Charles Lee (basketball)

Charles Lee ( born November 11, 1984 in Washington, DC ) is a retired American professional basketball player. His last two seasons as a professional he played until 2010 in the German Basketball Bundesliga. After he as a professional athlete already ended with 26 years of his career, he was for two years an employee of a bank, before he returned as an assistant coach of the basketball team at Bucknell University, for which he was already active as a player during his studies.

Career

Lee began his career in higher education team Bisons Bucknell University in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, where he ( German Player of the Year ) has been named to the Patriot League of NCAA in 2006, also for "Player of the Year" and the later German national team Christopher McNaughton played together. Unusually, the economics student Lee was one of the few " Starting Five " players a NCAA Division I team not a full time athletic scholarship, so that counted him commentators even at the best basketball -playing non- scholarship holders in the entire NCAA. After he was not selected in the NBA Draft, he was allowed to present themselves in the NBA Summer League with the San Antonio Spurs, which it eventually but not committed for the season's squad continued.

Therefore, Lee moved across the Atlantic in 2006 and played in Israel for Hapoel Gilboa and play community of Afula. After one season, he moved to Belgium for Royal Basket Club from Pepinster before he was 74 in 2008 committed by BG Göttingen of the German BBL. Before even his former teammates from his studies Chris McNaughton also moved to Göttingen, Lee signed a contract with LigakonkurrentenArtland Dragons. After the end of this one-year contract Lee ended his career as a professional athlete and was employed by Merrill Lynch as a trainee before he worked as a trader for the bank. After two years he finished this commitment and has been at his former college assistant coach of the men's basketball team.