Nik Caner-Medley

Niklas Anthony " Nik " Caner - Medley ( born October 20, 1983 in Beverly, Massachusetts) is an American professional basketball player. After finishing his studies, Caner - Medley began a career as a professional, in which he in Europe and there mainly in the Spanish ACB league was mainly active after he was able to earn a place in a squad of a club in the most highly endowed professional league NBA. In the National Basketball League in 2006/ 07 was Caner - Medley with the Artland Dragons German vice-champion and trophy winner. In Eurocup 2011/12, he reached the final of the Valencia Basket Club and was voted among the top five players in this competition. In the 2012/13 season played Caner - Medley, who also owns the citizenship of Azerbaijan in December 2011 for the Israeli series champion Maccabi Tel Aviv, before he returned to Spain, where he plays since 2007.

Career

Caner - Medley was in high school, a renowned and talented basketball player, who was appointed the U.S. state of Maine during his time at the Deering High School in Portland (Maine) to "High School Player of the Year " in 2002. To study changed Caner - Medley at the University of Maryland, College Park, named their high school team Terrapins, Terps also briefly in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC ) play the NCAA. With the winner of the nationwide NCAA finals of 2002, he again reached in the following two years, the final round, unable to build on the success of 2002. If you had to defend his title can still reach the knockout stages of "Sweet Sixteen" in 2003, it lost in 2004 as winner of the ACC Championship game strong in the second round against the defending NCAA Orangemen of Syracuse University. Over the next two years managed the Terps in which Caner - Medley together played with Ekene Ibekwe, which should be active for the Artland Dragons in Germany later once, no longer qualifying for the finals of the NCAA Championship, but only participation at the National Invitation Tournament ( NIT). In the NIT once you could reach the semi-finals, where they lost to the eventual winners Gamecocks University of South Carolina in 2005.

After Caner - Medley was not selected in the NBA Draft in 2006, he was hired by the Detroit Pistons for the NBA Summer League in which he drew upon but a break in the foot, which forced him to several months of break. In February 2007, he was making a comeback and his debut as a professional in the Dragons from the Samtgemeinde Artland in the National Basketball League 2006/07. End of April 2006, they lost the cup final against the then champion Rhein Energie Cologne with just two points. While Caner - Medley then drew upon a metacarpal fracture, his teammates were in the play- offs for the championship, defeating the main round First ALBA Berlin and the defending champion Rhein Energie Cologne without him and for the first time in the final series move in for the championship. There, they lost but despite the support of the convalescent Caner - Medley against Brose Baskets in Bamberg. In the summer of 2007 he played in the Summer League for the Sacramento Kings, but did not accept him for the season under contract, so he finally for the Skyforce from Sioux Falls in the NBA Development League took the season 2007/ 08 in attack.

End of December 2007 returned Caner - Medley already returned to Europe and signed a contract with the club from Gran Canaria in the Spanish ACB League. Caner - Medley was named " Most Valuable Player " (MVP) of the 20th matchday of the ACB league, but missed with his club in ninth place after the main round just a place in the play-offs at the Spanish Championship. With Cajasol from Seville, he managed in the following season 2008/ 09 only avoid relegation in the Spanish top flight. After playing the Lakers in the NBA Summer League in 2008 for Los Angeles, it is also a contract for a full NBA season was denied by his commitment to the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA Summer League in 2009. In the following two seasons, he played for CB Estudiantes Asefa from the Spanish capital Madrid. In the 2009/10 season he was named Player of the Month May 2010, but lost in the first round of play-offs against the Basque club and eventual champions Caja Laboral. In the following season 2010/11 he was elected even among the five best players in the entire season after player of the match three times and Player of the Month four times, and he was at the end of the season had the best average effectiveness of all players in the league ACB. However, his club Asefa Estudiantes could not reach the play-offs for the championship.

In the season 2011/12 Caner - Medley was committed by the basketball club from Valencia. With this he retired in the semifinal series of the Championship play-offs against holders FC Barcelona, which again won the championship later. After he had retired with Asefa Estudiantes in the Eurocup 2010/11 in the quarterfinals, he reached with Valencia in the Eurocup 2011/12 the final match, which was lost to hosts BK Khimki. Caner - Medley scored in the final with 23 points and eleven rebounds a double -double and a final record - effectiveness of 38, after having been previously selected already one of the five best players of the competition. In December 2011, Caner - Medley was also active in Spain as his compatriot Jaycee Carroll citizenship of Azerbaijan. In contrast to Carroll Caner - Medley in the summer of 2012 but did not take part in the qualifiers for the European Basketball Championship in 2013, in the Azerbaijani national basketball team was eliminated, among others, against Germany. For the following season 2012/13 Caner - Medley was then taken by the Israeli series champion Maccabi Tel Aviv under contract. With Maccabi Caner - Medley took then for the first time at the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2012/13, where, however, already smooth eliminated in the quarter-final play-offs against Real Madrid. In the final, the Israeli championship you had also a rare final defeat against Maccabi Haifa plug it in and could not defend the national championship title.

After just one season returned Caner - Medley in the ACB league returned to Spain and plays in the 2013/14 season for the Euro League team Unicaja Málaga.

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