Arvid Kramer

Arvid Kramer ( born October 2, 1956 in Fulda, Minnesota ) is a retired American professional basketball player and sports manager, who also has German citizenship since 1993.

NBA Draft

Kramer is in the annals of the NBA a certain curiosity, since he was selected twice in an expansion draft of a new franchise team, but never played for these teams. In 1979 he was selected first in the regular Draft by the Utah Jazz, played in the following season, but only eight games for the Denver Nuggets. In 1980, the Dallas Mavericks expansion draft him chose. But he did not play for the Mavericks, but moved to Europe. The expansion of the league in 1988 voted him the Miami Heat as the Mavericks still the NBA rights to Kramer possessed, although he did not play for the Mavericks. The Heat were apparently more interested in the offer from the Mavericks pick for the regular draft.

Careers in Europe

1980 Kramer played in Italy for Siena, who descended into this season but from the Lega Basket Serie A. About a station in France, he came to Germany for multiple German champion TuS Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the season 1982 /83. Then he returned to the United States, but after two years went Kramer, who was married to a German, the Rhineland back and played for TuS 1882 in Leverkusen Opladen district in the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga. Two years later, again he went in 1987 he went again a class lower for regional league Godesberger TV, with which he ascended directly to the second division, and two years later in the season 1989/90 even in the first basketball league, by then a occupied space vacated in the BBL. But in the 1990/91 season, you immediately rose again. Kramer was then mitbeteiligt on the part of the Godesberg TV in mind that with Fortuna Bonn Bonn BG 92 merged, which was later renamed after entry of Deutsche Telekom as a sponsor in Telekom Baskets Bonn. With the new club succeeded unbeaten in the 1995/96 season, the renewed rise in the BBL. In his last season as an active player with 40 years now the climber then the catchment succeeded to the finals of the German Championship.

Kramer then worked only as a sports manager for the club and could help to establish it in the BBL. In his time succeeded to the 1997/98 season, where you retired as principal second round in the quarter- finals, always at least jump into the play-off semi-final of the four best German basketball teams. 2004 Kramer left the club and returned to the United States.

Family

Kramer runs a basketball school in San Diego, where his children have spent much of their time at school. His son Josh (born 24 November 1984) first studied in Worcester (Massachusetts ) at the NCAA Division I College of the Holy Cross before he graduated from Concordia University in Irvine continued after one year in the vicinity of San Diego, whose basketball high school team in the NAIA plays. Dennis Kramer ( born January 10, 1992, Cologne) has a scholarship from the University of San Diego and plays for the Toreros in the NCAA Division I. For the German youth and junior national teams, he participated in the U18 and U20 European Championships in the 2010 and 2011 in part.