Chris Kramer
Christopher Scott " Chris " Kramer ( born April 4, 1988 in Huntington, Indiana ) is an American professional basketball player who currently for the German first division EWE Baskets Oldenburg plays in the National Basketball League.
Life
Kramer visited the Huntington North High School, where he played alongside basketball and football and baseball. In his last season he led the " Vikings " to a total of 18 wins with only 3 losses and in 2006 was in addition to current NBA players like Greg Oden and Michael Conley Jr. in the Indiana All Star Team appointed.
He then decided to Purdue University, which he led in the category Ball profits already in ertsten year and was then rewarded with a nomination in the " Big Ten All-Defensive Team". With the " Boilermakers " he reached at the same time the NCAA tournament, where, after a first round victory over the Arizona State University, until the second round failed to defending champion Florida.
In his second year he was up to his reputation as a defensive specialist, led the team to win at the ball and basket templates and even received the award this time as " Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year."
In the following season, in the Kramer for the first time held the role of the captain, for nine years he reached with the team for the first time the round of "Sweet Sixteen" in the NCAA Tournament and was again elected defensive team in the Big Ten All.
Again, going as captain in the season, managed to Purdue in the following season for the second consecutive year in the "Sweet Sixteen", had to be there but the prestigious Duke University admit defeat. Kramer received a second award for Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year.
After his time at the College Kramer played for the NBA Indiana Pacers Club in the Summer League and participated in the training camp of the Milwaukee Bucks. After he was, however, no mention in their final squad for the 2010/11 season, he completed a season for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants in the NBA D- League.
He spent the following summer at the Puerto Rican first division Mets de Guaynabo, before he was signed by the German first division Movers s.Oliver Baskets shortly before the start of the season 2011/12. There, too, he made himself as a defensive specialist a name, was at 11.2 points per game, but at the same time also the best basketball player of the team.
After a successful first season in Würzburg, which pushed forward as newly promoted to the semifinals of the German Cup, he signed for season 2012/13, a one-year contract with the Premier League rivals EWE Baskets Oldenburg.