Nik Caner Medley

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Basketball player
Nik Caner Medley
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Player information
Full name Niklas Anthony Caner Medley
Nickname Nik
birthday October 20, 1983 (36 years and 317 days)
place of birth Beverly , Massachusetts , United States
size 203 cm
position Small forward / power forward
college Maryland (College Park)
Clubs as active
2002–2006 UMCP Terrapins ( NCAA ) 2007 Artland Dragons 2007 Sioux Falls Skyforce 2007–2008 Kalise Gran Canaria 2008–2009 Cajasol Sevilla 2009–2011 Asefa Estudiantes Madrid 2011–2012 Valencia Basket Club 2012–2013 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2013–2014 Unicaja Málaga 2014 –2016 BK Astana 2016–2017 AS Monaco 2017–2019 CB Estudiantes 2019–2020 Ibaraki Robots Since 2020 Fos Provence BasketUnited StatesUnited States
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Niklas Anthony "Nik" Caner-Medley (born October 20, 1983 in Beverly , Massachusetts ) is an American basketball player who has been a citizen of Azerbaijan since December 2011 .

After completing his studies Caner-Medley began a professional career with several stations in the Spanish ACB league after he could not earn a place in a squad of a club in the NBA . In the basketball Bundesliga 2006/07 Caner-Medley with the Artland Dragons was German runner-up and cup winner. In the Eurocup 2011/12 he reached the final with the Valencia Basket Club and was chosen among the five best players in this competition.

Career

Caner-Medley was a highly regarded and talented basketball player while in high school and was named Maine High School Player of the Year 2002 while at Deering High School in Portland , Maine . To study Caner-Medley moved to the University of Maryland, College Park , whose college team Terrapins , also known as Terps for short, plays in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) of the NCAA . With the winner of the national NCAA finals in 2002, he reached the finals again in the following two years, without being able to build on the success of 2002. In 2003 the defending champion was able to reach the last sixteen, but in 2004 the winner of the strong ACC championship lost in the second round against NCAA defending champion Orangemen of Syracuse University . In the following two years, the Terps, in which Caner-Medley played with Ekene Ibekwe , who would later also be active for the Artland Dragons in Germany, no longer qualified for the finals of the NCAA championship, but only participated at the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). In the NIT you could reach the semifinals in 2005, in which you were defeated by the later title winner Gamecocks of the University of South Carolina .

After Caner Medley was not selected in the 2006 NBA Draft , he was signed by the Detroit Pistons for the NBA Summer League , in which, however, he broke his foot, which forced him to take a break of several months. In February 2007 he returned to the field and made his professional debut with the Dragons from the Artland community in the 2006/07 Basketball Bundesliga . At the end of April 2006 they lost the cup final against the then champion RheinEnergie Köln with just two points. While Caner-Medley then suffered a metacarpal fracture, his teammates were able to defeat the main round first ALBA Berlin and the defending champion RheinEnergie Cologne in the play-offs for the championship and move into the final series for the championship for the first time. There, however, despite the support of the recovered Caner Medley, they lost to the Brose Baskets from Bamberg. In the summer of 2007 he played in the NBA summer league for the Sacramento Kings , which did not take him for the season under contract, so that he finally tackled the 2007/08 season for the Skyforce from Sioux Falls in the NBA Development League .

At the end of December 2007, Caner-Medley returned to Europe and signed a contract with the club from Gran Canaria in the Spanish ACB league . Caner-Medley was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the 20th match day of the ACB League, but with his club in ninth place after the main round just missed the play-offs for the Spanish championship. With Cajasol from Seville he only managed to stay in the top Spanish league in the following season 2008/09. After he had played in the 2008 NBA Summer League for the Los Angeles Lakers , he was also denied a contract for a full NBA season during his engagement for the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2009 NBA Summer League. In the following two seasons he played for CB Asefa Estudiantes from the Spanish capital Madrid . In the 2009/10 season he was named Player of the Month in May 2010, but lost in the first round of the play-offs against the Basque club and eventual title winner Caja Laboral . In the following season 2010/11 he was voted one of the five best players of the entire season after he was four times player of the game day and three times player of the month and at the end of the season had the best average effectiveness of all players in the ACB league. However, his club Asefa Estudiantes could not reach the play-offs for the championship.

Caner-Medley was signed by the Valencia basketball club for the 2011/12 season . With this he was eliminated in the semi-final series of the championship play-offs against defending champions FC Barcelona , who later won the championship again. After he was eliminated in the quarter-finals with Asefa Estudiantes in the Eurocup 2010/11 , he reached the final with Valencia in the Eurocup 2011/12 , which was lost to hosts BK Chimki . Caner-Medley achieved a double-double and a final record effectiveness value of 38 in the final with 23 points and eleven rebounds , having previously been voted among the five best players in the competition. In December 2011, Caner-Medley, like his compatriot Jaycee Carroll, who also worked in Spain, received citizenship of Azerbaijan . In contrast to Carroll, Caner-Medley did not take part in the qualification for the 2013 European basketball championship in summer 2012 , in which the Azerbaijani national basketball team was eliminated against Germany, among others . For the following season 2012/13 Caner-Medley was then signed by the Israeli series champion Maccabi from Tel Aviv . With Maccabi, Caner-Medley took part for the first time at the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 , where they were eliminated in the quarter-final play-offs against Real Madrid . In the final of the Israeli championship you had to accept a rare final defeat against Maccabi Haifa and could not defend the national championship title.

After just one season Caner-Medley returned to the ACB league in Spain and played for the Euroleague participant Unicaja from Malaga in the 2013/14 season . With BK Astana he became Kazakh champion in 2015 and won the French league cup with AS Monaco in the 2016/17 season. From 2017 to 2019, the American played again for Estudiantes in Spain.

In the 2019/20 season he scored an average of 18.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per match for the Japanese team Ibaraki Robots, and in the 2020 summer break he moved to Fos Provence Basket in the French second division.

successes

  • Cup winner Israel 2013
  • Champion Kazakhstan 2015
  • All-Eurocup First Team 2011/12

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caner Medley becomes a dragon. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , February 26, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 17, 2013 (Media Info Artland Dragons).  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.basketball-bundesliga.de  
  2. ^ Niklas Anthony Caner Medley (Artland Dragons). Basketball Bundesliga , 2007, accessed on March 17, 2013 (profile on statistics pages).
  3. ↑ Dragons-Titan condemned to watch. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , May 21, 2007, accessed on October 13, 2015 .
  4. ^ Nik Caner Medley D-League Stats. Basketball-Reference.com, accessed on March 17, 2013 (English, player statistics).
  5. ↑ BC Khimki vs. Valencia Basket. ULEB , April 15, 2012, accessed on March 17, 2013 (English, match report).
  6. ^ Caner Medley, Valencia enter record book. ULEB , April 15, 2012, accessed March 17, 2013 .
  7. ↑ 2011-12 All-Eurocup First Team. ULEB , April 5, 2012, accessed March 17, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Julián Felipo: Carroll y Caner-Medley consiguen su pasaporte. Mundo Deportivo , December 10, 2011, accessed March 17, 2013 (Spanish).
  9. ^ Maccabi Electra tabs All-Eurocup forward Caner-Medley. ULEB , July 10, 2012, accessed March 17, 2013 .
  10. ↑ UNICAJA MALAGA fortifies frontcourt with Caner-Medley. (No longer available online.) August 22, 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 22, 2013 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.euroleague.net  
  11. ↑ Nik Caner Medley: TRAYECTORIA Y LOGROS. In: ACB. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
  12. ↑ BasketActu.com: Nik Caner-Medley, le gros coup de Fos Provence. June 18, 2020, accessed on August 30, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Caner Medley, Nik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caner Medley, Niklas Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Azerbaijani basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Beverly (Massachusetts) , USA