Wally Szczerbiak
Walter Robert " Wally " Szczerbiak ( born March 5, 1977 in Madrid ) is a former American professional basketball player.
- 2.1 High School
- 2.2 College
- 2.3 NBA 2.3.1 Minnesota
- 2.3.2 Boston
- 2.3.3 Seattle
- 2.3.4 Cleveland
Private life
Childhood
Wally Szczerbiak Walter Szczerbiaks father was a professional basketball player for the Pittsburgh Condors, and later for Real Madrid. He is regarded as one of the 50 most influential basketball player in Europe of all time.
Presence
Meanwhile, Wally Szczerbiak is married to his wife Shannon and has three children - Anna Bella, Amberly and Maximus.
Career
High School
After Father Walter had hung up his basketball shoes to the nail, the family Szczerbiak moved to the States, and Wally attended high school in Cold Spring Harbor. In 1997 he participated for same to the Empire State Games.
College
Wally Szczerbiak studied for three years at the Miami University in Oxford ( Ohio). Overall, he reached it for the RedHawks an average of 20.1 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists. He ranked No. 2 in the rankings of the best points scorer of all time behind his university Ron Harper. In his honor, the jersey will not be awarded with the number 32.
NBA
Minnesota
When NBA Draft 1999, he was pulled in 6th place of the Minnesota Timberwolves. In his rookie season he scored 11.6 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. He was All- Rookie First elected to the NBA team, and was allowed to participate in the NBA Rookie Challenge 2000 in Oakland. In this role he was able to contribute 13 points.
A year later, he was a sophomore at the event in Washington, DC there. This time he scored 27 points and 8 rebounds, which earned him the title of MVP.
In the season 2001-2002 Wally Szczerbiak played in all 82 regular season games for the T- Wolves. In addition, he was first appointed in addition to stars like Kobe Bryant in the team in the Western Conference for the NBA All-Star Game in 2002 in Philadelphia, and it reached 10 points.
In 2003, he missed the first 53 games of the season due to a heel injury.
In the 2004-2005 season, Wally Szczerbiak reached two milestones in his career. He scored his 5000th point, and played his 1000th Assist
In total he scored from 1999 to 2006 in six and a half seasons, an average of 14.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists in 467 games for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Boston
January 26, 2006 Wally Szczerbiak was transferred together with his teammates Michael Olowokandi and Dwayne Jones, as well as the rights to the following first-round draft pick to the record champion Boston Celtics. In return, Marcus Banks, Mark Blount, Ricky Davis and Justin Reed changed to Minnesota. In addition, the Timberwolves were two future draft picks.
In one and a half years with the Celtics scored " Wally World" on average 16.7 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists.
Seattle
He slipped only 64 times the jersey of the championship record over before it on 28 June 2007 along with Delonte West and the rights on Jeff Green in exchange for superstar Ray Allen plus the rights to Glen Davis to the Seattle SuperSonics (now Oklahoma City Thunder ) changed.
There he ran just 50 times on, and brought it here to an average of 13.1 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.4 assists.
Cleveland
Again, only eight months later he was part of a swap of three teams, namely the Celtics, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Chicago Bulls, and was transferred to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
From 2007 to 2008, he scored at a rather low by his standards operating time from an average of 25.5 minutes ( 48 ), "only" 9.5 points and 2.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists for the Cavs, but reached first time since 2004 the play-offs.
Also in the season 2008/2009 Wally Szczerbiak has held the role of the sixth 's, or gave the Stars LeBron James and Delonte West important breathers. He could with 7.0 points and 3.1 rebounds for the success of his team, which had the best record in the league after the regular season, contribute (as of 1 April 2009). Then reached Szczerbiak with the Cavaliers the conference finals. His contract was not renewed afterwards.
Due to repetitive injuries in the knee, Szczerbiak announced end of his career in the fall of 2009.