Othello Hunter

Othello Hunter
Player information
Full name	Tegba Othello Hunter
birthday	May 28, 1986 (34 years and 96 days)
place of birth	Winston-Salem (NC), USA
size	203 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
college	Ohio State
Club information
society	real Madrid
league	League ACB
Clubs as active
2004–2006 Hillsborough Hawks (NJCAA) 2006–2008 Ohio State Buckeyes ( NCAA ) 2008–2010 Atlanta Hawks → 2009 Anaheim Arsenal 2010 Ilisiakos Athens 2010–2011 Banco di Sardegna Sassari 2011–2012 Shandong Lions ( ChBA ) 2012 BK Azovmasch Mariupol 2012– 2013 Blancos de Rueda Valladolid 2013 Jiangsu Dragons (ChBA) 2013–2014 Montepaschi Siena 2014–2016 Olympiacos Piraeus Since 2016 Real Madrid 000 00000 00000 00000 0

Tegba Othello Hunter (born May 28, 1986 in Winston-Salem , North Carolina ) is an American - Liberian basketball player . After studying in his native country, Hunter began a career as a professional player, in which he also initially played in the NBA , the most highly endowed professional league . From 2010 Hunter continued his career in Europe and the People's Republic of China . With his respective teams, Hunter was Ukrainian runner-up in 2012 and Italian runner-up in 2014 . Since the 2014/15 season, Hunter has continued his career with the Greek runner-up Olympiacos in Greece .

Career

After graduating from Richard J. Reynolds High School in his native town, Hunter first went to the Hillsborough Community College in Tampa Bay in 2004 , where he played in Florida for the Hawks high school team in the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association (NJCAA) . After two years, he got a place for postgraduate studies at Ohio State University in 2006 , where he played for the Buckeyes college team in the NCAA's Big Ten Conference . The team won the 2007 Big Ten championship tournament and moved into the national NCAA finals tournament for the first time since the successful period in the early 1960s in the final game, in which the Buckeyes were defeated by defending champions Gators of the University of Florida . After his teammates Greg Oden were selected in first and Mike Conley, Jr. in fourth and Daequan Cook in 21st position in the subsequent NBA draft in 2007 , the Buckeyes not only missed their title defense in the Big Ten, but also the invitation the following year to the NCAA finals. Instead, they took part in the National Invitation Tournament , which they won in 2008 twenty years after their first title win in this competition with a final victory over the Minutemen of the University of Massachusetts . This ended Hunter's college career, but despite the NCAA successes, he was not selected in the 2008 NBA Draft by any NBA club.

It was only through the NBA Summer League that Hunter was able to earn a place in a squad of NBA clubs when the Atlanta Hawks signed him. In the NBA 2008/09 Hunter completed 16 short missions and he was briefly handed over to the farm team Anaheim Arsenal in the NBA Development League in February 2009 in order to collect match practice in three missions. In the NBA 2009/10 Hunter came only seven missions before his contract was terminated in early January 2010. In March 2010, Hunter joined the club Ilisiakos from the Greek capital Athens , who only managed to stay in the top division A1 Ethniki thanks to the better direct comparison . For the 2010/11 season Hunter moved for the first time to the Italian Lega Basket Serie A to the promoted Banco di Sardegna from Sassari in Sardinia . He immediately made it into the play-offs for the title in sixth place . In the first round, however, they eliminated after an opening win in Milan in four games against record champions Olimpia Armani Milan .

For the 2011/12 season, Hunter signed a contract with the Chinese Basketball Association (ChBA) with the Shandong Lions from Jinan . However, the Lions missed the final round for the title and Hunter played from February 2012 in the Basketball Superliga Ukraine for BK Azovmasch from Mariupol . The former series champion managed to return to the play-off final series, but this was lost to former runner-up BK Donetsk , trained by Saša Obradović . In the 2012/13 season Hunter played in the Spanish ACB league for Blancos de Rueda from Valladolid . On the basis of his effectiveness values , Hunter was "Player of the Week" on the sixth match day, but the team could not improve significantly, even if it was enough to keep the league from third from bottom this time. Hunter was then again briefly under contract with the ChBA before he decided to return to Europe for the 2013/14 season, where he played in Serie A for the previous series champion Montepaschi from Siena . After financial cuts by the ailing main sponsor Monte dei Paschi di Siena , the championship team had broken up. After having already been eliminated after the preliminary round in the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 and in the intermediate round of the Eurocup 2013/14 , it was still enough as the defending champion to move into the final series for the Italian championship. Here they were in the front after five games in the series, but after the two subsequent defeats Hunter not only lost a play-off final series like in 2012, but also a play-off series against the new title winner Olimpia Armani Milan, like in 2011. For the 2014/15 season Hunter was signed by Olympiacos from Piraeus , the Greek runner-up in A1 Ethniki , with whom he will play again in the ULEB Euroleague .

successes

• Greek champion : 2015 , 2016

Web links

• HUNTER, OTHELLO - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• Othello Hunter - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• Othello Hunter Biography - Profile on Ohio State University's sports website (as of June 29, 2007)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hillsborough Community College - Alumni (Men's Basketball). (No longer available online.) Hillsborough CC: hccfl.edu, archived from the original on August 9, 2014 ; accessed on August 5, 2014 (English, chronological listing). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Legabasket: Othello Hunter. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed August 5, 2014 (Italian, player profile). 
3. ↑ ACB.COM: Othello Hunter. Liga ACB , accessed on August 5, 2014 (Spanish, player profile). 
4. ↑ Olympiacos brings in rebounder Hunter. ULEB , July 8, 2014, accessed August 5, 2014 .