Orlando Lightfoot

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Orlando Lightfoot (born December 4, 1974 ) is a retired American basketball player .

Life

Lightfoot played basketball as a teenager at Chattanooga High School in the US state of Tennessee and then at Hiwassee Junior College. Between 1991 and 1994, the two-meter-tall winger was part of the University of Idaho's team in the first NCAA division. In all three years in Idaho he achieved an average of more than 20 points per game per season, his highest value he posted in 1993/94 when he came to 25.4 points per game. With 2102 points he was at the top of the university team's eternal basket hunter list. In 1993 he brought it to 50 points in one game, also setting a record for the University of Idaho. In 1993 and 1994, Lightfoot was named Player of the Year at the Big Sky Conference . In 2008 he was accepted into the university's sports hall of fame in recognition of his sporting success.

Despite his outstanding statistics, the winger was not selected by any team in the NBA drafting process in 1994, but then trained with the Los Angeles Clippers , but was removed from the squad before the start of the season. Lightfoot left the United States, played for the Olimpia BBC in Argentina and in the 1994/95 season for nine games (16.8 points / game) also for the French first division club Le Mans . After recovering from a knee injury, the American triumphed in Geneva, Switzerland in the 1995/96 season with an average of 27.3 points per match, and in 1996/97 he played at Echo Houthalen in Belgium . During the playing year he was under contract with Versoix (Switzerland) and then again in 1998/99 with Echo Houthalen.

In 1999, Lightfoot moved to Braunschweig for the basketball Bundesliga in Germany , where he achieved 21.9 points per match in 26 games in the 1999/2000 game year, and he also collected an average of 6.9 rebounds per game. He hit 84 of his 194 three-point throws, which corresponded to a good success rate of 43.3 percent. In the 2000/01 season he was also part of the Braunschweig team. The Lower Saxony got into economic difficulties, Lightfoot left Braunschweig after 15 games this season (16.4 points / game) and moved in February 2001 to the Mallorcan team Drac Inca in the second division of Spain .

In August 2001, the winger, known as an accurate distance shooter, was signed by Herzogtel Trier and returned to the Bundesliga. In 35 Bundesliga appearances in the colors of the Moselaner, Lightfoot achieved an average of 18.2 points and 8.1 rebounds per match in 2001/02 and reached the Bundesliga championship round with Trier, as in his first year in Braunschweig. In the 2002/03 season, the American was under contract with the Lebanese club Antranik, but left the team for security reasons when the US forces began to take military  action in Iraq .

In the 2003/04 season, Lightfoot was in the service of the Austrian Bundesliga club BSC Raiffeisen Panthers Fürstenfeld and scored 24.9 points per game, in 2004/05 he played in the Netherlands for Bergen op Zoom (17.7 points / game). In November 2005 he was signed by the Swedish first division club Jämtland Basket. In spring 2006 he left Sweden in the direction of Avanti Mondorf (Luxembourg), but returned to Jämtland Basket for the 2006/07 season. There, in his last year as a professional basketball player, Lightfoot scored an average of 20.8 points per match in 27 appearances.

He returned to the United States and worked as an employee of a trucking company before moving to Chattanooga as a child and youth carer in 2014 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lightfoot Picks Juco Over Sooners. June 14, 1989, Retrieved September 8, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ Orlando Lightfoot College Stats. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Orlando Lightfoot (2008) - Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Orlando Lightfoot Player Profile, Awards - RealGM. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ https://www.cdapress.com/archive/article-e164583d-9405-5c20-b411-6b354ba8df6e.html  ( 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.cdapress.com  
  6. ↑ https://www.archivohistoricovenado.com.ar/uploads/r/archivo-historico-digital-de-venado-tuerto/5/1/5/515e9f59f0173cbf1c3c10cfc5cf7540339f524adf63a5501e60b3d7d7aa33530/O_Semanario_L28
  7. ↑ LIGHTFOOT Orlando | LNB.fr. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ CARTES D'IDENTITE DES EQUIPES DE DIVISION 1 EN BASKET. Retrieved September 8, 2019 (French).
  9. ↑ http://doc.rero.ch/record/113374/files/1998-01-28.pdf
  10. ↑ a b Orlando Lightfoot Basketball Player Profile, KFUM Jamtland Basket, Idaho, News, Basketligan stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - eurobasket. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .
  11. ↑ https://www.easycredit-bbl.de/de/statistiken/player/portraits/p/1551-orlando-ligthfoot/
  12. ↑ Dino Reisner: Braunschweig declares its solidarity with Bundesliga basketball . January 7, 2001 ( welt.de [accessed September 8, 2019]).
  13. ↑ https://www.dbalears.cat/poliesportiu/2001/02/22/53215/lightfoot-nou-jugador-de-l-inca.html
  14. ↑ http://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a178_TBB-Trier_Lightfood-wird-Thompson-Nach Nahrungsmittel.htm
  15. ^ The US-led military action against Iraq has struck hard. In: dailystar.com. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .
  16. ↑ https://www.proballers.com/basketball/player/14779/orlando-lightfoot
  17. ↑ https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=78&artikel=742007
  18. ↑ SBL Mr. | Sida 1698478. Retrieved September 8, 2019 (sv-SE).
  19. ↑ No. 28 Idaho's Orlando Lightfoot. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Lightfoot takes the lead at Boys and Girls Club. 2014, accessed September 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lightfoot, Orlando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1974