Greg Monroe
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| Full name | Gregory Keith Monroe Jr | |
| birthday | 4th June 1990 (age 30) | |
| place of birth | Harvey , Louisiana , United States | |
| size | 211 cm | |
| position | Power Forward / Center | |
| college | Georgetown | |
| NBA draft | 2010 , 7th pick , Detroit Pistons | |
| Club information | ||
| society | BK Khimki | |
| Jersey number | 10 | |
| Clubs as active | ||
2010 - 2015 Detroit Pistons 2015 - 2018 Milwaukee Bucks 2017–2018 Phoenix Suns 2018 Boston Celtics 2018–2019 Toronto Raptors 2019 Boston Celtics 2019 Philadelphia 76ers 2019–2020 FC Bayern Munich Since 2020 BK Chimki   
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Gregory Keith Monroe Jr. (born June 4, 1990 in Harvey , Louisiana ) is an American basketball player who is under contract with BK Chimki . The 2.11 m tall Monroe plays on the position of the center .
Player career
School and university time
Monroe, who grew up in New Orleans , attended Helen Cox High School . During his time in high school, he made a name for himself by performing well and was elected to the McDonald's All-American team, among others. He then decided to attend Georgetown University and played for their basketball team, the Hoyas . The left-hander played an outstanding freshman season there and was voted rookie of the year for the Big East rookie . However, the missed Hoyas the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship finals. In 2010 they reached the NCAA tournament, but were eliminated in the first round against Ohio . Monroe remained the All-American choice . In his two years at Georgetown University he played a total of 65 games for the university team, was always in the starting line-up and scored an average of 14.5 points as well as 8.2 rebounds, 3.2 basket volumes and 1.5 blocks per encounter.
NBA
In the 2010 NBA draft he was selected seventh by the Detroit Pistons , and on July 7, 2010 he signed his first NBA contract. On January 30, 2011, he set a career high with 17 rebounds and five days later reached another personal high of 20 points . He finished his rookie season with 9.4 points and 7.5 rebounds per game and was called up to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team .
In his sophomore year, Monroe improved greatly, scoring 15.4 points, 9.7 rebounds, and 2.3 assists per game. And the following season his statistics remained consistently good with 16.0 points, 9.6 rebounds and 3.5 assists. Nevertheless, Monroe missed the jump into the play-offs with the Pistons . In the 2013/14 season , his statistics remained constant, but the Pistons failed again at the playoffs. In the summer of 2014 Monroe became a restricted free agent and was able to negotiate a new contract, but the Pistons had the last word. Due to a lack of offers, he received a contract with the Pistons in the amount of the previous year's salary ( qualifying offer) , which meant that he was without a contract in the summer of 2015 and was able to search for a new team without any obligation to the Pistons.
After another unsuccessful year in Detroit, where he averaged 15.9 points and 10.2 rebounds, he moved to the Milwaukee Bucks in the summer of 2015 . With the Bucks, Monroe signed a three-year contract worth $ 50 million. At the beginning of the 2017/18 season , Monroe was transferred from the Bucks to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for Eric Bledsoe . There, however, his contract was terminated after a few months, in February 2019 he signed a contract with the Boston Celtics for the rest of the season. He left the Celtics at the end of the season and signed a new contract with the Canada-based Toronto Raptors .
Due to the injury of Jonas Valančiūnas in December 2018, Monroe received more minutes and mostly came off the bench. The Toronto Raptors swap , in which Valančiūnas, CJ Miles , Delon Wright and a draft second-round selection right for Marc Gasol were swapped shortly before the transfer deadline, Monroe was transferred to the Brooklyn Nets in order to have financial leeway within the salary cap. to accomplish. But there he did not become part of the team, because the Nets decided to fire Monroe and pay off.
FC Bayern Munich
At the end of July 2019, Monroe was announced as a new addition by the German Bundesliga club FC Bayern Munich . In 19 games in the Bundesliga, Munich scored an average of 13.2 points and 5.5 rebounds per match. In the summer of 2020 he moved to BK Chimki in Russia.
Web links
- Greg Monroe player profile on NBA website; New York, NY, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
- Greg Monroe player profile on Basketball Reference website; Philadelphia, PA, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
- Greg Monroe player profile on ESPN website; Burbank, CA, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2018 (in English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Greg Monroe College Stats. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Pistons Sign Monroe . espn.com. Retrieved December 11, 2009.
- ↑ Greg Monroe gets 17 rebounds against NY ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Greg Monroe scores 20 points
- ↑ How does the NBA qualifying offer system work? Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
- ^ Greg Monroe Signs Qualifying Offer
- ^ Bucks Sign Greg Monroe
- ^ Raptors Sign Greg Monroe
- ↑ NBA Trade: Marc Gasol is traded by the Memphis Grizzlies to the Toronto Raptors
- ↑ Brooklyn Nets add 2021 2nd-rounder from Toronto, will waive Greg Monroe
- ^ The Bavarians are looking forward to NBA center Greg Monroe. July 25, 2019, accessed July 25, 2019 .
- ↑ 45544 Greg MONROE. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Monroe powers up Khimki frontline. Accessed July 30, 2020 (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Monroe, Greg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monroe, Gregory Keith Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th June 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harvey , Louisiana, USA |