Nick Eppehimer

Nicholas "Nick" Eppehimer ( born November 20, 1979 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania ) is a former American professional basketball player. Immediately after the study was Eppehimer professional in Europe and still won in the 2002/03 season with Benetton Treviso, the Italian Cup and the runner-up of the ULEB Euro League 2002/ 03. Like his brother Nick on board decreed Italian citizenship, the more favorable conditions provided him in consequence of the Bosman ruling, as he so did not fall under tighter restrictions on foreigners. Nevertheless, Nick Eppehimer beat it little capital, because he played in the result only in the second division in Italy and France as well as the economical and sporty weaker Swedish League and did not reach the level of his first professional station. After one season at a French club unterklassigen Nick Eppehimer after 2009 was no longer active as a professional basketball player.

Career

After school Eppehimer went to study at the Marist College in Poughkeepsie, where he played for the college team Red Foxes between 1999 and 2003 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference ( MAAC ) of the NCAA. The basketball team of Red Foxes, who had its most successful period in the 1980s, was able to win the 2002 regular season, the MAAC, but this was not enough to qualify for the national NCAA finals. In his last college year 2002/03 the Eppehimer 17 points per game, but the Marist Red Foxes could not re- qualify for a tournament in the "Post Season".

After the Red Foxes were again not represented in the post-season NCAA, Eppehimer was directly pro and even went to the end of the European season 2002 /03 to Italy, where he was taken with the Master Pallacanestro Benetton Treviso in April 2003 under contract. In the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League, he completed a deployment in their final group game in the second round at 98:76 victory over national competitors Virtus Bologna, but that was meaningless as Benetton was qualified as group winners already for the Final Four tournament. At the final tournament a month later, where Benetton lost the final against FC Barcelona, ​​Eppehimer was no longer employed by coach Ettore Messina. In the national championship, he completed six missions in 16 games for the defending champions, but with only good four minutes average operating time in the Legabasket series A. In the play-offs Treviso defended his title against Skipper Bologna. However, his European experience helped Eppehimer then not to be selected in the Entry Draft of the highest endowed professional league NBA or otherwise to get a contract in this league. So Nick Eppehimer returned for season 2003/ 04 back to Italy, in which he wrote his three years older brother Brett played for the first time after stints in Germany, Spain, England and Greece in the Italian first division for the Sicilian climbers from Messina. However, Nick just got a contract in the second Italian league at Banco di Sardegna Sassari in Sardinia. Mid-February 2004 was dissolved his contract in Sardinia and Nick moved on to league rivals Banca Popolare Ragusa also to Sicily. Here he completed only one more game. At the end of the season both Sicilian clubs occupied the last place in their respective division.

For the season 2004 /05 Nick Eppehimer moved to the Swedish Norrkoping to the local first division club Dolphins in the Basketligan where Bill Magarity sr. the younger brother of his former college coach Dave Magarity had become home and had worked as a player and coach. Although Eppehimer received an invitation to the All -Star game of the Swedish league, but resigned with his team in the play-off semi-finals of the title assignment option. For the following season moved Eppehimer in the second French LNB Pro B League to ALM Evreux Basket from, for he could attend but only early in the season two games. After an injury, his contract early January 2006 was finally resolved. Then Eppehimer played another season with the Dolphins in Norrköping in the 2006/07 season, before he exposed in the following season. In the 2008 /09 season he was again active in France for the third-tier club BC Longwy Longwy - Rehon in the NM1 before his brother Brett with almost 30 years ended as his professional career.