Martin Müürsepp

Müürsepp Martin ( born September 26, 1974 in Tallinn, Estonian SSR ) is a retired Estonian professional basketball player and current basketball coach. He played two years in the NBA for the Miami Heat and the Dallas Mavericks. With AEK Athens he won the Saporta Cup with UNICS Kazan and the FIBA Europe League.

Career

In his youth Müürsepp first played football before he started with the basketball at the age of nine years. In 1989 he was appointed for the first time in a youth selection of the national basketball team of the Soviet Union and undertakes the following year of BC Kalev. In young age, he was playing in Sweden and Israel, before he returned to Estonia in 1995. There he was obliged by JK Tallinna Kalev.

NBA

In Tallinn to Müürsepp played so much in the spotlight, that he stood for selection in the 1996 NBA Draft. There he was finally drafted at # 25 out of Utah Jazz, the transferred him immediately to the Miami Heat. There he played for then-coach Pat Riley not matter only came to a total of 27 minutes and use has been transferred in the same season to the Dallas Mavericks, where he had a little more periods of use. In the 1997/98 season, he continued to play for the Mavs and came on 14 minutes use / game, scoring 5.7 points / game.

Europe

After Müürsepp no longer was used in Dallas, he moved to Greece in 1999. He first played there at Aris Thessaloniki and between 1999 and 2001 at AEK Athens. With AEK he won the 2000 Saporta Cup and two times the Greek Cup.

Between 2001/ 02 and 2005/ 06 season played Martin Müürsepp at various Russian top clubs. With UNICS Kazan he won the 2004 FIBA Europe League, where he was also awarded the MVP of the Final Four. During this time he also played with CSKA Moscow in the ULEB Euro League and also won the Greek Cup.

In 2006 he went back to Estonia, where he ran aground Tartu rock and won the Estonian Championship. In 2007 he played for one year at the Melbourne Tigers in Australia, before returning to BC Kalev moved because of a serious injury in 2008, where his professional career began. With the BC he won the 2009 Estonian Basketball Cup, his last title. His last year as a player he spent at BC Rakvere Tarvas. After he finished his playing career.

A trainer

Martin Müürsepp began immediately after the end of his career as a player to work as a coach. His first stop is his " home club " BC Kalev, where he is an assistant coach.

Achievements

• Saporta Cup winner with AEK Athens ( 2000)
• Europe League winner with UNICS Kazan ( 2004)
• Greek Cup winners AEK Athens with (2000)
• Russian Cup winner CSKA Moscow (2005)
• Estonian champion with Tartu Skirt ( 2007)
• Estonian Cup Winners' Cup with BC Kalev (2008)

Awards

• Finals MVP of the Europe League (2004)