United States in 1988 . The East selection around the two MVPs Alonzo Mourning and Billy Owens as well as Christian Laettner and Palmer won the game. Unlike his two year older brother Walter Palmer , who studied like their common ancestors at Dartmouth College , Crawford Palmer accepted a scholarship from Duke University and played for the Blue Devils team under coach Mike Krzyzewski in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), where Laettner was again his teammate. While Laettner became a legend at the Blue Devils and finally became the only NCAA player to be a member of the original Dream Team , Palmer, like his later German teammate Christian Ast, was able to earn little time, so that after winning the Blue's first national title Devils ever changed college again in the 1991 national NCAA final tournament and like his ancestors finished his studies at Dartmouth College. While brother Walter had already finished his studies a year earlier and had been selected by the Utah Jazz in the entry draft of the NBA professional league , Crawford had to sit out for a year after changing college and was able to join the Dartmouth Big Green in his final NCAA season of the Ivy League no longer recommend for the 1993 NBA draft, despite significantly improved statistical values .

As a result of his career as a basketball player interrupted by the university change, Crawford Palmer was no longer a top choice for offers from professional clubs, especially since the Ivy League, in which Palmer had achieved his best performances as an NCAA player, did not include teams that have recently achieved national success and was therefore not considered a “breeding ground” for future basketball professionals. Nevertheless, Palmer continued his career as a basketball player after completing his studies and went to Europe , where he played in the French Provence for a club from Fos-sur-Mer , which officially played in an amateur class as a third division. In the 1994/95 season he was briefly supported as a teammate by his brother Walter, who after two unsuccessful engagements in the NBA continued his career in Europe, especially in Germany . After the 1995/96 season, Palmer moved to the former league competitor and second division promoted Jeunesse laïque from Bourg-en-Bresse , where he was able to convince in the higher division in the 1996/97 season. After his marriage to the former French selection player Sandrine Chiotti, who was seven years older than him, Crawford Palmer was also able to acquire French citizenship and, as a naturalized player, was also of interest to the French record champions ASVEL from Villeurbanne , who took him to the LNB Pro A 1997 / 98 in the top French league. However, the former runner-up and cup winner missed a title win that season as the first in the main round with the elimination in the play-off semifinals against Limoges CSP . Nevertheless, Palmer was used for the first time in the French men's selection in the summer of 1998 at the age of almost 28 and made his debut in the 71:63 success in Vittel over the German selection , which, like the French, did not qualify for the 1998 World Cup . In the following season ASVEL managed as second in the main round with Palmer again to move into the play-off final series, which was lost to the defending champion and main round first EB Pau-Orthez . In international competitions, ASVEL, which had made it into the Final Four tournament before Palmer's time in the FIBA Europaliga 1996/97 , failed twice in the quarter-finals, in the Saporta Cup in 1998 just by the later finalist Stefanel Milan and a year later in the FIBA Europaliga 1998/99 clear to Olympiacos Piraeus .

While Crawford Palmer's brother Walter now moved to the top French league for LNB Pro A in 1999/2000 , Crawford, who had not been nominated for the 1999 European Championship finals, was drawn to the French host selection with his French passport as a result of Bosman -Judgment south in the Spanish league ACB . Here he played for the former European Cup winner Joventut from Badalona in Catalonia . In two seasons, however, Palmer with the team did not return to the play-offs of the top eight teams for the Spanish championship. However, Palmer himself managed to return to the squad of the French men's selection, which - apart from participation in 1984 , when they benefited from the Olympic boycott of the Eastern Bloc - had qualified for an Olympic basketball tournament for the first time since 1960, finishing fourth in the European Championship the previous year . Eight years after Laettner's participation in the Dream Team, Crawford Palmer was now also an Olympian for France. At the 2000 Olympic basketball tournament in Sydney , the French selection around Antoine Rigaudeau and Palmer's former ASVEL teammate Jim Bilba surprisingly made it to the final despite three defeats in the preliminary round, including against the US defending champions . Against the high favorites United States, for whom Alonzo Mourning had been nominated and who had little convincing in the narrow semi-final victory over Lithuania , the French were able to keep the point difference in the final defeat at a respectable ten points and after the silver medal in the second Olympic basketball tournament in 1948 win a silver medal again in London . A year later, France started the tournament comparatively well at the 2001 European Championship finals in Turkey after winning over Lithuania as group winners in the preliminary round, but finished sixth after a quarter-final defeat against the German selection around top scorer Dirk Nowitzki . With the defeat in the game for fifth place against Russia , the Olympic runner-up also missed participation in the 2002 World Cup . Palmer then moved again within Spain, the club and went to the club from Cáceres , for which it was fourth from last in the ACB 2002 league only to relegate.

For the LNB Pro A 2002/03 , Palmer returned to his adopted French home and moved to Illkirch-Graffenstaden Basket in Strasbourg on the Rhine in Alsace . National coach Alain Weisz used Palmer one last time in the European Championship qualification in the French selection in November 2002, before he gave up the 32-year-old in favor of a new build. Instead, after the dismissal of the former club coach Vitoux in December 2002, Weisz was now also club coach in Strasbourg. After finishing ninth in the previous year, SIG Basket, the club's abbreviation, was only bottom of the table and only held the class because the league was increased by two teams. In the following season, when Weisz had resigned his position as national coach after the European Championship finals in 2003 , the team returned in the extended league in seventh place in the play-offs, in which they were in the first round against defending champion ÉB Pau- Orthez was eliminated. Finally, Weisz handed over his position as club coach to Éric Girard , who led the team in the LNB Pro A 2004/05 straight away to their first national title and winning the 2005 championship. In the play-off quarter-finals, the main round third Strasbourg defeated the defending champion ÉB Pau-Orthez and was also victorious in the play-off semifinals over the record champions and Palmer's former club ASVEL in the end, when Palmer scored double-digit in both games. Finally, the first championship success came in the only final game with the 72:68 victory over SLUC Nancy . After Palmer had previously only participated in international club competitions of FIBA Europa with Strasbourg , he was with the French champions in his last playing season in the EuroLeague initiated by the ULEB 2005/06 , in which the French team after only three wins in 14 games, however, were eliminated after the preliminary round. In the French championship, the defending champion again reached the play-offs in third place, in which the semifinals of the previous year's final against SLUC Nancy were repeated. In a best-of-three series, the former runner-up was able to prevail this time, with Crawford Palmer showing his best performance of the season in the decisive third semi-final game in the 64:71 away defeat with 14 points and just as many rebounds at the farewell.

After his brother Walter built up an interest group for professional basketball players, first in Germany and then in Europe, before he returned to his home country, Crawford Palmer stayed with his family in his adopted home and settled not far from Fos-de-Mer, where he once started his career in French amateur classes , in Provence, settled in Bandol , where he also recently actively laced his basketball shoes for the local club in the fifth highest division NM3. Previously, Crawford Palmer, who was never active in the NBA himself, was used from 2008 as a contact person in the FFBB for the interests of the national players active in the NBA and remained in office until 2011. Of his children, his daughter Manon became known for her participation in the fourth season of the French edition of the talent show The Voice in early 2015.

In the 2018/19 season, Palmer was the sporting director of Élan Chalon , and during the summer break he moved to Limoges CSP , where he also took up this position.

Web links

• Henry Crawford Palmer - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Crawford Palmer - Joueurs - Pro A - Profile on the Ligue Nationale de Basket website ( French )
• ACB.COM: C. Palmer - Profile on the website of the ACB League ( Spanish )
• Crawford Palmer - SBC - Profile on the websites of the Sanary Basket Club (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tous les results des équipes de France: Crawford Palmer. (No longer available online.) FFBB , archived from the original on April 24, 2017 ; Retrieved on April 23, 2017 (French, list of missions with the French men's national team). 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.  
2. ↑ Player Alumni List 12-2013. (PDF (283 KB)) McDonaldsAllAmerican.com, p. 8 , accessed on April 23, 2017 (English, list of all participants). 
3. ^ Robert Lohrer: Two Decades Later Brother Act returns to WL. Washington Post , February 27, 1986, accessed April 23, 2017 (in English, repro in the news archive). 
4. ↑ Laettner Headlines This Year's ACC Legends Class. Duke University , February 5, 2007, accessed April 23, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Crawford Palmer. DukeUpdate.com, accessed on April 23, 2017 (English, individual career statistics with the Blue Devils). 
6. ^ Crawford Palmer College Stats. Sports-Reference.com, accessed April 23, 2017 (English, individual NCAA statistics with the Duke Blue Devils). 
7. ^ Crawford Palmer College Stats. Sports-Reference.com, accessed on April 23, 2017 (English, Individual NCAA statistics with the Dartmouth Big Green). 
8. ↑ ACB.COM: Walter Palmer. (No longer available online.) ACB League , archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on April 23, 2017 (Spanish, profile with individual statistics). 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.  
9. ^ Crawford Palmer: Americano, pero muy francés. Liga ACB , March 7, 2015, accessed April 23, 2017 (Spanish). 
10. ^ Crawford Palmer rejoint Sanary Basket Club. Ouest-Var.net, June 1, 2013, accessed on April 23, 2017 (French). 
11. ^ Geoffrey Charpille: Crawford Palmer et David Lesmond signed à Bandol (Pré-Nationale). (No longer available online.) BeBasket.fr, June 8, 2013, archived from the original on April 24, 2017 ; accessed on April 23, 2017 (French, posting on French basketball portal). 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.  
12. ^ ^{A b} Crawford Palmer, nouveau directeur sportif du CSP: "Venir à Limoges, c'est toujours spécial". In: Basket Europe. May 25, 2019, accessed October 12, 2019 . 
13. ^ Damien Mercereau: Manon Palmer: mannequinat, basket et The Voice ... Elle nous dit tout. Le Figaro , January 19, 2015, accessed April 23, 2017 (French).