Landry Fields

Landry Fields ( * June 27, 1988 in Long Beach, California) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Toronto Raptors of the NBA.

Career

Fields attended Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California. In his first and last season of high school, he was captain of the basketball team. Although to him was promoted both by the Gonzaga University, as well as by Lute Olson, the famous coach of the University of Arizona, located Fields opted for the Stanford Cardinal, where he together with his brothers Robin and Brook Lopez, now both also in NBA play, was one of the best classes in the nation.

Fields, which is used mainly on the position of the Shooting Guards, came in his first season on 14 minutes operating time per game. Over the years he improved, however, more and more, so he came in his Abschlussaison to 22 points per game and thus the Pacific -10 Conference led both in points and in rebounds.

After his last season in college he enlisted 2010 Draft, where he was selected in the second round to 39th by the New York Knicks. Due to its impressive performance in the NBA Summer League, he was even able to fight for a place in the starting five of the Knicks. In the game against the Denver Nuggets on November 16, 2010, he also arrive at the points ( 21) and rebounds (17 ) Karrierebestwerte.

For these achievements, he was both in November, when awarded in December 2010 with the title of "Rookie of the Month" in the Eastern Conference. At the end of the season 2010/11 Fields All- Rookie First Team was called to the NBA. Since the Knicks early in the season 2011/2012 with Tyson Chandler had strengthened and this continues to accrue wanted the shirt number 6, Fields wears from now on number 2

After his contract expired in the summer of 2012, renounced the New York Knicks on it to give him a new contract and Fields moved to the Toronto Raptors. The Knicks had previously committed the guards Jason Kidd and Raymond Felton and thus the gap of Fields already closed. Fields in Toronto received a contract for 3 years and 20 million dollars.

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