Walter Palmer (basketball)

Walter Scott Palmer ( born October 23, 1968 in Ithaca, New York U.S. state ) is a retired American professional basketball player who played 48 games in addition to the U.S. professional league NBA for several teams in the German Basketball Bundesliga. After end of his career Palmer engaged in advocacy for professional basketball players in German and European level. The father of three, who organized the work as lobbyists from Heidelberg, has a residence in Rockport, Massachusetts.

Palmer is a graduate of Dartmouth College, for its basketball team Big Green, he was active in the Ivy League NCAA until 1990. He is one of the best shot blockers in the history of college teams. After graduating, he was hired by the professional team of the Utah Jazz. Palmer was active for the Jazz from Salt Lake City, where he was not more than three minutes operating time on average in the 1990/91 season in only 28 games. The following season he therefore played in the German BBL in Ludwigsburg. In the following season, the Dallas Mavericks took him under contract, for which he made ​​only 20 games, although his use of time doubled to just over six minutes per game. Palmer left the NBA back to Europe and first played in the Spanish ACB league in Huesca. For the 1993/94 season he returned to Ludwigsburg back in the BBL. Had Ludwigsburg two years earlier still can reach as Südgruppenerster Palmer with the play-off semi-final at the German basketball championship and the cup final, Palmer missed with the team that season the play-offs. Palmer moved in January 1995 to the Italian Milan to the local giants Olimpia, who competed in that season under the name sponsors Stefanel. While Stefanel that season the finals in the European Korac Cup lost against the German representatives Alba Berlin, you also missed the players eligible in the championship Palmer 25 Italian league titles. The following season, Palmer played in Argentina, before he was in the 1996/97 season again in the German BBL in casting under contract. As he reached the cup final with MTV, he missed with the team again the play-offs for the German championship, but what it should be possible in the following two seasons with his new team in Bamberg. In the 1997/98 season he managed after a good third place in the main round of the now single track BBL with the TTL jump into the play-off semi-final, which was lost against the surprise team of that season ratiopharm Ulm. In the following season they failed after an eighth round main place in the quarter -finals at the former series champion Alba Berlin. After a year in Le Mans in LNB Pro A Palmer played in the season 2000/ 01 for the Opel Skyliners Frankfurt back in the BBL. The Skyliners reached the eighth round main square just under the play-offs and Palmer resigned with his team again in the quarterfinals against Alba Berlin. After a back surgery put Palmer out in the 2001/ 02 season before he first returned in the season 2002/ 03 for two games to its German parent club to Ludwigsburg and continued the season in Braunschweig. The Brunswick team lost to a good third place in the main round play-off semi-final against Alba, of Palmers vision for the umpteenth time. After the season, Palmer ended his active career, in part because he did not want to give up his U.S. citizenship.

After his playing career, Palmer hired as chairman of the grouping SP.IN (player initiative basketball), which was founded in 2005. After a time it was still as player and coach in Bamberg unterklassig active, Palmer now operates as General Secretary of SP.IN and European umbrella organizations UBE ( Union Basketteurs d'Europe ) for basketball and European Elite Athletes Association for sport cross- athlete advocacy.