Jermaine Bucknor
Jermaine Bucknor ( born November 1, 1983 in Edmonton, Alberta ) is a Canadian professional basketball player. Former Canadian national team played as a professional in addition to one years in Argentina mainly in France and Germany. With the Canadian national team he reached the fourth place at the Basketball America Championship in 2009 and participated in the Basketball World Championship 2010 in Turkey part. In the National Basketball League 2012/13 Bucknor plays for the German first division TBB Trier.
Career
After graduating from Ross Sheppard High School in his hometown of Bucknor In 2002, the neighboring country United States to study at the University of Richmond in the same city in the state of Virginia. There he was active for the high school team in the Atlantic 10 Conference Spiders NCAA. After a first round defeat at the National Invitation Tournament 2003 to 2004 was qualified for the national finals of the NCAA, in which they lost the higher rated Badgers of the University of Wisconsin in the first round. Subsequently, the Spiders to 2006 "Post Season" competitions could qualify for no more. Bucknor, however, was in the 2005 squad of the Canadian national team in the Basketball World Grand Prix 2005, but in which the Canadians occupied only ninth place and missed qualification for the 2006 World Cup.
After the end of the study in 2006 Bucknor began a career as a professional in the French second division B per the traditional club CSP Limoges Élite, who had been re-established after bankruptcy two years earlier. In December 2006, trente you again and Bucknor signed a contract with the Polish first division Polpak from Świecie in the Polska Liga Koszykowki. At season's end Bucknor returned to France and played for third division ESSM from Le Portel at Boulogne -sur -Mer on the English Channel, with whom he managed to move up to the Pro B and for which he ran aground in the following season 2007/ 08, in the one reached in the league in the French second division. In the European summer break in 2008, he played in his hometown for the newly formed club chill in the International Basketball League. For the season 2008/ 09 he returned again in the French Pro B and played in Clermont- Ferrand for the Premiership relegation Basket Auvergne, which he, however, end of January 2009 left and moved on to league rivals Maurienne Savoie Basket from Aix -les- Bains.
In summer 2009, Bucknor played with the Canadian national team in the Basketball World Grand Prix 2009 in Puerto Rico, where you can almost reached the catchment in the quarterfinal round of the semi-finals, thus qualifying for the next World Championships. In the final round they finished in fourth place after a semi-final defeat against eventual winners Brazil and a defeat against Argentina in the bronze medal match. In the season 2009/10 Bucknor played again for Basket Auvergne, but missed the play-offs for promotion to the top flight Pro A at the end of the season. In the Basketball World Championship 2010 in Turkey Bucknor cashed with the national team after a defeat against underdogs Lebanon but only defeats in five games and was eliminated in the first round of.
At the start of the National Basketball League 2010/11 Bucknor from the German vice-champion German Bank Skyliners Frankfurt am Main obligated on a temporary basis. After a Knieblessur the Treaty of Bucknor ran out before he got another temporary contract after injuries of other colleagues in late November. This then ended in mid- January 2011, and was again extended, so that Bucknor is looking for a new club in Argentina. For Club Sportivo 9 de Julio de Río Tercero in the province of Córdoba Bucknor played the season to end before moving to the new season 2011/ 12 for league rivals Club Deportivo Libertad Sunchales in the neighboring province of Santa Fe. However, at the end of 2011 he left the club and joined the German first division Movers s.Oliver Baskets Würzburg from that reached a place in the play-offs for the championship. Here you resigned to eventual runner- ratiopharm ulm in the semifinals.
In the season 2012/13 Bucknor from Würzburg league rivals TBB Trier was signed, which extended his contract sample start of the season after four weeks until the end of the following season.