Carlton Myers

Carlton Ettore Francesco Myers ( born March 30, 1971 in London, United Kingdom) is an Italian former basketball player. Myers, whose father is from the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and grew up in the first nine years of his life in London, heard alongside long jumper Fiona May to the Italy's most successful athletes of Afro-Caribbean descent, and is a prominent critic of the under Italian sports followers partly widespread racism '. His election as flag carrier of the Italian team at the 2000 Olympics was generally regarded as a sign against this racism.

  • 2.1 At the club level
  • 2.2 At national level
  • 2.3 Personal highs

Career

Club level

Myers began his professional career in Serie A2 at Marr Rimini, where he played from 1988 to 1992. He then moved to the Serie A1 Scavolini Pesaro to where he was top scorer of the team soon. During the following year in which he completed another season in Serie A2 Rimini, he put 87 points in a game is still a valid record in the Italian professional basketball on. From 1995 to 2001 Myers played for Fortitude Bologna. During this time he won the Italian championship (2000 ), whose final he reached five times with Fortitude, as well as the Italian Cup (1998), he also reached last year's semi-finals of Euro League.

The next three years played Myers in Pallacanestro Virtus Roma. In early 2004 he became only the third player (after Antonello Riva and Oscar Schmidt), who scored more than 10,000 points in Serie A. After Myers played in the 2004/05 season for Montepaschi Siena and short in Spain for Fórum Valladolid, he is since 2005 for Scavolini Pesaro under contract. With this club he joined in 2007 in the series A1. In 2009 he returned to his hometown club of Italian Rimini, where he had begun his professional career, and once again played one season in the second Italian league Legadue.

National

With the Italian national Myers participated in the European Championships in 1993, 1997 and 1999. He was there every time top scorer of the Italians and led the team 1997 silver and 1999 gold medal.

In addition, he also played in the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 Olympics for Italy and reached it the 6th or 5th place. In the Olympic tournament, he was also flag carrier of the Italian team and again the best scorer of their basketball department. In total, Italy Myers for 1,825 points in 131 internationals.

Achievements

At club level

At national level

  • European Champion 1999 European Championship finalist 1997

Personal records

  • A player in a ULEB Euro League match highest score: 41 ( on 7 March 2001 against Real Madrid)
  • Highest in a game of Italian professional basketball from a player scored Score: 87 ( January 26, 1995 compared Libertas Udine)
  • Third-best scorer of the Serie A1: 11,320 points ( the end of the season 2008/ 09)
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