Jeremy Pargo

Jeremy Pargo
Player information
Full name	Jeremy Raymon Pargo
birthday	7th March 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Chicago , Illinois , United States
size	188 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college	Gonzaga
Club information
society	Maccabi Tel Aviv
league	Ligat ha'Al
Jersey number	4th
Clubs as active
2005–2009 Gonzaga Bulldogs ( NCAA ) 2009–2010 Hapoel Gilboa Galil 2010–2011 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2011–2012 Memphis Grizzlies 2012–2013 Cleveland Cavaliers 2013 Philadelphia 76ers 2013–2014 CSKA Moscow Since 2014 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2020 Golden State Warriors 00000 0 00000

Jeremy Raymon Pargo (born March 7, 1986 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Pargo played as a professional player in Israel before, after two national championships there in 2011, he made the leap to the highest-endowed professional league NBA in his home country. Here he was unable to assert himself sustainably at three clubs in two years and returned to the Israeli record champions Maccabi Tel Aviv via the Russian champions CSKA Moscow for the 2014/15 season. Jeremy is the younger brother of NBA pro Jannero Pargo .

Career

After graduating from Robeson High School in his native Chicago, Pargo went to study on the northwest coast to Gonzaga University in Spokane , where he played for the college team Bulldogs in the West Coast Conference (WCC) of the NCAA . For this team, John Stockton , a member of the original Dream Team and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame , played in the same position as Pargo. As a junior , Pargo was able to demonstrate his talent in his second season in 2006/07 with an average of 12.1 points and 4.6 assists per game. In the previous year, the last sixteen participants in the Sweet Sixteen , the Bulldogs lost their opening game at the national NCAA finals tournament in 2007 against the Hoosiers of Indiana University . The following year, 2008, the Bulldogs lost the final in the WCC championship tournament against the Toreros of the University of San Diego for the first time after four championships in a row , but Pargo was named WCC Player of the Year . In the NCAA finals tournament you lost again in the first round against the Wildcats of Davidson College , so that Pargo stayed another year with the Bulldogs. In the WCC championship tournament, the Bulldogs were able to regain the title with Pargo and in the national finals in 2009 they made it to the round of 16 like three years before, which however was lost to the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . In the entry draft of the highest endowed professional league NBA Pargo, like his older brother Jannero seven years earlier, was not considered in 2009.

While his brother Jannero had made it to an NBA club squad via the NBA Summer League and training camps, Jeremy Pargo did not succeed at the Orlando Magic and Detroit Pistons . He then moved to Israel for the 2009/10 season and joined Hapoel Gilboa Galil from the Galilean Northern District . Led by Pargo, who had 14.1 points and 4.6 assists per encounter, the underdog sensationally defeated record champions and defending champions Maccabi Electra from Tel Aviv in the 2010 finals . After the championship in 1993, back then as Galil Elyon under coach Pini Gershon , this was the club's second title win. Despite engagements in the summer of 2010 with the NBA clubs Charlotte Bobcats and Minnesota Timberwolves , Pargo was again blocked from joining a season squad of an NBA club, so he returned to Israel and was signed by the defending champion Maccabi Tel Aviv. With Tel Aviv he also played for the first time in the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague . The team only failed in the final at Panathinaikos Athens with 70:78. After defending the title in the Israeli Cup competition, Maccabi was able to win the Israeli double and take back the championship title, the second in a row for Pargo.

Despite contract extension, Pargo realized his dream of the NBA when he moved to the NBA in December 2011 in violation of his existing contract after the end of the lockout to the Memphis Grizzlies. In 44 season appearances, however, he only achieved an operating time of just under ten minutes per game and came to the Cleveland Cavaliers in a player swap for the NBA 2012/13 , who, after 25 further appearances in which he had been on the field for almost 18 minutes, released from his contract in January 2013. Two weeks later he was obliged by league rivals Philadelphia 76ers, where he was released from his contract on April 1, 2013 after another 14 missions. Pargo then returned to Europe and early in June 2013 signed a multi-million dollar contract with the Russian series champion CSKA Moscow in Russia . In the high squad, however, Pargo got surprisingly little playing time from coach Ettore Messina . Even if CSKA was able to win the championship in the regional European VTB United League again, the season was disappointing overall when they lost the semifinals in the Final Four of the Euroleague against the underdog, later title winner Maccabi Tel Aviv. Despite the breach of contract, Pargo was signed again by Maccabi for the 2014/15 season three years earlier.

successes

• Israeli champion: 2010, 2011
• Israeli Cup Winner: 2011
• ULEB Euroleague MVP of the month March 2011
• Winner of the VTB United League 2014

Web links

Commons : Jeremy Pargo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jeremy Pargo - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• PARGO, JEREMY - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)