Brett Eppehimer

Brett Roger Eppehimer ( born May 26, 1976 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania ) is a former American professional basketball player. After studying in his native country was Eppehimer professional in Europe and participated in the Italian citizenship, with whom he fell in European leagues because of the Bosman ruling under less restrictive foreigner restrictions. After his debut season as a professional in the German Basketball League 1999/2000 of the SG Braunschweig played Eppehimer still in Spain, the United Kingdom, Greece and Italy, before he ended his active career in the Netherlands in 2006. Brett Eppehimer has a three- years-younger brother Nick, who was also a professional basketball player in Europe.

Career

After school Eppehimer went to study at the Lehigh University in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania), where he played from 1995 four years for the Mountain Hawks in the Patriot League of NCAA basketball. The Mountain Hawks had a very physically weak phase in the second half of the 1990s and won the 1996/97 only one game out of 27 games this season. Two years later, in 1999, the end of the college career of Eppehimer, although they won six season games, but lost all twelve games against competitors from the Patriot League. However Eppehimer was one of the mainstays in the athletic unsuccessful team and ranks with 1,742 career points and 226 successful distance throws from behind the three- point line to the best players in these categories in the history of the Mountain Hawks. Despite the lack of success the Hawks to Eppehimer 1997/98 could earn a place in the selection of the five best players in the conference in the "All - Patriot League First Team ". After finishing his studies in 1999, Eppehimer tried the regional club of the "Summer League " United States Basketball League, to recommend the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs for a professional contract for a regular Time.

For the season 1999/2000 Eppehimer then got a chance at the German first division of Brunswick as a professional rookie. Although they won ten games of 26, the team was able to improve for a place to eighth place in the final table of the National Basketball League 1999/2000. Eppehimer was an average of five assists best assist provider of the team, but in the first round of the play-offs to retire for the championship against the Ninth Brandt Hagen. Then Eppehimer played in the Spanish second division LEB for the club from San Cristóbal de La Laguna in Tenerife. However, this only took an eleventh place among 16 teams. For the season 2001 /02 Eppehimer then signed a contract in the British Basketball League at the children Towers of London. The team was also a participant in the year before introduced ULEB Euro League, which had now finally replaced the previous European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe. In the highest European club competition, however, the British team had no chance and lost all fourteen round games of the ULEB Euro League 2001 /02 mostly clear. In the British championship they won the Southern Conference with the second- best record of all teams in the BBL, but lost in the play-off semi-final against Sheffield Sharks.

For the season 2002 /03 hired Eppehimer in Greek A2 Ethniki in to Ilisiakos from Athens. The team took third place in the table at the end of the season, but still was able to rise in the top flight since the Second- retired for economic reasons. Eppehimer played at the end of the season for the Spanish second division from Los Barrios, who, however, missed the play-offs in tenth place in the table to move up, where his former club from Tenerife achieved promotion to the top flight. In the following season 2003/ 04 played Eppehimer then for the first time in his adopted home of Italy, with whose citizenship he had previously. Already in other European leagues In the 2003 /04 season he played for the team from Sicily Messina in the Lega Basket Serie A. The promoted but was sporting largely overwhelmed and won only eight of 34 games this season. As Table then you had to stop even after the end of the season his professional game operation. In the season 2004/ 05 Eppehimer had then from January 2005 commitment in the second division Legadue for the team from Scafati, but was eliminated in the ascension play-offs semi-final against Virtus Bologna. Last played Eppehimer still in season 2005/ 06 in the first Dutch league in February for the Polynorm Giants from Bergen op Zoom, who finished the season as the table next to last.