Jamal Crawford

Aaron Jamal Crawford ( born March 20, 1980 in Seattle, Washington ) is an American professional basketball player. Since 2000 he plays in the U.S. professional league NBA, beginning with the Cleveland Cavaliers, who selected him eighth in the NBA Drafts, then with the Chicago Bulls from 2004 to 2009, the New York Knicks and from June 2009 to 2011 the Atlanta Hawks. In the season 2011/2012 he was with the Portland Trail Blazers under contract. Since 2012 he runs on for the Los Angeles Clippers. Crawford is 1.96 meters tall and plays at the position of shooting guards.

Career

Chicago Bulls (2000-2004)

In his first year in the NBA Crawford was employed in 61 games and had trouble getting to adjust to the new situation. Both his points haul as well as its success rate from the field were worse than expected and the following season he sat out the first two thirds of the season because of an injury to his left knee. It was not until his third season in the NBA he could get his points average over 10 points per game and became stronger in the second half of the season. He was able to achieve over 20 points in two games more than 30 points in 11 games for which he was rewarded with a position on the grid. In the 2003 /04 season he made another increase: 17.3 points, 5.1 assists and 1.4 steals per game. He became the third player in the history of the Chicago Bulls, which in a game reach 50 points. The other two players were Michael Jordan and Chet Walker.

New York Knicks (2004-2008)

Crawford was in the summer of 2004 with Jerome Williams for Dikembe Mutombo, Othella Harrington, Frank Williams and Cezary Trybanski from the Bulls to the New York Knicks traded (player exchange), it being said that Mutombo was issued by the Bulls directly to Houston and Trybanski has never played in the jersey of the Bulls. In New York, it was an up and down for Crawford. After the first season, he had his place in the starting line-up leave, but made ​​it through the four years retry him up. In his third season with the Knicks, he scored his Career High of 52 points in a game against the Miami Heat, where he met 16 consecutive throws. His fourth season with the Knicks, 2007/ 08 was statistically his best 20.6 points and 5 assists per game. Although he stood in all 80 games in which he participated in this season in the starting lineup and Karrierebestleistungen aufstellte, the Knicks decided to trade him to 11 games in the 2008/ 09 season.

Golden State Warriors (2008-2009)

For the Warriors, he started in 54 games and scored 50 points even once. He became the fourth player in NBA history to score at least 50 points for three or more teams. Even with the Warriors was not enough for the playoffs and thus Crawford is one of the least successful players in the NBA history. He had never once reached the playoffs in nine NBA years.

Atlanta Hawks (2009-2011)

Even before the season had begun in 2009/10, Crawford was traded in exchange for Acie Law and Speedy Claxton to the Atlanta Hawks. He signed a two-year contract worth a total of nearly $ 20 million. He should for the Hawks, the role of the Sixth Man taking and did so excellently. His 18 points per game off the bench were not only the most points, which was able to record a bench player this season for himself, but helped his new team in the playoffs and he has also yet to the award as the NBA Sixth Man of the Year. During the season he also scored the 10,000 point and the 2500 Assist his NBA career. In his first playoff managed the Hawks in the first round after seven games to prevail against the Milwaukee Bucks, had, however, already in the second round of the Orlando Magic after four games to admit defeat.

Portland Trail Blazers (2011-2012)

In December 2011, Crawford signed a two-year contract with the Portland Trail Blazers. In Portland, it was designed to replace due to injuries, retired Brandon Roy. However, Crawford was the expectations not just. Despite 13.9 points per game, he scored 30.8 %, the worst rate of three in his career and his field throw percentage of 38.4 % was the lowest since his rookie season. After the Trail Blazers missed the playoffs, Crawford decided to exercise its option contract to make use and to leave Portland for a year already.

Los Angeles Clippers ( Since 2012 )

For the season 2012/ 13, Crawford decided aground for the Los Angeles Clippers and there wrote a three -year contract for $ 15.7 million.