Greg Lee (basketball)
Gregory Scott Lee ( born December 12, 1951 in Los Angeles, California ) is a former American professional basketball and beach volleyball players. After a successful college, where he won three Basketball Championships NCAA with the UCLA Bruins, Lee had a brief career as a basketball player in the American professional leagues ABA and NBA, before he played three years in Germany, where he met the TuS 04 Leverkusen 1979 German champion. Lee was also an excellent beach volleyball player and was in the 1970s with his partner Jim Menges of the best players of their time at all. In 1976 he won with his Olympic debut of the World Championship of Beach Volleyball as the unofficial world championship and in 1997 in the "Hall of Fame " of the California Beach Volleyball Association ( Cbva ) was added. After his athletic career, Lee became a teacher at a high school in his California home.
Career
Growing up in Reseda district in the San Fernando Valley Lee went to study at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he played under legendary coach John Wooden from 1971 to three years in the basketball team Bruins. With his teammates, which included, among others, Bill Walton, Lee was able to continue the winning streak the Bruins in the NCAA national finals first and won their sixth and seventh championship in a row. The crew was extremely dominant in this period and is conducted in different rankings among the top NCAA basketball teams of all time. In the semifinals, the finals in 1974, the 88 games winning streak continued the Bruins ended in a highly dramatic and historic match against the eventual tournament winner Wolfpack of North Carolina State University after two periods of extension. This also Lee's career ended as a basketball player in the NCAA.
After Lee was in 1974 selected in the " Entry Draft " of the two competing U.S. professional leagues ABA as well as the NBA in the back round, he played in the season 1974/75 first five games in the ABA for the Conquistadors of San Diego, but as a franchise were sold at the end of the season. After the Atlanta Hawks, the Lee had in 1974 selected Draft in NBA, their rights had passed to the Portland Trail Blazers, Lee played in the NBA 1975/76 another five games along with his former teammate Bill Walton with the team from Oregon. Already in November 1975, however, he dismissed the Trail Blazers after less than a month back from his contract. 1977 Lee went to Germany, where two other players who had played until 1971 for the UCLA Bruins, were already active with John Ecker and Terence Schofield in the German Basketball Bundesliga. In a team with John Ecker Lee won the 1979 championship with the TuS 04 Leverkusen. After another season Lee left the colors townspeople again.
Although Lee had never become active for the volleyball team the Bruins, he played in the summer months, beach volleyball and took first with his brother Jon Lee also participate in tournaments. One of his first partner was Ron Hagen, who was taken in 1992 as one of the pioneers of beach volleyball in the volleyball hall of fame. His most successful period was Lee, who was active in beach volleyball tournaments from 1971 to 1982, with Jim Menges, with whom he won 27 of his 29 tournament victories. Among other things, the two won the 1976 premiere of the Olympia World Championship of Beach Volleyball, one of the few tournaments with prize money at this time. 1997 Lee was admitted as a beach volleyball players in the "Hall of Fame" ( German Hall of Fame ) of the California Beach Volleyball Association ( Cbva ).
Success as a basketball player
- NCAA Champion: 1972, 1973
- German Masters: 1979