Raymar Morgan

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Basketball player
Raymar Morgan
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Player information
birthday August 8, 1988 (32 years and 24 days)
place of birth Canton , Ohio , United States
size 203 cm
position Power forward
college Michigan State
Clubs as active
2006–2010 MSU Spartans ( NCAA ) 2010–2011 Maccabi Rischon LeZion 2011 Ironi Aschkelon 2012–2013 Barak Netanja 2014–2015 BG Göttingen 2015 Panathinaikos Athens 2015–2017 ratiopharm ulm 2017- Tofaş Spor KulübüUnited StatesUnited States
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Raymar Morgan (born August 8, 1988 in Canton , Ohio ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Morgan began a professional career in Israel in 2010 , where he initially played for three years. Due to an injury, Morgan had to take a break from the 2013/14 season before making a comeback in the 2014/15 German basketball league against newly promoted BG Göttingen.

Career

Morgan graduated from Canton McKinley High School , which has a traditionally strong school basketball team, with which Morgan won the Ohio State Championships in 2005 and 2006. Morgan then got a place at Michigan State University , which has a very renowned basketball team in the NCAA with the Spartans college team in the Big Ten Conference under coach Tom Izzo . In the summer of 2007 Morgan was called up to the U19 national team of the United States, which moved undefeated into the final of the Junior World Cup in Serbia, in which, however, the hosts were defeated by five points. After a second round defeat with the Spartans at the national NCAA finals tournament in 2007, Morgan lost with his team in the round of 16 of the Sweet Sixteen 2008 against eventual finalists Tigers of the University of Memphis . A year later, the Spartans themselves reached the final in the prestigious tournament, which was lost to the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . A year later it was enough to make it into the Final Four , in which they were narrowly defeated in the semifinals by the Bulldogs of Butler University . Although Morgan could look back on a successful career with the Spartans, Morgan was not selected by any club in the subsequent entry draft of the highest endowed professional league NBA . In the NBA Summer League 2010 Morgan could audition again for the Washington Wizards , but he got no contract for the season.

In 2010, Morgan signed his first regular professional engagement in Israel, where he played in the Ligat ha'Al for Maccabi from Rishon LeZion . After finishing fifth in the regular season, Maccabi reached the final four tournament of the Israeli championship against Bnei hascharon in the play-offs , in which the defending champions and record champions Maccabi Tel Aviv were clearly defeated. Morgan was in the following pre-season at the Turkish club Pınar Karşıyaka under contract before returning to the Israeli league, where he completed the first seven games of the season for the former table bottom Ironi from Ashkelon . After a knee injury, however, the season ended early for him. For the 2012/13 season Morgan signed a contract with Barak Green Tops from Netanya , who finished fourth after the regular season. In the play-offs, however, they lost in the first round in five games against Hapoel Jerusalem . After an operation on the patellar tendon, Morgan paused the entire 2013/14 season and only signed a contract for the 2014/15 season with BG Göttingen, returning to the basketball league . With the promoted team, who moved close to the play-off positions after a good start to the season, Morgan advanced to the team's top scorer and best rebounder at the start of the season and was nominated for the BBL All-Star Game . In July 2015, ratiopharm ulm announced that Morgan had signed a two-year contract in Ulm. After his contract in Ulm he signed a contract with the Turkish club Tofaş Spor Kulübü .

Achievements & Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ archive.fiba.com: 2007 FIBA ​​U19 World Championship for Men - USA vs SERBIA. FIBA , July 22, 2007, accessed December 25, 2014 (English, final statistics).
  2. ↑ Doug Lesmerises: Michigan State's Raymar Morgan: Not a superstar, but former McKinley standout is a winner for the Spartans. Cleveland.com, March 31, 2010, accessed December 25, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Michael Geisendorf: BG Göttingen signs US forward Raymar Morgan. Göttinger Tageblatt , August 8, 2014, accessed December 25, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Beko BBL - 477 GÖ: Statistics. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on December 18, 2014 ; accessed on December 25, 2014 (individual statistics 2014/15 for Christmas 2014). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beko-bbl.de
  5. ↑ ALLSTAR squad: Twelve debutants nominated / Schaffartzik, Gavel, Taylor and Bryant come from the German champions. Basketball Bundesliga , December 17, 2014, accessed December 25, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Raymar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Canton , Ohio , United States