Arizona Reid

Arizona Reid (born 11 March 1986) is an American professional basketball player. After studying in his native country was Reid professional in Europe, where he played mainly in the Swiss national basketball league. In the ProA 2011/12 he played for the German second division means German BC from White Rock, which won him the championship in this league and rose to the highest German league basketball league. Reid was named player of the year in the ProA. In the season 2012/13 Reid returned to Switzerland and plays for the Fribourg Olympic.

Career

Reid grew up in Gaffney (South Carolina) on the border of North Carolina and in 2004 moved to study at the University in High Point. There he played for the high school team Panthers in the Big South Conference of NCAA Division I. The Panthers were able to win a championship this never Conference and were consequently during Reid's time not represented in this team in the national finals of the NCAA. Reid is the only player the Panthers, who scored more than 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in his four-year collegiate career. 2007 and 2008, Reid was named Basketball Player of the Year of the Big South Conference.

After finishing his studies, Reid signed in 2008 a contract as a professional at the traditional Italian second division Pallacanestro Varese. However, after a foot injury in the preseason, the contract was finally dissolved and Reid graduated at the end of the season even more games for the Devils from Geneva in the Swiss national basketball league. In the following season 2009/10 Reid played in the Finnish Korisliiga for Uudenkaupungin Urheilijat Korihait from Uusikaupunki. He then wrote on the " fifth continent " a contract with the Cairns Taipans in the National Basketball League, but was released before the season starts again. Then Reid was briefly active in Lebanon, before he returned to the Swiss National League and was active for the BBC Monthey. Monthey lost the cup final only just a point against double winners Lugano Tigers, against which it was inferior in the play-off semi-final of the championship series in three games.

In the European summer break in 2011 Reid was then in the Philippines in the Governor's Cup of the Philippine Basketball Association active before he graduated from the pre-season preparations for the 2011/12 season in the German top-flight relegation means German BC Weissenfels. MBC decided to commitment of Reid and won with this at the end of the season the championship of the ProA 2011/12 and its chances of promotion. Ried itself was named player of the year the ProA. An obligation for the subsequent top-flight season failed, according to the association. In the season 2012/13, Reid was again active in the Swiss National League and plays in Fribourg for Olympic.