LaMarr Greer

LaMarr Greer
Player information
Full name	LaMarr Vernon Greer
birthday	May 16, 1976 (44 years 107 days)
place of birth	Voorhees , New Jersey , USA
size	196 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college	Florida State
Clubs as active
1994–1998 Florida State Seminoles ( NCAA ) 1999 Trenton Shooting Stars ( IBL ) 1999–2000 Baltimore Bayrunners (IBL) 2000–2001 Trenton Shooting Stars (IBL) 2001 Record Basket Napoli 2001–2002 Pallacanestro Messina 2002–2003 Pompea Basket Napoli 2003– 2004 UNICS Kazan 2004–2007 BK Kiev 2007–2008 Olympia Larisa 2008–2009 Keravnos Strovolou 2009–2010 Ironi Naharija 2010–2012 New Yorker Phantoms 2012–2013 Kouvolan Kouvot 00000 00000

LaMarr Vernon Greer (born May 16, 1976 in Voorhees , New Jersey ) is a former American basketball player who played as a professional in various other positions in Italy and the Ukraine for a long time and from 2010 to 2012 for the New York Phantoms from Braunschweig was active in the German basketball league .

Greer studied at Florida State University in Tallahassee and was there from 1994 to 1998 for the college team Seminoles in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the NCAA Division I. With Greers, the Seminoles , who had previously reached the quarter-finals of the Elite Eight in the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship with the later NBA champion Sam Cassell in 1993 , were able to qualify again in 1998 for the NCAA final tournament, in which they were in the second round after renewal were subject to the Crusaders of Valparaiso University . After his studies he played for various clubs in the short-lived International Basketball League from 1999 to 2001, which later became part of the Continental Basketball Association .

At the beginning of the 2000/01 season he signed his first contract in Europe in Naples, Italy . At the beginning of the season in mid-October 2000, the contract was dissolved again and Greer initially returned to his home country before he returned to Basket Napoli at the end of the season in the second division Serie A2 in February 2001 and from then on played in Europe. In the play-offs, the southern Italians failed as main round second in the final of a remaining promotion place in the first division Serie A . In the following season he moved to the league competitor from Messina in the second division, now dubbed LegADue. Pallacanestro Messina was also runner-up in the main round in 2002 and failed in the semi-finals of the play-offs for the remaining promotion place to Greer's ex-club from Naples, which this time made it to the top division by winning the play-offs. Greer then moved back to Naples and played in the 2002/03 season in Serie A, where they reached seventh place after the main round and were eliminated in the quarter-finals for the championship.

Greer then moved to the 2003 Russian Cup winner UNICS from Kazan . With this club he won the first ever FIBA ​​Europa League in 2004, later known as the EuroChallenge . In the following season he was active in the neighboring country Ukraine in Kiev and was able to win the national championship with BC Kiev in 2005, but had to let the Russian club Dynamo St. Petersburg win the title in the final of the FIBA ​​Europa League. In the following season they lost in front of their home crowd in the semi-finals of the FIBA ​​Euro Cup competition against the eventual title holder Joventut de Badalona . In 2007 Greer moved to the Greek first division A1 Ethniki at Olympia in Larisa . With this club he reached the play-offs for the championship, where they eliminated in the first round against the eventual champions Panathinaikos Athens . After a season in Cyprus in 2008/09, he played in the 2009/10 season in Nahariya, Israel .

In 2010 he was signed as an experienced player in the playmaker position by the German Bundesliga club New Yorker Phantoms. With the Phantoms he reached the final of the German Cup in his first season in 2011 , which was just lost to the organizing defending champion and double winner Brose Baskets from Bamberg , and the play-offs for the championship as fifth in the main round, the Braunschweiger's best placement Association for eight years. In 2011/2012 the Phantoms were able to move into the play-offs, but had to admit defeat again in the quarterfinals. Due to some injuries and a change of coach, Greer did not receive a new contract in Braunschweig for the 2012/2013 season. For the following season Greer was obliged by the Finnish first division club Kouvot from Kouvola . In 2013 he ended his active career.

Web links

• LaMarr Greer (NewYorker Phantoms) - player profile on the statistics pages of the basketball leagues
• LaMarr Greer | EuroChallenge 2009 | FIBA Europe - Profile & competition statistics as of 2009 on the FIBA ​​Europe website (English)
• Lamarr Greer - player profile on the statistics pages of Lega Basket Serie A (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael McGarry: LaMarr Greer back coaching at home after spending years abroad playing pro basketball . In: The Press of Atlantic City , February 8, 2014. Retrieved November 30, 2014.