Carlton Myers
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| Born | 30 March 1971 London, England | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Italian / British | |||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 3.75 in (1.92 m) | |||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) | |||||||||||||
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| NBA draft | 1993 / Undrafted | |||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1988–2012 | |||||||||||||
| Position | Shooting guard | |||||||||||||
| Career history | ||||||||||||||
| 1988–1992 | Basket Rimini | |||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | Victoria Libertas Pesaro | |||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Basket Rimini | |||||||||||||
| 1995–2001 | Fortitudo Bologna | |||||||||||||
| 2001–2004 | Virtus Roma | |||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Montepaschi Siena | |||||||||||||
| 2005 | Valladolid | |||||||||||||
| 2005–2009 | Victoria Libertas Pesaro | |||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Basket Rimini | |||||||||||||
| 2012 | San Patrignano | |||||||||||||
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Carlton Ettore Francesco Myers (born 30 March 1971) is a retired Italian professional basketball player that played in the Italian league and the EuroLeague. Myers was initially raised in the United Kingdom. One of the best European shooting guards of his generation, he won a EuroBasket title with the senior Italian National Team in 1999.
Early life[]
Myers was born in London, England to a Caribbean father from Saint Vincent and an Italian mother from Pesaro. He was raised in London until the age of 9, when he moved with his mother in Rimini, Italy.
Professional career[]
During his years in Fortitudo Bologna, Myers became the great rival of another European superstar, Saša Danilović, the leader of Virtus Bologna, the other basketball team in the city. The duels and the rivalry between Myers and Danilović, are a legendary part of Italian basketball history.
National team career[]
With the senior men's Italian National Team, Myers played in the 1997 and 1999 EuroBaskets, the 1998 FIBA World Championship, and in the 2000 Sydney Olympics,[1] where he also had the honour of being his country's flag-bearer, at the opening ceremony.
Awards and accomplishments[]
Club[]
- 2× Italian League MVP: 1994, 1997
- 3× FIBA EuroStar: 1996, 1998, 1999
- FIBA EuroLeague Top Scorer: 1997
- Italian Cup winner: 1998
- Italian Cup MVP: 1998
- 2× Italian Supercup winner: 1998, 2004
- FIBA EuroStars MVP: 1998
- FIBA EuroStars Top Scorer: 1998
- FIBA EuroStars 3-point Contest winner: 1998
- Italian League champion: 2000
National team[]
Silver: EuroBasket 1997
Gold: EuroBasket 1999- EuroBasket 1999: All-Tournament Team
Silver
GoldReferences[]
External links[]
Media related to Carlton Myers at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in Italian)
- FIBA Profile
- FIBA Europe Profile
- Euroleague.net Profile
- Italian League Profile (in Italian)
- Spanish League Profile (in Spanish)
- Eurobasket.com Profile
- Carlton Myers, the 87-point man
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players from Greater London
- Basket Rimini Crabs players
- British expatriate basketball people in Spain
- CB Valladolid players
- English men's basketball players
- English people of Italian descent
- English people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines descent
- FIBA EuroBasket-winning players
- Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna players
- Italian expatriate basketball people in Spain
- Italian men's basketball players
- Italian people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines descent
- Lega Basket Serie A players
- Liga ACB players
- Mens Sana Basket players
- Olympic basketball players of Italy
- Pallacanestro Virtus Roma players
- Shooting guards
- Sportspeople from London
- Victoria Libertas Pesaro players
- 1998 FIBA World Championship players