JR Bremer

JR Bremer
Player information
Full name	Ernest Lenell Bremer junior
birthday	19th September 1980 (age 39)
place of birth	Cleveland , Ohio , United States
size	188 cm
position	Point guard
college	St. Bonaventure
NBA draft	Exp 2004 , Charlotte Bobcats
Club information
society	PAOK Thessaloniki
league	A1 Ethniki
Clubs as active
1998–2002 St. Bonaventure Bonnies ( NCAA ) 2002–2003 Boston Celtics 2003–2004 Cleveland Cavaliers 2004 Golden State Warriors 2004–2005 Unicaja Málaga 2005–2006 Angelico Biella 2007 PAOK Thessaloniki 2007 KK Bosna Sarajevo 2007–2008 Spartak Primorje 2008–2009 Triumph Ljuberzy 2009–2011 Krasnye Krylja Samara 2011–2012 BK Nizhny Novgorod 2012 EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 2012 Fenerbahçe Ülker 2012–2013 EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 2013–2014 Royal Halı Gaziantep Since 2014 PAOK Thessaloniki 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 0
National team
2008	Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ernest Bremer Jr. , called JR Bremer , (born September 19, 1980 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American - Bosnian basketball player . After studying in his home country, Bremer first played for two years as a professional in the NBA , before playing in Europe from 2004, after stints in Spain , Italy and Greece , mainly for five years until 2012 in Russia . He has had Bosnian citizenship since 2009 , so he can play for this country in international games. Bremer has been playing in Greece again since 2014.

Career

United States (College and NBA, 1998 to 2004)

Growing up in his native joined Bremer in 1998 to study at the Franciscan -Universität Saint Bonaventure in Allegany in New York State on the border with Pennsylvania , where he worked for the high school team Bonnies in the 10 Conference Atlantic the NCAA played. In his second year as a sophomore, the Bonnies qualified for the national finals of the NCAA , in which they met the favored Wildcats of the University of Kentucky in the first round and were only beaten just after two extra times. In the following two seasons, the Bonnies could no longer qualify for the finals and at the end of his four-year college career in the NBA Draft 2002 , Bremer was not selected by any professional club for the highest endowed basketball professional league.

About test games in the summer of 2002 Bremer was able to earn a place in the squad of the NBA club Boston Celtics, which he did not dismiss before the start of the season. In 41 of 64 games of the season as a " starter ", Bremer scored a good 8 points and almost 3 assists in a good 23 minutes per game and was at the end of the 2002/03 season in the "all rookie second team" of the ten best professional Newcomers to the NBA appointed. In the play-offs , the Celtics failed again at the New Jersey Nets , but this time in the second round, the semi-final series of the Eastern Conference . In the summer of 2003 Bremer was then swapped with a teammate and a draft pick against Jumaine Jones to the Cavaliers from his hometown. Here Bremer came off the bench and only got half as much playing time as before. At the beginning of March 2004 he was dismissed after only 31 missions in the jersey of the Cavaliers and then again signed by the Golden State Warriors on the west coast for four weeks. This then extended his contract to the end of the season, although he was only used in five season games of the Warriors, and offered him in the expansion draft of the new Charlotte Bobcats franchise . In the end, Bremer did not sign these, who then continued his career in Europe.

Southern European Leagues (2004 to 2007)

For the 2004/05 season Bremer moved to the Spanish club Unicaja from Málaga in the ACB league . With this team he won the Spanish Cup "Copa del Rey" 2005 against the champions Real Madrid , after he was awarded as player of the game at the end of December 2004. In the play-offs for the championship, however, they failed in the semi-final series on the main round first TAU Cerámica , which had to be given precedence in the first group phase of the ULEB Euroleague 2004/05 in a direct comparison .

In the 2005/06 season Bremer played in the top Italian division Serie A for Angelico from Biella, among others, together with the young Swiss Thabo Sefolosha , who at that time, unlike Bremer, still had his NBA career ahead of him. The club from Piedmont had only narrowly avoided relegation in the previous season and reached the play-off quarter-finals for the championship for the first time with a new name sponsor after the eighth main round place, where they were eliminated against the main round first Climamio Bologna . Bremer only played 23 games this season, hampered by injuries.

Then Bremer only got a new contract with PAOK in Thessaloniki in the Greek A1 Ethniki in January 2007 , when he stepped in for an injured colleague. After the end of this temporary contract, he moved to KK Bosna in Sarajevo for the end of the season . However, KK Bosna could not defend its national Bosnian championship against arch rivals HKK Široki Brijeg and only reached the runner-up.

Russia (2007 to 2012)

In 2007 Bremer moved to the Russian super league . The location of his first Russian station, however, was far outside Europe, in Vladivostok on the Asian Pacific coast near Spartak in the Primorye region . This club had qualified the year before with Derrick Phelps for the first time for the play-offs for the championship. With Bremer you could repeat this success, but retired in the first round against series champion PBK ZSKA Moscow . Bremer then moved to Moscow Oblast himself in 2008 and played for Triumph from Lyubertsy the following season . With this club he reached fifth place after the main round, but was also eliminated in the play-off quarter-finals. For the following season the illiquid ZSK WWS Samara was replaced by Krasnye Krylja from Samara . With his team, Bremer was only just able to avoid relegation from the Super League in the 2010 championship. In the international club competition EuroChallenge they were more successful and reached the final, which was lost to the Final Four host BG 74 Göttingen . In Russia, on the other hand, allegations of manipulation caused the association and clubs to be separated and in the newly created Professionalnaja Basketbolnaja League as the highest division, Krasnye Krylja achieved seventh place after the main round in 2011, so that in the quarter-finals they met the second-placed series champion ZSKA, who was consequently was subject. For the 2011/12 season, Bremer got a contract with league rivals from Nizhny Novgorod , for which the season was over after only three wins in 18 season games before the play-offs.

Back to Italy (since 2012)

Bremer himself played the play-offs in the Italian Serie A after returning to Italy at the end of January 2012. He reached the final series for the championship with the Milanese club Olimpia operating under the name "EA7 Emporio Armani", which however was lost to the series champion Montepaschi Siena . For the following season he got a contract with Fenerbahçe Ülker in Istanbul , which only used him in six national championship games, while he was regularly used in the games of the ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 and had very low throwing rates there with a few game shares. For the group stage of the sixteen best teams, Fenerbahçe Ülker renounced the services of Bremer, who was then taken back under contract in mid-December by EA7 from Milan, who had missed this group stage and then terminated the contract with Omar Cook . However, the team was eliminated in the championship play-offs in the first round in seven games against defending champion Montepaschi Siena . For the 2013/14 season Bremer moved to the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi to Royal Halı from Gaziantep .

Hellas 2014

After Kostas Charalampidis, the playmaker and leader of PAOK Saloniki, was injured, the Greek basketball club announced in early December 2014 that the American had been signed again. The experienced guard was supposed to fill the vacuum left by the long-term injured captain.

Web links

• BREMER, JR - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• Legabasket: Jr Ernest Bremer - player profile on the websites of the Serie A ( Italian )
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Ernest Lenell BREMER (BIH) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• JR Bremer - player profile on NBA.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Liz Robbins: NCAA TOURNAMENT: FIRST ROUND - MIDWEST; The Bonnies Put a Double-Overtime Scare Into Kentucky. New York Times , March 17, 2000, accessed December 18, 2012 . 
2. ^ St. Bonaventure Bonnies vs. Kentucky Wildcats - March 16, 2000 - College Basketball. (No longer available online.) Statsheet.com, formerly the original ; accessed on December 18, 2012 (English, game statistics).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ ACB.COM: JR Bremer. Liga ACB , accessed December 18, 2012 (Spanish, player profile). 
4. ↑ Vassilis Skountis: PAOK brings in JR Bremer. ULEB , January 7, 2007, accessed December 18, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Göttingen Win EuroChallenge In Thrilling Final. FIBA Europa , May 2, 2010, accessed December 18, 2012 . 
6. ↑ JR Bremer - Turkish Basketball League Player. TBLStat.net, accessed on December 18, 2012 (English, player statistics). 
7. ↑ BREMER, JR: 2012-2013 STATISTICS. ULEB , accessed on December 18, 2012 (English, seasonal statistics). 
8. ↑ Bremer leaves Fenerbahce, joins Milano. ULEB , December 18, 2012, accessed December 18, 2012 .