Kelly McCarty
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| Player information | ||
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| Full name | Kelly Deshawn McCarty | |
| birthday | August 24, 1975 | |
| place of birth | Chicago (IL), USA | |
| size | 201 cm | |
| position | Shooting Guard | |
| college | Southern Mississippi | |
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1994–1998 Southern Miss Golden Eagles ( NCAA ) 1999 Denver Nuggets 1999–2001 Maccabi Ra'anana 2001 Oklahoma Storm ( USBL ) 2001–2003 Maccabi Givat Shmuel 2003–2004 Maccabi Rischon LeZion 2004 Hapoel Jerusalem 2004–2006 BK Dynamo Sankt Petersburg 2006– 2010 BK Chimki 2010–2013 UNICS Kazan  
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| 2009 | Russia | |
Kelly Deshawn McCarty (born August 24, 1975 in Chicago , Illinois ) is a native American basketball player . After a season in the NBA with only two games for the Denver Nuggets , he first played for clubs in the Israeli Ligat ha'Al since 1999 . In 2004 he moved to Russia , whose citizenship he accepted in 2009 and for whose national team he has already played in international games. Most recently he was active at the Russian association UNICS from Kazan , with which he won the ULEB Eurocup in 2011 . McCarty had already won this European club competition once in 2004 with Hapoel from Jerusalem .
Career as a player
USA (until 2001)
McCarty spent a total of four seasons at the University of Southern Mississippi , where he played for the college team Golden Eagles in the NCAA Division I.
After he was initially ignored in the NBA's Entry Draft , McCarty signed in January 1999 as a free agent with the Denver Nuggets. After only two appearances in the NBA, the contract expired in August 1999. In 2001 he returned actively to his home country and played in the summer league United States Basketball League for Oklahoma Storm.
Israel (1999 to 2004)
His career in Europe was much more successful. Since the fall of 1999, McCarty played with short interruptions a total of five years in the highest Israeli basketball league. In addition to a runner-up with Maccabi from Ra'anana 2000, he reached the final of the Israeli cup competition once each with Maccabi from Givat Schmuel and Hapoel Jerusalem. All finals were lost to the dominant Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv . The only final game with an Israeli club he won in 2004 in the ULEB Cup against the favorite Real Madrid surprisingly with Hapoel Jerusalem, which is the first and so far biggest international success of this club. He was voted Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the final game.
Russia (since 2004)
After this international success, he moved to the Russian Super League in 2004 . With the newly founded club Dynamo from Saint Petersburg , he won the FIBA Europe League in 2005 and was again elected MVP of the finals, in this case the MVP of the Final Four tournament. After the professional basketball team of Dynamo in Saint Petersburg was dissolved again in 2006 for financial reasons, he moved to the runner-up in the Moscow suburb of Khimki . After he was third in the Russian championship with Khimki - as in the previous year with Dynamo - in 2007, they reached the runner-up three times in a row in the following seasons, when they lost the final series to series champions CSKA Moscow . Only in the Russian cup competition was they victorious in a final against CSKA in 2008. In 2009, however, they also lost the final in the ULEB Eurocup against the Lithuanian club Lietuvos rytas Vilnius .
McCarty took Russian citizenship in the run-up to the 2009 European Basketball Championship . He was appointed to the national team and took part in the European Championship finals for the defending champion, which ended disappointingly with seventh place. At the end of his career, McCarty moved to league rivals UNICS in 2010, who was coached by Yevgeny Pashutin , in the newly founded PBL , which had replaced the Superleague as the top national division. He had played together with Paschutin himself during his active time in the 2000/01 season at Maccabi Ra'anana. With the team from Kazan, he won the ULEB Eurocup and the regular season of the PBL in 2011 . In the 2010/11 VTB season , McCarty was elected MVP of the 7th matchday. Both the semifinals of the championship play-offs and the semifinals of the VTB United League were lost to their ex-club from Khimki. In the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 you reached the quarter-final play-offs as a newcomer, in which you were clearly inferior to the Spanish champions FC Barcelona . While they moved into the final in the VTB United League 2011/12 to lose to CSKA there, they disappointed in the Russian championship, in which in the PBL 2011/12 after a sixth place in the main round, they finished fifth in the Placement round reached. After being eliminated somewhat surprisingly in the qualification of the ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 , the Eurocup 2012/13 qualified for the quarter-finals, while the VTB United League 2012/13 and the PBL 2012/13 had a similar season to a year previously signed. After they had separated from coach Aco Petrović at the end of January 2013, the contract with McCarty was also dissolved in mid-February.
Awards and Achievements
With the team
- Winner ULEB Eurocup (2 ×): 2004, 2011
- Winner FIBA Europe League (1 ×): 2005
- Russian Cup Winner (1 ×): 2008
Personal awards
- MVP of the final ULEB Eurocup 2004.
- MVP of the overall FIBA Europe League 2005 tournament.
- Round 7 MVP in the 2010–2011 season in the VTB .
- Participant in the FIBA All-Star Games 2005 & 2006
- Participant of the PBL All-Star Games 2011
Web links
- McCarty, Kelly - Player profile on the website of the ULEB (English)
- Kelly McCarty NBA & ABA Statistics - College Playtime Statistics
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kelly McCarty NBA & ABA Stats. Basketball-Reference.com, accessed February 18, 2013 (English, profile and statistics).
- ↑ Javier Gancedo: REAL MADRID vs. HAPOEL MIGDAL JERUSALEM - Report. ULEB , April 13, 2004, accessed January 30, 2012 .
- ↑ Jeff Taylor (PA International): Dynamo 85 vs. BC Kyiv 74th FIBA Europa , April 28, 2005, accessed January 30, 2012 .
- ↑ archive.fiba.com: Players - Kelly MC CARTY (RUS). FIBA , accessed on February 18, 2013 (English, overview of participation in official national team tournaments).
- ^ Unics Kazan, Coach Petrovic part ways. ULEB , January 31, 2013, accessed February 18, 2013 .
- ↑ Kelly McCarty, Unics part ways. ULEB , February 18, 2013, accessed February 18, 2013 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | McCarty, Kelly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McCarty, Kelly Deshawn (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Russian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois, USA |