Terence Morris

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Terence Morris
Personal information
Born (1979-01-11) January 11, 1979 (age 45)
FC Barcelona
Career highlights and awards
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Terence Darea Morris (born January 11, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player. He was twice the Israeli Basketball Premier League Defensive Player of the Year, in 2007 and 2008. He was an All-EuroLeague First Team selection in 2008.

High school career

Terence Morris played his high school basketball for Governor Thomas Johnson High School in Frederick, Maryland, leading the TJ Patriots to the Maryland Class 3A state title as a senior in 1997. He played under former TJ Patriots coach Tom Dickman, who until recently was the record holder for wins by a public school coach in Maryland with 592 wins in 29 seasons.

College career

A 6 ft 9+1⁄2 in (2.07 m)

2001 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
to cap his senior season.

Professional career

NBA

Morris was eventually selected by the

Columbus Riverdragons (now known as the Austin Spurs), and signed with the Los Angeles Clippers in September, 2004, but was waived before the season started. He signed with the Orlando Magic
in September 2005. He earned a roster spot for the remainder of the season, but was again waived in February 2006.

Morris' final NBA game was played on February 14, 2006 in a 93 - 107 loss to the Miami Heat where Morris only played for 37 seconds and recorded no stats.

Europe

After being waived by the Los Angeles Clippers in 2004, he decided to move to Europe and signed with Apollon Patras of the Greek League.

Morris began the 2006–07 season unaffiliated to a team, but in December 2006, he signed with the

Israeli League club Hapoel Jerusalem until the end of the season. With Hapoel he won an Israeli State Cup
.

On June 13, 2007, he signed with the EuroLeague club Maccabi Tel Aviv.[3] He was twice the Israeli Basketball Premier League Defensive Player of the Year, in 2007 and 2008. On May 3, 2008, Morris won a place in the 2007–08 All-EuroLeague First team as a result of his play and the fact that his team reached the EuroLeague Final.

He then transferred to the

FC Barcelona,[5] with whom he won his first EuroLeague competition in 2010.[6]
He left Barcelona after two seasons, and announced his retirement.

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
2001–02 Houston 68 12 16.3 .384 .192 .643 3.1 .9 .3 .4 3.8
2002–03 Houston 49 0 12.9 .466 .219 .786 2.6 .5 .2 .3 3.7
2005–06 Orlando 22 0 8.7 .327 .000 1.000 1.7 .2 .3 .2 1.6
Career 139 12 13.9 .407 .196 .711 2.7 .7 .3 .4 3.4

References

  1. ^ "MORRIS, TERENCE - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL". www.euroleague.net.
  2. ^ "NBA Draft 2001". nba.com. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
  3. ^ "Maccabi inks big man Morris". Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL. 8 September 2023.
  4. ^ "CSKA signs Terence Morris, Sasha Kaun". Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL. 8 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Terrence Morris, atado". Mundo Deportivo. July 11, 2009.
  6. ^ El Barça, campió d'Europa 2010 (Catalan)

External links

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