Courtney Pigram

Courtney Pigram Ray Leonard ( born November 14, 1985 in Memphis, Tennessee ) is an American professional basketball player. After completing his studies in his home country Pigram played as a professional first in Spain and China, before he was active in his home in the NBA Development League. Then Pigram also played in the German Basketball Bundesliga for the New Yorker Phantoms and the s.Oliver Baskets only on a temporary basis. Beginning of 2014 got Pigram a contract in the highest Greek A1 Ethniki league in Ilisiakos.

Career

Pigram won a place at East Tennessee State University in the east of his native State, where he played from 2005 for the high school team in the Atlantic Sun Conference Buccaneers NCAA. The Buccaneers, who were new to this Conference, reached 2007, the best record this season all teams in the Atlantic Sun and Pigram has been awarded as the " sophomore " as " Player of the Year " of his Conference. In the championship tournament to the finals but lost significantly against the defending champion Belmont Bruins. Two years later, in preventing the semi-final of the championship tournament, the fourth success in the Bruins series, in whose ranks with Alex Renfroe of the "Atlantic Sun Player of the Year 2009 " was, in the final and won himself the championship of the Atlantic Sun. Set in their regional group at the last place of the set list, you then lost the Erstrundenduell the national NCAA 2009 finals against the heavily favored Panthers of the University of Pittsburgh. After his four NCAA college seasons was Pigram with over 2,000 points achieved the third best scorer in the history of the Buccaneers as well as the third-best assist provider and fourth best " ball thief ".

After the end of the study Pigram 2009 began a career as a professional and played in the third Spanish league LEB Plata River for the club from Andorra. With the climber he reached a positive record this season and the play-offs for promotion to the second highest league, but in which one retired in the first round. At the beginning of 2011, Pigram played in the second highest Chinese league " National Basketball League of China" for Zhaozhou Feng Shen from Heilongjiang Province in the northeast of the country. After the season Pigram returned initially returned to his homeland, where he was in the fifth round of the draft of the NBA Development League (D - League) selected from the Idaho Stampede. However, for the Stampede, he completed no game, but was obliged by the Maine Red Claws in which he could do before the end of the NBA " lockout " as a dynamic scorer attention.

After the season in the D -League is Pigram tried again as a professional in Europe, where he received this time in December 2012 in the German top flight basketball league a contract as a replacement for an injured compatriot at the s.Oliver Baskets from Würzburg. After five weeks, the Würzburg However, the end of January changed their minds again and ended the season to end extended contract prematurely. Then Pigram got a contract with the relegation-threatened Premier League rivals New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig from where he should also replace an injured compatriot. After relegation with the team and a coaching change after the season but he got a new contract more and finally signed in early 2014 at the stationary end of the table Greek first division Ilisiakos from Athens a contract.