Spencer Butterfield

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Basketball player
Spencer Butterfield
Butterfield 2017 in the Nanterre shirt
Player information
Full name Spencer Darren Butterfield
birthday October 11, 1992
place of birth Provo (UT), USA
size 189 cm
position Shooting Guard
college Utah State
Club information
society Alba Berlin
league Basketball Bundesliga
Jersey number 21st
Clubs as active
2010–2012 Yuba College 49ers (CCCAA) 2012–2014 Utah State Aggies ( NCAA ) 2014–2015 Club Melilla Baloncesto 2015–2016 Juventus Utena 2016–2017 Nanterre 92 Since 2017 Alba BerlinUnited StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
SpainSpain
LithuaniaLithuania
FranceFrance
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Spencer Darren Butterfield (born October 11, 1992 in Provo , Utah ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Butterfield began a professional career in Europe in 2014, where, after stints in Spain and Lithuania , he played for the French club Nanterre 92 in the 2016/17 season , with whom he competed in the French Cup and the 2016/17 FIBA ​​Europe Cup won. In the latter, still relatively young competition, he also set individual records with eleven successful three-point throws and a total of 39 points in one game. For the 2017/18 basketball Bundesliga , Butterfield moved to the German first division club Alba Berlin.

Career

After graduating from Del Oro High School in Loomis , California , Butterfield began studying at Yuba Community College in neighboring Yuba County in 2010 . Here he was also active for the college team 49ers , which are organized in the Bay Valley Conference of the California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA). In his second year Butterfield reached the final game of the CCCAA with the Yuba 49ers, which was lost. Butterfield then got a sports scholarship for postgraduate studies at Utah State University , where he played for the Aggies first in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). However, the Aggies missed qualifying for the national NCAA finals in their final year in the WAC as well as their premiere in the Mountain West Conference (MWC) .

After completing his studies in 2014, Butterfield began a professional career that initially took him to the North African coast in the Spanish exclave of Melilla . Here he played for the local club in the second Spanish league LEB Oro and was able to improve slightly to ninth place with its team compared to the previous season. This was enough to qualify for the play-offs for the second remaining promotion place in the top division, but in the first round you lost both games against the eventual play-off winners Club Ourense Baloncesto . For the following 2015/16 season Butterfield moved to Lithuania, where he played for Juventus from Utena in the top national league LKL and in the newly introduced FIBA Europe Cup 2015/16 . The participation of the Lithuanian club in a continental competition was a first, in which the team successfully survived the two group phases, but lost and eliminated in the first play-off round in the round of 16 against KK Cibona Zagreb without a win. In the Lithuanian championship, after the bronze medal last year, the club also lost the series for third place against Lietuvos rytas Vilnius after losing the semi-final series against defending champion Žalgiris Kaunas .

After the NBA Summer League 2016 at Utah Jazz , Butterfield signed a contract with the Paris suburb club from Nanterre in the top French division LNB Pro A for the 2016/17 season . At the beginning of the season Butterfield was awarded the seventh game day based on the effectiveness rating and was also named “joueur du mois” ( German  player of the month ) by a French specialist portal at the end of November . At the end of December 2016 Butterfield was selected for the All-Star Game of the French League, which he won against a selection of French players together with, among others, Most Valuable Player John Roberson . Together with the Berlin- born Heiko Schaffartzik and Chris Warren in the backcourt as teammates, Butterfield clearly won the French cup competition Coupe de France in the final against the league rivals Le Mans Sarthe Basket . Butterfield also returned with this team to the FIBA Europe Cup 2016/17 , in which he converted eleven of 13 three-point throws in the quarter-final second leg with a 110-82 victory and set a new record in a single game of this competition or with 39 points in total a game that set a weekly record set by Roberson. After Nanterre 92, the team's new name , had defeated German representative Telekom Baskets Bonn in the semifinals in the addition of two games , they could also defeat Élan Chalon with Roberson in a purely French final and after the EuroChallenge 2014/15 , the Predecessor competition of the Europe Cup, achieve the second European title win for the club. In the French championship, however, the main round third Nanterre lost the local duel in the first play-off round against Paris-Levallois Basket and so also missed a triple .

For the Basketball Bundesliga 2017/18 Butterfield was signed by the former German series champion Alba Berlin. After Butterfield injured himself in preparation for the season, he took another break after a few missions due to persistent complaints at the end of the year and only came back shortly before the TOP FOUR cup tournament in the easycredit BBL cup 2018 . With his team, however, after a double-digit lead in the final quarter, he lost the final match against Bundesliga leaders FC Bayern Munich , who won their first title in a national cup competition in 50 years. The 2017/18 EuroCup also ended with a bit of disappointment for the Berlin team after they were eliminated from the eventual title winner Darüşşafaka SK Istanbul after the second group stage before reaching the play-off round.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Out-of-this-world Butterfield breaks newly-minted Roberson record. FIBA , March 15, 2017, accessed on April 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Player Information: Spencer Butterfield. Yuba College: yccd.edu, accessed April 14, 2018 (English, profile).
  3. ^ Spencer Butterfield, nuevo 'francotirador' del Club Melilla Baloncesto. Federación Española de Baloncesto , August 18, 2014, accessed April 14, 2018 (Spanish, Medien-Info Club Melilla).
  4. ↑ FEB.es: BUTTERFIELD, SPENCER DARREN. Federación Española de Baloncesto , accessed on April 14, 2018 (Spanish, player profile).
  5. ↑ Vincent Thollière: Spencer Butterfield nouvelle recrue de Nanterre. BeBasket.fr, July 20, 2016, accessed April 14, 2018 (French).
  6. ↑ Baptiste Salaville: Spencer Butterfield MVP de la journée septième. BeBasket.fr, November 8, 2016, accessed April 14, 2018 (French).
  7. ^ Gabriel Pantel-Jouve: Joueur du mois de novembre: Butterfield favori devant Cooper et Yeguete. BeBasket.fr, November 30, 2016, accessed April 14, 2018 (French).
  8. ↑ Spencer Butterfield - Joueurs. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed April 14, 2018 (French, player profile).
  9. ↑ Results of the match Français - Etrangers - All-Star Game 2016/17. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed April 14, 2018 (French, match statistics).
  10. ↑ Nanterre 92 crowned 2017 FIBA ​​Europe Cup champions. FIBA , April 25, 2017, accessed on April 14, 2018 (English, media information).
  11. ↑ Jan Buchholz: Spencer Butterfield strengthens the ALBA backcourt. Alba Berlin , July 26, 2017, accessed on April 14, 2018 (media information including a brief portrait).
  12. ↑ Jakob Lobach: Spencer Butterfield - His return to the old form is essential. Berliner Zeitung , February 13, 2018, accessed on April 14, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Basketball - Bayern cup winners for the first time in 50 years. Sportschau , February 18, 2018, accessed on April 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Butterfield, Spencer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butterfield, Spencer Darren (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Provo , Utah, USA