Eric Butler (basketball player)

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Eric Butler (born March 6,  1974 ) is a retired Canadian - British basketball player .

career

Butler, a 1.98 meter winger, was a student at Kerrisdale Elementary School in Vancouver . He was on the University of British Columbia basketball team from 1992 to 1997 . In terms of his scores there, the 1994/95 season was Butler's best when he scored 10.9 per encounter.

The first stop of his career as a professional basketball player was the French second division Poissy-Chatou in the 1997/98 season. At the beginning of the 1998/99 season he was only briefly under contract in Milton Keynes ( England ), then moved to the Clare Jets in Ireland . Then Butler played for the Austrian Bundesliga club Kapfenberg .

Between 2000 and 2002 he was under contract with UBC Mattersburg , where he scored an average of 16.2 points per encounter. In the 2002/03 season Butler played 29 league games for the German Bundesliga club EnBW Ludwigsburg , in which he scored an average of 6.6 points. In the summer break of 2003 he was signed by the German second division club Eisbären Bremerhaven . During the 2003/04 season he moved within the league from Bremerhaven to BBC Bayreuth . In his last year as a professional basketball player (2004/05) Butler belonged to the Austrian Bundesliga team Fürstenfeld Panthers .

In 2010, he founded  a company in Vancouver that provides basketball training for teenagers. Joey Vickery became one of his business partners and associates .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b U Sports Hoops - University Basketball in Canada. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ https://www.lnb.fr/fr/PROB/joueurs/eric-butler-A06755.html
  3. ↑ Basketball: Eagles on rise with Webber. October 24, 1998, accessed August 19, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Joiner has point to prove. Retrieved on August 19, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ a b http://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a4168_Pro-B_Eisbaeren-Bremerhaven-verpflichten-Eric-Butler.htm
  6. ↑ easyCredit - 433 LUD. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
  7. ↑ https://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a5607_ProB_Eric-Butler-verlaesst-Bremerhaven.htm
  8. ↑ http://www.bk-klosterneuburg.at/download/Vorschau_Saison_BL_Herrn_2005-06.pdf
  9. ↑ About Us. In: Split Second Basketball: Vancouver Basketball Training. Retrieved August 19, 2020 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Butler, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-British basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1974