Walter Palmer

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Basketball player
Walter Palmer
Player information
Full name Walter Scott Palmer
birthday 23rd October 1968 (age 51)
place of birth Ithaca , New York , United States
size 214 cm
position center
college Dartmouth
NBA draft 1990 , 33. Pick, Utah Jazz
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Walter Scott Palmer (born October 23, 1968 in Ithaca , New York ) is a former American basketball player who has played 48 games in the US professional league NBA for several clubs in the German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). After the end of his career as an active player, Palmer became involved in representing the interests of professional basketball players, initially at German and European level. After three years as head of the professional athletes division of UNI Global Union , Palmer moved to NBPA in 2014 as Director of international relations and marketing , which he left after only six months.

Career

After finishing school, Walter Palmer, like his ancestors, moved to Dartmouth College in 1986 , while his two year younger brother Crawford Palmer moved to Duke University two years later . Crawford Palmer, who later became a French national basketball player after marrying a French basketball selection player and was a silver medalist at the 2000 Olympic Games , moved to Dartmouth College after winning the Duke Blue Devils' first title in the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship in 1991. At that time, his brother Walter had already completed his studies as one of the best shot blockers in the history of the Big Green basketball team and was selected in the 1990 NBA draft in the second round in 33rd position by the Utah Jazz.

In the 1990/91 season , however, Walter Palmer was only used in 28 games for the Jazz from Salt Lake City , in which he got no more than three minutes on average. In the following season he therefore played in the German BBL in Ludwigsburg . In the following season, the Dallas Mavericks took him under contract, for which he made only 20 games, although his playing time doubled to a good six minutes per game in the NBA 1992/93 . Palmer left the NBA for Europe and first played in the Spanish ACB league in Huesca . For the 1993/94 season he returned to Ludwigsburg in the BBL. Two years earlier, Ludwigsburg had been able to reach the play-off semi- finals for the German basketball championship and the cup final with Palmer as first in the south group , but Palmer missed the play-offs with the team that season. Then Palmer kept fit with the French third division club from Fos-sur-Mer in Provence , where his brother Crawford was already playing, before Walter moved to Milan in January 1995 to the local Italian record champions Olimpia , who started that season under the sponsor name Stefanel . While Stefanel lost the final in the European Korać Cup against the German representative Alba Berlin that season, they also missed the 25th Italian championship title with the Palmer, who was used exclusively in the national championship.

In the following 1995/96 season Palmer played in Argentina before he was under contract again in the German BBL in Gießen in the 1996/97 season . While he reached the cup final with the MTV, he again missed the play-offs for the German championship with the team, which he should succeed in the two following seasons with his new team in Bamberg . In the 1997/98 season he made after a good third place in the main round of the meanwhile single-track BBL with the TTL the jump into the play-off semifinals, which was lost to the surprise team of that season ratiopharm Ulm . In the following season they failed after an eighth main round place in the quarter-finals at the then serial champion Alba Berlin. After a year at Le Mans in France in the LNB Pro A , Palmer played again in the BBL for the Opel Skyliners from Frankfurt in the 2000/01 season . The Skyliners only just reached the play-offs with the eighth main round place and Palmer and his team were eliminated again in the quarter-finals against Alba Berlin. After a back operation, Palmer sat out in the 2001/02 season, before returning to his German home club in Ludwigsburg for two games in the 2002/03 season and continuing the season in Braunschweig . The Brunswick team lost after a good third place in the main round in the play-off semifinals against Alba, from Palmer's point of view for the repeated time. After the season Palmer ended his active career, among other things because he did not want to give up his US citizenship .

After his active career, Palmer became the chairman of the interest group SP.IN (Basketball Player Initiative), which was founded in 2005 and which he initially headed as general secretary. After he was in the meantime still active as a player and coach in Bamberg, Palmer acted in the meantime as Secretary General of the European umbrella organizations UBE ( Union Basketteurs d'Europe ) for basketball players and the European Elite Athletes Association (short: EU Athletes ) for cross-sport interest groups. From 2011 Palmer worked as Secretary General of UNI Sports PRO within the UNI Global Union , based in Nyon on Lake Geneva , before moving back to his home country for the NBPA in 2014 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b UNI Sport PRO Head of Department, Walter Palmer, to take position with NBA Players Union. UNI Global Union , December 1, 2014, accessed April 23, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Scott Soshnick: Palmer Leaves NBA Union Marketing Post After Six Months. Bloomberg LP , June 23, 2015, accessed April 23, 2017 .
  3. ^ Robert Lohrer: Two Decades Later Brother Act returns to WL. The Washington Post , February 27, 1986, accessed April 23, 2017 (Repro in the news archive).
  4. ^ Men's Basketball Individual Records. Dartmouth College , September 19, 2006, accessed April 12, 2010 (English, personal best list).
  5. ↑ a b ACB.COM: Walter Palmer. Liga ACB , accessed on April 23, 2017 (Spanish, profile with individual statistics).
  6. ↑ Legabasket - Walter Palmer. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed April 12, 2010 (Italian, profile with individual statistics).
  7. ↑ TXU Energie Braunschweig tests Walter Palmer. Schoenen-Dunk.de, September 4, 2002, accessed on April 12, 2010 (Medien-Info TXU Energie Braunschweig).
  8. ↑ Ludwigsburg separates from its two Americans. Schoenen-Dunk.de, October 10, 2002, accessed on April 12, 2010 (Medien-Info EnBW Ludwigsburg).
  9. ↑ Michael Wendt: Palmer will no longer work for TXU Braunschweig in the future. Schoenen-Dunk.de, August 5, 2003, accessed on April 23, 2017 (Medien-Info TXU Energie Braunschweig).
  10. ^ SID : Basketball player initiative SP.IN eV founded. Handelsblatt , October 5, 2005, archived from the original on May 3, 2016 ; Retrieved April 12, 2010 .
  11. ^ Organization: UBE Union Basketteurs d'Europe. UBEPlayers.com, accessed April 12, 2010 (English, list of leaders).
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palmer, Walter Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player and official
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Ithaca (City, New York)