Graylin Warner

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Graylin Warner (born September 7,  1962 in Tylertown , Mississippi ) is a retired American basketball player .

career

Warner, a six-foot-long winger, was a member of the University of Southwestern Louisiana (later renamed University of Louisiana at Lafayette) between 1980 and 1984 . In 122 missions he scored an average of 14.4 points and 5.6 rebounds per encounter. The Warner, who is valued for his versatility, reached the NCAA finals twice with the team . In the NBA draft process in 1984, the rights to Warner went to the Seattle Supersonics , who called his name in the sixth selection round in a total of 129th place.

However, Warner did not make the leap into the NBA, his first stop as a professional basketball player was the US league CBA . During the 1984/85 season he played there for the Sarasota Stingers, in six missions he scored an average of 3.3 points.

In the 1985/86 season Warner was under contract with Bundesliga club SSV Hagen in the basketball division . Warner made a significant contribution to the fact that Hagen finished the points round as second in the table. In the Bundesliga quarter-finals he and Hagen had to bow to BSC Saturn Cologne . Warner's eligibility was fussed over the course of the season. Bayer Leverkusen filed an objection, Hagen got four points deducted.

Warner played for Fabriano Basket in Italy in 1986/87 , followed by five years at Cholet Basket in France . He recorded an average of over 20 points for Cholet in every season from 1987 to 1992, his maximum value was 28.3 points per match in the 1988/89 game year. At the European level, Warner caused a sensation when he scored 45 points against Real Madrid in the quarter-final group stage of the European Cup Winners' Cup in January 1989 and led his team to victory over the Spaniards around Drazen Petrovic . After a year in Greece with Pagrati Athens, Warner returned to France and played again in the country's top division with ASA Sceaux Basket. Again he came to an average of more than 20 points per encounter. In the 1994/95 season he paused, then Warner played until 1997 for one year each with the French second division clubs Hyères Toulon and Spacer's de Toulouse and at the beginning of the 1997/98 season also in the second division at Anjou BC in Angers , but returned at the end of October In 1997, returned to the United States for family reasons.

After his basketball career, Warner worked as a driver , he stayed true to the sport and took part in games in an old men’s league in New Orleans .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Graylin Warner College Stats. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Men's Basketball: Mr. Consistency - Graylin Warner - Louisiana's Ragin Cajuns Athletic Network. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Graylin Warner. Fine Line Websites & IT Consulting, The Draft Review, accessed May 22, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ Graylin Warner Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Axel Gaiser: When the SSV failed against Cologne. May 15, 2018, accessed on May 22, 2020 (German).
  6. ^ Curt Morrell: Leverkusen ended the drought. In: The world. March 29, 1985. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Marco Antonini: GRAYLIN WARNER, UN “TAGLIO” SOFFERTO. In: radiogold.tv. Radio Gold, January 10, 2016, accessed May 22, 2020 (Italian).
  8. ↑ a b WARNER Graylin. In: LNB.fr. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (French).
  9. ^ Cup Winners' Cup 1988-89 (Game details). Retrieved May 22, 2020 (English).
  10. ↑ Le départ. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Warner, Graylin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Tylertown