Jerome James

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Jerome James
Atenienses de Manatí
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points
1,540 (4.3 ppg)
Rebounds1,099 (3.1 rpg)
Blocks384 (1.1 bpg)
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Jerome Keith James (born November 17, 1975) is an American former professional

KK Budućnost Podgorica and the Harlem Globetrotters
.

Early life and college years

James was born and raised in the neighborhood of Northview Hills

feed lot in the Tampa Bay Area and learned the meaning of hard work from his father. A friend of James's mother saw James playing pickup basketball at a community center and called Ron Brown, coach of the Florida A&M University Rattlers basketball team. Brown came and saw James's basketball skills and immediately offered James an athletic scholarship to Florida A&M.[1]

James

redshirted the 1994–95 season and played for Florida A&M from 1995 to 1998. In an interview with The Seattle Times, James said that meeting Shaquille O'Neal at an Orlando Magic practice inspired him to pursue a professional basketball career.[1] With Florida A&M, James played 81 games with career averages of 16.0 points, 9.2 rebounds, and 4.48 blocks, with 49.5% on field goal attempts.[2] In his junior season (1997–98), James led NCAA Division I basketball with 4.63 blocks per game.[2] James was an All-MEAC selection in his sophomore and junior seasons.[2][3] One class short of a pre-law degree, James declared for the 1998 NBA draft after his junior season.[1]

Professional career

Harlem Globetrotters and Sacramento Kings (1998–2000)

The Sacramento Kings selected James in the second round as the 36th overall pick in the 1998 NBA draft. Due to the NBA lockout, James played for the Harlem Globetrotters in the fall of 1998 in a nine-country tour of Europe. James joined the Kings once the NBA lockout ended in 1999. Playing 16 games for the Kings as a reserve, James averaged 1.5 points and 1.1 rebounds. James sat out the entire 1999–2000 season due to a knee injury.[2] The Kings waived James on October 20, 2000.[4]

KK Budućnost and ASVEL Villeurbanne (2000–2001)

For the 2000–01 season, James played 10 games for

LNB Pro A.[2] Competing with ASVEL in the LNB playoffs, James averaged 9.5 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 2 blocks.[5]

Seattle SuperSonics (2001–2005)

On September 5, 2001, James returned to the NBA and signed with the Seattle SuperSonics. In the 2001–02 season, James played 56 games with 40 starts and averaged 5.3 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 0.4 steals and scored on 49.1% of field goal attempts.[4] James also led the team in blocks with 86.[2]

James has averaged 4.3 points and 3.1 rebounds per game in 358 career games (180 games started). James played well for the Seattle SuperSonics during the 2005 NBA playoffs, averaging 12.5 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.8 blocks in 11 games against the Kings and San Antonio Spurs.

New York Knicks (2005–2009)

After the 2004–05 season, James signed a 5-year, $30 million free-agent contract with the Knicks on the strength of an outstanding performance in the 2005 playoffs in which he greatly exceeded his regular-season statistics.[6] He arrived at his first training camp out of shape and in his first season he only averaged 3.1 points and 2.1 rebounds in 9 minutes per game. James missed much of the season due to injury and when he was not injured, he frequently played insignificant minutes. James was suspended on January 2, 2006 for not being prepared to practice.[7]

James is often cited as one of many questionable signings by Knicks general manager Isiah Thomas.[8] He is also sometimes cited as an example of the "contract year phenomenon", where an athlete with impending free agency plays at a higher level than he ever has before, only to return to his normal level of play once he signs a new long-term contract.[9] Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated wrote "James was a chronic underachiever who cashed in on a brief moment of excellence".[10]

In the 2007–08 NBA season he played in only two games (January 18 and 21) for a total of five minutes, while earning a salary of $5.8 million.[11] James made his only field goal shot and two free throws of the season at Washington. He played another 2 games the following season, scoring 6 points, but suffered a season-ending torn Achilles tendon injury.

On February 19, 2009, James was traded by the Knicks along with

2010 playoffs
.

Puerto Rico

James returned to professional basketball in 2012, signing with the Caciques de Humacao of the Puerto Rican BSN league on February 28.[12] In 7 games, James made 43% of field goal attempts and averaged 9.1 points and 7.4 rebounds.[13]

James returned to Puerto Rico in 2015, signing with

Atenienses de Manatí. He was released by Atenienses on March 18[14] but stuck around with the club for a further three games pending the arrival of Ekene Ibekwe
.

NBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1998–99 Sacramento 16 0 2.6 .375 .000 .500 1.1 .1 .1 .4 1.5
2001–02 Seattle 56 40 16.9 .491 .000 .500 4.1 .4 .4 1.5 5.3
2002–03 Seattle 51 16 15.0 .478 .000 .587 4.2 .5 .2 1.6 5.4
2003–04 Seattle 65 24 15.2 .498 .000 .660 3.5 .5 .3 .9 5.0
2004–05 Seattle 80 80 16.6 .509 .000 .723 3.0 .2 .3 1.4 4.9
2005–06 New York 45 9 9.0 .463 .000 .625 2.0 .3 .1 .5 3.0
2006–07 New York 41 11 6.7 .418 .000 .556 1.6 .1 .1 .4 1.9
2007–08 New York 2 0 2.5 1.000 .000 1.000 1.5 .0 .0 .0 2.0
2008–09 New York 2 0 5.0 .375 .000 .000 1.5 .0 .5 .5 3.0
Career 358 180 13.3 .485 .000 .617 3.1 .3 .3 1.1 4.3

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1999
 Sacramento 1 0 4.0 .500 .000 .750 2.0 .0 .0 .0 5.0
2002
 Seattle 5 1 14.0 .391 .000 .000 2.4 .8 .0 1.0 3.6
2005
 Seattle 11 11 26.8 .514 .000 .767 6.8 .5 .5 1.8 12.5
Career 17 12 21.7 .493 .000 .722 5.2 .5 .4 1.5 9.4

References

  1. ^ a b c Carpenter, Les (April 26, 2002). "A player's tale: the strange path of Jerome James". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on June 13, 2002. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Jerome Jame biography". NBA. Archived from the original on May 16, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  3. ^ "FAMU Puts 2 On All-MEAC Teams". Orlando Sentinel. February 28, 1997. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Jerome James". basketball-reference.com. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  5. ^ "Jerome James s'affirme". L'equipe (in French). May 2, 2005. Archived from the original on July 8, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  6. ^ "Isiah's final stats: $120M + 7 guys = 82 games". ESPN.com. June 7, 2010.
  7. ^ "Knicks' James suspended indefinitely for conduct". ESPN.com. Associated Press. January 2, 2006. Retrieved July 30, 2009.
  8. ^ "Page 2: Who is the NBA's LVP? - ESPN Page 2". www.espn.com.
  9. ^ "NJ.com: Weblogs". Retrieved May 30, 2023.
  10. ^ "SI.com - Dubious history - Jan 6, 2006". CNN. January 5, 2006. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
  11. ^ "Jerome James Stats, News, Bio". ESPN. May 30, 2023. Retrieved May 30, 2023.
  12. ^ "Disponible Mike Harris para jugar con los Atléticos de San Germán". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). February 29, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  13. ^ "James, Jerome" (in Spanish). BSN. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  14. ^ "Atenienses de Manati signed Ekene Ibekwe to replace Jerome James". Retrieved May 30, 2023.

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