Edwin Ubiles

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Basketball player
Edwin Ubiles
Edwin Ubiles with the Washington Wizards
Player information
Full name Edwin E. Ubiles
birthday November 26, 1986
place of birth Brooklyn (NYC), USA
size 198 cm
Weight 93 kg
position Small forward
High school Poughkeepsie High School
college Siena College
Club information
society Kyoto Hannaryz
league BJ league
Jersey number 23
Clubs as active
2006–2010 Siena Saints ( NCAA ) 2011 Indios de Mayagüez ( BSN ) 2011–2012 Dakota Wizards 2012 Washington Wizards 2012 Cholet Basket 2013 Santa Cruz Warriors 2013 Springfield Armor Since 2013 Kyoto Hannaryz ( bjL ) United StatesUnited States
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National team
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Edwin E. Ubiles (born November 26, 1986 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American basketball player of Puerto Rican descent. Ubiles was number 24 with the Dakota Wizards in the NBA Development League (D-League) and was named the best professional newcomer in the D-League in 2012. After brief stints in the NBA and the French LNB Pro A and further career stations in the D-League, he became a player in the Japanese BJ league in the 2013/14 season .

Career

college

After high school in Poughkeepsie , Ubiles was two years from 2004 at the St. Thomas More Prep School in Oakdale in the neighboring US state of Connecticut . In 2006 he moved back to New York State to study at Siena College in Albany , where he played in the NCAA Division I MAAC for their college team Saints . In his rookie year he was able to achieve 11.8 points and a 49.5% field throw rate. The next two years he was able to improve before he was able to achieve 15.3 points per game in his senior year. He had a double-digit point average for every college year. When Ubiles moved to the NBA, he had averaged 14.8 points per game and a total of 1939 points, the third-highest score in the college's history.

Professional career

After the end of his college career, Ubiles signed up in 2010 as a promising talent for the NBA Draft of the highest endowed professional league NBA to become a professional. As a result of a fatigue fracture on the shin that was recognized late and had to be treated surgically, no NBA club wanted to select Ubiles. After the operation, Ubiles only dared to make a comeback in the BSN league in the spring of 2011 in his parents' home country , where he played with the Indios from Mayagüez . After convincing performances, he was not only selected for the Puerto Rico national team , with which he won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in 2011 , but was also signed up for the 2011/12 season by the Dakota Wizards from the NBA Development League . Here, too, he knew how to convince, which is why he was signed in March 2012 by the NBA club Washington Wizards, for which he played four games. After the end of the ten-day contract ( German  ten-day contract ) he returned to the wizards from the D-League, who are actually the farm team of the Golden State Warriors . At the end of the season he won the “ Rookie of the Year ” in the D-League for the 2011/12 season and was named the best player in his position in the “All-NBA Development League Team”. At the beginning of the 2012/13 season he was briefly active in France for Cholet Basket, before the contract was terminated after an injury after a game in the LNB Pro A. His comeback had Ubiles then again in 2013 in the D-League for the Wizards, who now in California as Santa Cruz Warriors firmierten , and later with Springfield Armor before leaving for the 2013/14 season to Japan to Hannaryz from Kyoto in the bj league changed.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kevin Scheitrum: Finally at Full Strength, Ubiles Primed to Make NBA Leap. (No longer available online.) NBA.com/dleague, Jan. 22, 2012, archived from the original on February 10, 2012 ; accessed on June 9, 2012 (English).
  2. Edwin Ubiles Signs With Washington Wizards ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ NBA Development League Names 2011-12 All-NBA D-League Selections. (No longer available online.) NBA.com/dleague, May 2, 2012, archived from the original on May 5, 2012 ; accessed on June 9, 2012 (English).
  4. Ubiles Named 2012 NBA Development League Rookie of the Year. (No longer available online.) NBA.com/dleague, April 20, 2012, archived from the original on June 29, 2015 ; accessed on June 9, 2012 (English).