Justin Gray (basketball)
Justin Eugene Gray ( born March 31, 1984 in Raleigh, North Carolina ) is an American professional basketball player. After studying in his native Gray did not make the leap to the highest prize U.S. professional league NBA, but played in several European leagues, including the National Basketball League 2011/12 for the Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt am Main.
Career
Before the study was Gray, who had previously visited the West Charlotte High School in Charlotte (North Carolina), a preparatory year at Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia on the border with North Carolina, where he along with the future NBA All star and Olympic gold medalist Carmelo Anthony played in a team. In 2002 he moved back to study at the Wake Forest University in his native U.S. state of North Carolina. Here he was, though even top scorer of the high school team Deamon Deacons and appointed to the First Team of the five best players in the Atlantic Coast Conference, now in the shadow of a year later -added Chris Paul, which should be 2008 and 2012 later with Carmelo Anthony Olympic champion. While the U.S. Championships won with Chris Paul in the U21 Junior National Team in 2004, Paul filed a year later already for the NBA Draft 2005, while Gray finished only fifth in the Under-21 national team at the World Cup in 2005 after one in the quarterfinals suffered their only tournament loss to Canada. A year later, Gray also reported to the Entry Draft, but was not selected in contrast to many of his teammates from the youth team as Rajon Rondo, who was also to Gray at the Oak Hill Academy, Marcus Williams and Rudy Gay. While another choice players like Allan Ray, who was to play in the German Basketball Bundesliga later, about the training camps and the NBA Summer League made the jump to the NBA, Gray also remained blocked this way.
His professional career began therefore Gray in Europe in 2006 at the Royal Basket Club in the Belgian Pepinster. After one season, he moved to league rivals within Belgium Dexia Mons. This also participated in the FIBA EuroCup 2007/ 08, where they narrowly lost the final with a point. In international matches, but there is no detectable inserts of Gray, while it is reported consistently from its operations for Dexia in national championship games. For the season 2008/ 09 Gray joined the Czech champions CEZ Basketball Nymburk from, with whom he played in the Eurocup 2008/ 09, but was eliminated in the first round against the subsequent quarter-finalists Bilbao and KK Hemofarm Vrsac Iurbentia. But under coach Muli cat urine you defended a domestic double. In the season 2009/10 Gray joined the Polish Tauron League to PGE Turow Zgorzelec from. However, the former Polish vice-champion retired as a major in the fifth round play-off quarter-final series prematurely. Previously, as Nymburk was eliminated in the first round of the Eurocup 2009/10. The only victory in six group matches here managed to eventual Final Four participant Panellinios Athens.
Greece was also in 2010 the target of Grays next season 2010/ 11, where for the third time in a row in the ULEB he participated Eurocup with PAOK from Thessaloniki and failed for the third time in a row with a team in the first round, as you just direct comparison against CB Estudiantes lost. At season's end Gray left the club and joined in April 2011, the Basketball Association of Donetsk in the Basketball Super League Ukraine, but with the coach Saša Obradovic lost the national championship final against BK Budiwelnik Kiev. In summer 2011, Gray played in the National Basketball League of China, which is located below the Chinese Basketball Association, Guangzhou FM. At the start of the BBL season 2011/12, his former coach cat urine brought him to the Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt, the German sister city of Guangzhou. The six preliminary round defeats in the Eurocup 2011/12 the Frankfurt Gray had no use, otherwise his course of the season was marked by a few uses and abuses. At the end of the season dissolving the contract on mutual agreement and Gray joined the rest of the season the Greek first division Enosi Kalathosfairisis from Kavala in the A1 Ethniki, which succeeded as the major sixth round of qualifying for the championship play-offs.
In the season 2012/13 Gray stood first in the French first division side Union Poitiers Basket 86 in LNB Pro A under contract, but after this Agreement has been terminated prematurely, he moved to the second Turkish league to Pertevniyal to Istanbul. The following season, he went to Lebanon and played for the Erstligarückkehrer Homenetmen from Beirut. After four operations in February 2014 he went to the Bulgarian first division Rilski Sportist from Samokov.