Paul Graham (basketball player)

Paul Graham
Personal information
Born (1967-11-28) November 28, 1967 (age 56)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High schoolBenjamin Franklin
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
CollegeOhio (1985–1989)
NBA draft1989: undrafted
Playing career1990–2004
PositionSmall forward / shooting guard
Number25
Career history
1990Goldfields Giants
1990–1991Albany Patroons
19911994Atlanta Hawks
1994–1995Rapid City Thrillers
1995–1997Omaha Racers
1997Mayagüez
1997–1998Dijon
1998Atlantic City Seagulls
1998–1999Elitzur Givat Shmuel
1999–2000Strasbourg IG
2000San Carlos
2000–2001Chalon
2001–2002BK Skonto
2002Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs
2004Delaware Destroyers
Career highlights and awards
Stats at NBA.com Edit this at Wikidata
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Paul Graham (born November 28, 1967) is an American former professional basketball player. He played four years of college basketball for Ohio, where he averaged 19.7 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 110 career games.[1]

After college, Graham moved to Australia in 1990 and joined the Goldfields Giants of the State Basketball League (SBL). He averaged 43.3 points in 10 games for the Giants[2] and scored 82 points in his final game.[3] It marked the equal highest single-game points total in SBL history.[4]

Upon his return to America, Graham joined the Albany Patroons of the Continental Basketball Association for the 1990–91 season. Following this stint, he had a three-year run with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks from 1991 to 1994. In 179 games for the Hawks, he averaged 8.4 points, 2.4 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.0 steals in 18.7 minutes per game.[5]

Between 1994 and 1997, Graham played in the Continental Basketball Association. From 1997, he embarked on an overseas career in places like Puerto Rico and France before returning to the U.S. in mid-1998. He later had stints in Israel, France, the Dominican Republic and Latvia before wrapping up his career with minor stints in the United States Basketball League and the Eastern Basketball Alliance.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Paul Graham Stats
  2. ^ "STATE BASKETBALL LEAGUE MEN PLAYER REGISTER". Basketball Western Australia. Archived from the original on July 18, 2005. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  3. ^ "Giants Throwback Thursday – Third Edition". Goldfields Giants. May 21, 2015. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  4. ^ "STATE BASKETBALL LEAGUE MEN RECORD PERFORMANCES". Basketball Western Australia. Archived from the original on July 18, 2005. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
  5. ^ Paul Graham NBA Stats