Gregory S. Lee

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Basketball player
Greg Lee
Player information
Full name Gregory Scott Lee
birthday 12th December 1951 (age 68)
place of birth Los Angeles , California , United States
size 191 cm
position Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college UCLA
NBA draft 1974 , 115. Pick Atlanta Hawks
Clubs as active
1971–1974 UCLA Bruins 1974–1975 San Diego Conquistadors 1975 Portland Trail Blazers 1977–1980 TuS 04 LeverkusenUnited StatesUnited States
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Gregory Scott Lee (born December 12, 1951 in Los Angeles , California ) is a retired American basketball and beach volleyball player . After a successful college career in which he won three National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball championships with the UCLA Bruins , Lee enjoyed a brief career as a basketball player in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association professional leagues (NBA) before playing in Germany for three more years , where he became German champion in 1979 with TuS 04 Leverkusen . Lee was also an excellent beach volleyball player and was one of the best players of his time with his partner Jim Menges in the 1970s. In 1976 he and Menges won the premiere of the Olympic World Championship of Beach Volleyball as an unofficial world championship and in 1997 was inducted into the "Hall of Fame" of the California Beach Volleyball Association (CBVA). After his sporting career, Lee became a high school teacher in his Californian homeland.

Career

Growing up in the Reseda district of the San Fernando Valley , Lee went to study at the University of California, Los Angeles , where he played for three years from 1971 on in the Bruins basketball team under the legendary coach John Wooden . With his teammates, which included Bill Walton , Lee was able to continue the Bruins' winning streak at the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship tournament, winning their sixth and seventh consecutive championships. The team was extremely dominant during this time and is listed in various rankings among the best NCAA basketball teams of all time. In the 1974 semi-finals, the 88-game winning streak of the Bruins ended in a highly dramatic and historic game against eventual tournament winner Wolfpack of North Carolina State University after two extra times. This also ended Lee's career as a basketball player in the NCAA .

After Lee was selected in the entry draft of the two competing US professional leagues ABA as well as NBA in the back rounds in 1974, he initially played five games in the ABA for the Conquistadors from San Diego , which, however, as a franchise on the 1974/75 season End of the season were sold. After the Atlanta Hawks, who had selected Lee in the 1974 NBA Draft , passed their rights to the Portland Trail Blazers , Lee played five more games in the 1975/76 NBA with his former teammate Bill Walton for the Oregon team . In November 1975, however, the Trail Blazers released him from his contract after just under a month. In 1977 Lee went to Germany, where two other players, John Ecker and Terence Schofield , who had played for the UCLA Bruins until 1971, were active in the German basketball league . In a team with John Ecker, Lee won the championship in 1979 with the TuS 04 from Leverkusen . After another season, Lee left the Farbenstädter again.

Although Lee had never been active for the Bruins volleyball team, he played beach volleyball in the summer months and initially took part in tournaments with his brother Jon Lee. One of his first partners was Ron von Hagen , who was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 1992 as one of the pioneers of beach volleyball . Lee, who was active in beach volleyball tournaments from 1971 to 1982, had his most successful period with Jim Menges, with whom he won 27 of his 29 tournaments. Among other things, the two won the premiere of the Olympia World Championship of Beach Volleyball in 1976 , one of the few tournaments with prize money at that time. 1997 Lee was accepted as a beach volleyball player in the "Hall of Fame" ( German  Hall of Fame ) of the California Beach Volleyball Association (CBVA).

Success as a basketball player

  • NCAA Champion: 1972, 1973
  • German champion: 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FIVB - Beach Volleyball: History # 1976. FIVB , accessed on September 28, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Page2: Greatest College Basketball Teams. ESPN , May 20, 2003, accessed September 28, 2013 .
  3. ^ Thad Novak: The 50 Best Teams in College Basketball History: 3rd 1971-73 UCLA Bruins. Bleacher Report , January 31, 2012, accessed September 28, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Unfulfilled wishes with a lot of fun. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , July 3, 2004, accessed on September 28, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Volleyball Hall of Fame - Honorees: Ron Von Hagen. (No longer available online.) Volleyhall.com, archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; accessed on September 28, 2013 (English). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volleyhall.org
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Gregory S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lee, Greg; Lee, Gregory Scott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball and beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California, USA