Oliver Lafayette

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Oliver Lafayette
Capitol
(Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
College
Virtus Bologna
2018–2019Igokea
Career highlights and awards
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Oliver Lafayette (born May 6, 1984) is an American-born Croatian former professional

Lithuania
.

High school and college career

Lafayette attended Capitol High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and led the basketball team to a 29–3 record his senior year. Lafayette attended first Blinn College and Brown Mackie College before transferring to the University of Houston.[1] At Houston during his junior year, Lafayette started 30 of 31 games and earned 2nd team all Conference USA while finishing third in scoring in C-USA with a 15.7 points per game average. During his senior year in 2006–07, Lafayette averaged 14.3 points, 5.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game. He also majored in sociology.[2]

Professional career

Lafayette talks to Press in his presentation as a
Valencia BC
player.

Lafayette played with the

NBA Development League. With the Mad Ants, the guard started 42 of 48 games and averaged 17.1 points, 6.5 assists and 1.8 steals in 35.3 minutes per game.[3] On April 14, 2010, Lafayette signed with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association[4][5] and appeared in one game with the team in which he scored 7 points. Upon playing with the Celtics, Lafayette became the 23rd former Houston Cougar to play in the NBA.[6]

On October 13, 2010, Lafayette signed with Partizan Belgrade in Serbia,[7] but the contract was terminated in November.[8]

In December 2010, Lafayette practiced with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, his former team. He was going to sign with the Mad Ants once he was officially released from Partizan Belgrade.

Beşiktaş.[10] But due to health problems, his contract was dropped.[11]

In February 2011, Lafayette signed with

Asseco Prokom Gdynia in Poland.[13]

In January 2012, Lafayette signed with

Valencia Basket in the offseason in 2013.[16]

On June 22, 2014, he signed a two-year deal with Olympiacos Piraeus.[17] On June 29, 2015, he parted ways with Olympiacos.[18]

On July 9, 2015, he signed with the Italian club

Emporio Armani Milano.[19]

On July 18, 2016, Lafayette signed with Spanish team

Valencia BC in the Finals.[22]

On July 31, 2017, Lafayette signed with Italian club

Virtus Bologna.[23]

On November 13, 2018, Lafayette signed with Bosnian club Igokea.[24]

International career

The

Croatia at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.[25]

Overseas Elite

In the summer of 2017, Lafayette joined two-time The Basketball Tournament defending champion Overseas Elite. On August 3, 2017, Blair's team, Overseas Elite won its third straight The Basketball Tournament championship with an 86–83 victory over Team Challenge ALS on ESPN.[26]

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  PIR  Performance Index Rating
 Bold  Career high

NBA

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2009–10 Boston 1 0 22.0 .500 .500 .000 4.0 2.0 .0 .0 7.0
Career 1 0 22.0 .500 .500 .000 4.0 2.0 .0 .0 7.0

Euroleague

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2010–11 Partizan Belgrade 6 3 25.8 .221 .154 .654 3.7 3.3 1.3 .0 8.5 6.3
2011–12
Asseco Prokom
 10 0 24.5 .411 .381 .708 2.5 3.3 1.4 .0 10.7 11.0
2011–12 Anadolu Efes 6 2 23.0 .419 .313 .917 3.2 2.8 1.5 .0 8.7 11.7
2012–13 Zalgiris 23 11 21.2 .361 .323 .900 2.1 2.8 .9 .0 7.9 7.3
2014–15 Olympiacos 29 1 18.3 .386 .404 .606 2.1 2.6 .5 .0 6.8 6.9
2015–16
Milano
 10 3 22.5 .435 .259 .846 2.0 2.1 1 .2 7.3 5.4
Career 74 17 21.1 .364 .346 .736 2.4 2.8 .9 .0 7.9 8.0

Domestic leagues

Season Team League GP MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2007–08
Correcaminos UAT Victoria
 Mexico LNPB 36 33.2 .458 .337 .745 4.8 5.1 2.3 .2 16.1
2008–09 8 39.1 .622 .362 .738 6.0 6.3 3.3 .0 23.3
Erie Bayhawks
D-League
 37 31.4 .437 .320 .774 4.2 3.9 1.7 .2 13.6
2009–10
Fort Wayne Mad Ants
 48 35.3 .471 .381 .798 4.6 6.5 1.8 .1 17.1
2010–11 Partizan NiS Serbian KLS 6 23.3 .433 .278 .769 4.0 4.2 2.2 .0 10.2
Fort Wayne Mad Ants
D-League
 21 33.6 .421 .302 .857 4.2 3.6 2.0 .1 16.4
Maccabi Ashdod B.C. Ligat HaAl 11 22.4 .407 .447 .630 2.1 2.9 1.5 .0 10.5
2011–12
Asseco Prokom Gdynia
 VTB United League 10 22.6 .370 .161 .652 2.8 3.3 1.0 .0 7.0
Anadolu Efes S.K.
TBL
 24 21.5 .462 .250 .938 2.5 2.5 1.0 .0 7.5
2012–13 BC Žalgiris Lithuania LKL 16 17.0 .429 .479 .730 2.1 3.2 .9 .1 7.9
VTB United League 26 22.8 .424 .311 .814 2.5 3.5 1.3 .0 8.3
2013–14
Valencia BC
 Liga ACB 40 21.6 .403 .325 .812 2.1 4.5 1.1 .0 7.9
2014–15 Olympiacos B.C. Greek A1 31 17.6 .508 .357 .760 1.6 2.8 .8 .0 6.5

See also

References

  1. Newspapers.com
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  2. ^ Oliver Lafayette Player Bio Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine UH Cougars
  3. ^ Chris Forsberg (13 April 2010). "Another roster addition: Oliver Lafayette". ESPN. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  4. ^ Julian Benbow (3 July 2010). "Bradley gets quicker fixer-upper". The Boston Globe. p. C2. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  5. ^ Chris Forsberg (6 July 2010). "Lafayette looking to secure spot". ESPN. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  6. ^ Former Guard Oliver Lafayette Makes NBA Debut with Celtics on Wednesday Archived 2013-12-21 at the Wayback Machine uhcougars.com, April 15, 2010
  7. ^ Partizan Mt:s grabs Lafayette at point guard
  8. ^ Partizan: Lafayette out, Jerrells in
  9. ^ Lafayette to return to Mad Ants roster news-sentinel.com, December 15, 2010
  10. ^ Besiktas sign Oliver LaFayette
  11. ^ Beşiktaş Cola Turka'da şok gelişme
  12. ^ Maccabi Ashdod tabs Oliver LaFayette
  13. ^ Asseco Prokom Gdynia lands Oliver Lafayette
  14. ^ Anadolu Efes tabs Lafayette
  15. ^ ZALGIRIS adds Lafayette, brings back Juskevicius
  16. ^ VALENCIA BASKET lands Lafayette
  17. ^ "Olympiacos announces Oliver Lafayette". Sportando.com. June 22, 2014. Retrieved June 22, 2014.
  18. ^ "Olympiakos and Oliver Lafayette parted ways". sportando.com. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  19. ^ "Un altro playmaker all'Olimpia: Oliver Lafayette". Olimpiamilano.com (in Italian). July 9, 2015. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  20. ^ "Lafayette ya es jugador del Unicaja" (in Spanish). unicajabaloncesto.com. 18 July 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  21. ^ "Unicaja adds point guard Lafayette". eurocupbasketball.com. 18 July 2016. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  22. ^ "7DAYS EuroCup Finals, Game 3: Unicaja Malaga is the champion!". Eurocupbasketball.com. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  23. ^ Virtus Bologna signs Oliver Lafayette
  24. ^ "Igokea officially adds Oliver Lafayette". Sportando. 13 November 2018.
  25. ^ "Croatian Olympic Committee – News". HOO.hr. June 26, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2014.
  26. ^ "OVERSEAS ELITE COMPLETES THE 3-PEAT, DEFEAT TEAM CHALLENGE ALS 86–83". August 4, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2017.

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