Nathan Jawai
Nathan " Nate " Jawai ( born October 10, 1986 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian basketball player. Jawai was selected in the 2008 Entry Draft of the highest endowed professional league NBA, but could not be here in the next two years to enforce. Since 2010 he plays in Europe and won the 2011 Adriatic League, where he was named " Most Valuable Player " ( MVP ) of the " Final Four " tournament. Since the 2013/14 season he plays for the Turkish champions Galatasaray. Jawai is quintals weight often compared to his height and dark skin, and especially his corpulence of more than 2 ½ with Shaquille O'Neal and referred to as " Aussie Shaq " or similar Sofoklis Schortsanitis as "Baby Shaq ". Jawai does not feel good hit in his playing style with these top names and rejects this from.
Career
Jawai, who comes from a family of Torres Strait Islanders began very late age of 16 with the basketball game at the suggestion of Danny Morseu, who was a member of this ethnic group dual Australian Olympian in basketball. Jawai, who had previously practiced other sports quickly made progress and played two years already with the Cairns Marlins in the Australian Basketball Association ( ABA). In the following three years, he had a grant from the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS ) and also tried a " community college " in the United States. The studies at Midland College in Midland ( Texas), whose high school team had won Chaparral's 2007 championship in the " National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association " ( NJCAA ), but it broke after a short time and became a professional at the Taipans in Cairns in NBL Australasia. Here he was awarded " Rookie of the Year " in 2008 as the successor to Joe Ingles.
In the NBA Draft of 2008, he was selected 41st position of the Indiana Pacers, but passed on him in a player exchange to the Toronto Raptors. After unusual heart activity were observed in medical tests, he was admitted by the Raptors until mid-December 2008 back to competitive sports. His debut in the most highly endowed professional league he had in January 2009 with the defeat of the Detroit Pistons. It is considered therefore as the first indigenous player from the fifth continent in the NBA. (D - League) A month later, he was discharged, there to gather more match practice after six missions to the Idaho Stampede in the NBA Development League. In the summer of 2009, he lost with the Australian national team, " Boomers " the finals at the basketball Ozeanienmeisterschaft 2009 against the neighbor New Zealand to return game in direct comparison. Previously, he was in a complicated player exchange that included four teams in the NBA, first to the Dallas Mavericks, who later passed on him to the Minnesota Timberwolves. For the Timberwolves, he came into the NBA in 2009/10 to 39 inserts with average ten minutes operating time before even this also charges him in March 2010 in the D -League to the Sioux Falls Skyforce. After the season Jawai 's NBA career was over.
In the 2010/11 season he played for KK Partizan in the Serbian capital Belgrade and won with the Serbian series champion, the national league and cup double in 2011. In the Adriatic League could defend his title in 2011 also, which Jawai was named " Most Valuable Player " ( MVP ) of the " Final Four " tournament. In the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2010/11 they reached the second round of the 16 best teams, but where you only scored a win in six games and was eliminated. For the following season, 2011/12 Jawai moved to Russia for the ULEB Eurocup winner and Euro League rookie UNICS from Kazan. UNICS reached at its premiere in the ULEB Euro Cup 2011 /12 quarter-final play-offs, where you smooth in three games lost against the Spanish champions FC Barcelona Regal. While 2011/12 failed in the Russian PBL, was reached in the VTB United League 2011/ 12, the eastern counterpart to the Adriatic League, the final game that went against PBK CSKA Moscow lost.
Jawai, who still belonged to the extended squad of the Australian national team in May 2012, did not make it despite the injury to Andrew Bogut in the final Olympic squad. He was then obliged by the Spanish champions FC Barcelona Regal, who had his former club UNICS in the Euro League quarter-finals earlier defeated and where he reunites with his team-mate Joe Ingles played together, which he already knew from AIS. With Barcelona he won the cup competition " Copa del Rey ". Despite the injury, he wanted to be in 2012/13 while at the Final Four tournament in the ULEB Euro League, after he had been once each awarded during the regular season and in the quarter-final play-offs for the MVP as a player of the match with the greatest effectiveness. But he played only a minute in the semi-final defeat against the national competitors Real Madrid. Subsequently, the club announced the end of the season Jawais due to injury. The final series of the championship went against the eternal rivals Real lost and Jawai joined for the following season the Turkish champions Galatasaray in Istanbul.