Paris Bryant

Paris Bryant
Player information
Full name	Paris Nathan Bryant
birthday	March 20, 1970
place of birth	Louisville (KY), United States
size	183 cm
position	Point guard
college	Wyoming
Clubs as active
1990–1991 Wyoming Cowboys ( NCAA ) 1993–1998 Oberwart Gunners 1998 Ducato Siena 1999 Serapide Pozzuoli 1999–2000 AE Larisa 2000–2001 Brandt Hagen 2001–2002 Oberwart Gunners 2002 Opel Skyliners 2002 see Oliver Baskets Würzburg 2002–2003 Drac Inca 2003 UD Oliveirense 2003–2004 Cantabria Lobos 2004–2005 Comets Oberwaltersdorf 2005 WBC Wels 2006 Club Melilla Baloncesto 2007 BasketClubs Vienna 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000

Paris Bryant (born March 20, 1970 in Louisville , Kentucky ) is a former American basketball player who also has Austrian citizenship. After graduating, Bryant moved to Austria as a professional and was naturalized in the late 1990s . As a result, Bryant played in various European leagues, including several clubs in the German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). Bryant was most recently active as a player in Vienna in 2007 . After the end of his career, Bryant returned to his homeland.

Career

Born in Louisville, Bryant went to school across the Ohio River in Jeffersonville . As a talented basketball player, he got a scholarship from the University of Wyoming in Laramie , for whose college team Cowboys he played until 1991 in the Western Athletic Conference of the NCAA Division I. The Cowboys had won the Conference in 1987 and 1988, but Bryant missed another championship in 1991 in a team together with the later NBA pros Reggie Slater and Tim Breaux . Subsequently, Bryant lost the academic approval for the NCAA and could therefore no longer play for the Cowboys. Bryant was thus without a presentation opportunity in the most important recruiting league, which represents the NCAA for the highest endowed professional league NBA.

So Bryant decided to start a professional career in Europe and in 1993 he joined the “UBC Stahlbau” from Oberwart, Austria . The Burgenland club just missed promotion to the top national league in 1994 and only rose to the Austrian basketball league, which was still known as the “A-League” in 1995, after an undefeated season . At the final tournament in the 1995 basketball cup , the B-League club defeated all the first division and won a national title for the first time. In 1997, in the second first division season, they reached the final series for the championship, which UBC St. Pölten won for the third time in a row. In the following season 1997/98 they survived the qualifying round of the European club competition Korać Cup and won the regular season with 16 wins from 18 games. In the championship final series, however, you again had to let double winner St. Pölten go ahead.

After Bryant acquired Austrian citizenship , he no longer occupied a foreign position in European teams as a result of the Bosman decision . For the season 1998/99 he was then committed by the Italian first division club Mens Sana Basket from Siena , which at that time carried the sponsor name "Ducato". At the turn gave Tuscan it to the second division Serapide from the southern Italian Pozzuoli from. The second division team just moved to neighboring Naples and was later renamed Basket Napoli . For the 1999/2000 season, Bryant moved to the second Greek league A2 Ethniki for the Thessalonian club AE from Larisa , which, however, placed in the lower third of the table.

In 2000 Bryant returned to German-speaking countries. The former Leverkusen master coach Dirk Bauermann had trained the Greek second division Apollon Patras in the 1999/2000 season and brought Paris Bryant to Brandt Hagen from Greece alongside Daren Queenan on his return to the German BBL. Also for the BBL 2000/01 Bryants teammate from college Tim Breaux was committed, who now also played in Europe after NBA stations. In this way, the traditional Westphalian club should be brought back to the top of the national league. However, the former NBA champion Breaux left the club prematurely after ten games and was replaced with Drew Barry by another former NBA professional. Bryant showed an average of 18 points per game, still reasonably decent performance, but the season failed almost completely and the club was only able to ensure relegation after only nine wins in 26 games of the regular season in a qualifying round. Bauermann initially returned to Greece, while Bryant rejoined the Gunners from Oberwart.

At the beginning of 2002, Bryant left the Oberwarter again and returned to the German BBL, where he was used by the Opel Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main for a game against his former club from Hagen. However, Bryant was no longer obliged and passed on from Skyliners trainer Gordon Herbert , who had trained the Oberwarter in the 1999/2000 season, to the league competitor X-Rays from Würzburg , whom Herbert had previously trained. With the Würzburgers, Bryant just missed the play-offs for the German championship in the 2001/02 BBL . For the season 2002/03 Bryant signed a contract in the Spanish second division LEB Oro . After a monthly contract in November, he was signed in December for the rest of the season by the Balearic club from Inca , which only secured relegation in play-downs . He then moved to the Iberian neighboring country Portugal for the championship play-offs and was runner-up in 2003 with União Desportiva from Oliveira de Azeméis . In the following 2003/04 season he played again in the LEB Oro for the Cantabrian Santander based association "Alerta Cantabria Lobos" with which he missed the play-offs for promotion to the highest Spanish league.

In 2004, Bryant returned to his adopted home Austria for family reasons and played in the top national league, now known as the ÖBL, for the Comets from Oberwaltersdorf in the ÖBL 2004/05 . In the basic round, they only just missed the championship round with ninth place. While in Bryant was still nominated for the All-Star Game of the ÖBL in January 2005 for the Comets , he moved two weeks later to league competitor WBC in Wels , who missed the leap into the play-offs in the championship round. In the first half of 2006, Bryant had an engagement in the LEB Oro in Melilla , where he completed only three games in April 2006. The following year, at the age of 37, he made another comeback at BasketClubs from Vienna. After a few games at the beginning of the season he was released there again.

Web links

• FEB: BRYANT, PARIS NATHAN - Profile on the statistics pages of FEB (Spanish)
• Paris Bryant (s.Oliver Baskets) - Profile on the statistics pages of the Basketball Bundesliga (as of 2002)
• Paris Nathan Bryant | Korac Cup 1999 | FIBA Europe - Profile and statistics from competitions of FIBA Europe (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Academics sideline 2 Wyoming players. (No longer available online.) Houston Chronicle , December 29, 1991, formerly original ; Retrieved June 3, 2012 ( Associated Press article in news archive).  ( 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.    
2. ↑ Legabasket: Paris Bryant. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed June 3, 2012 (Italian, profile on the league's statistics pages). 
3. ↑ Opel Skyliners do not sign Paris Bryant! Schoenen-Dunk.de, February 27, 2002, accessed on June 3, 2012 (reproduction of a press release from Opel Skyliners). 
4. ↑ Que grande crueldade! (No longer available online.) Record , June 18, 2003, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 3, 2012 (Portuguese).  ( 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.    
5. ↑ Oberwaltersdorf gets Paris Bryant. (No longer available online.) Sportlive.at, October 24, 2004, archived from the original on December 17, 2004 ; Retrieved June 3, 2012 . 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.  
6. ↑ The All-Stars have been chosen. (No longer available online.) Sportlive.at, January 24, 2005, archived from the original on May 28, 2005 ; Retrieved June 3, 2012 . 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.  
7. Jump up ↑ Basketball: Wels suspends Guard Mitchell. Der Standard , February 14, 2005, accessed June 3, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Pirate duty done, now comes hard freestyle. Kleine Zeitung , November 1, 2007, archived from the original on November 2, 2007 .