Charlie Villanueva

Charlie Villanueva ( born August 24, 1984 in Queens, New York City ) is an American- Dominican basketball player.

Childhood

Charlie Villanueva grew up as a Latino in Elmhurst, in Queens, New York on. His parents are Roberto Villanueva and Doris Mejia. He has always suffers from the disease alopecia areata.

Career

High School

He attended the High School of Newtown, (New York), among others, on the side of the former NBA professional Smush Parker. After a year he moved to the Blair Academy in Blairstown ( NJ ), where he ran aground along with Bulls forward Luol Deng. After he received several awards at national level, he wanted to first sign up for the NBA Draft 2003. However, he preferred to be first to go to college.

College

Charlie Villanueva wrote thereupon at the University of Connecticut, where he completed two seasons for the Huskies, while an average of 11.2 points per game and 6.7 rebounds hung up, which earned him election to the Big East All- Rookie Team. Now he finally felt ready for the NBA, and signed up for the final on Draft 2005.

NBA

Villanueva was drafted as part of the NBA Drafts 2005 seventh of the Toronto Raptors, in which he also played one season and reached statistics of 13.0 points and 6.4 rebounds. After his first year he was in exchange for TJ Ford transferred to the Bucks. From 2006 to 2008 he was able to achieve 11.8 points and 5.9 rebounds on average. The 2008-2009 season has been the most successful of his career. Until 1 April 2009, he was able to support his team with 16.5 points and 6.7 rebounds while he was standing on the court 26.9 minutes per game.

In June 2009, he signed a 5-year contract for a total of $ 35 million with the Detroit Pistons. It should support the Pistons along with the newly committed Ben Gordon as a kind of sixth man and he took in his first season to 78 games part where he came 62 times its role accordingly by the Bank into the game. Villanueva put on his Career at the rate of three in the season. The Pistons made ​​it to Villanueva 's first year not in the playoffs.

Awards

  • 2003 - New Jersey State High School Co - Player of the Year, along with Luol Deng
  • 2004 - Big East Conference All - Rookie Team
  • 2004 - Gold medal with the junior national team of the United States
  • 2005 - Big East Conference All - Second Team
  • 2005 - Toronto Raptors Community MVP Award
  • 2005 - Rookie of the month of December in the Eastern Conference
  • 2006 - Participants in the NBA Rookie Challenge in Houston
  • 2006 - Toronto Raptors Team record: 48 points in a game
  • 2006 - Toronto Raptors Team record: 18 rebounds in a game
  • 2006 - the second-best rookie of the year behind Chris Paul
  • 2006 - All- Rookie First elected to the NBA team
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