After being drafted by the Atlanta Hawks this summer, Gladyr left the Ukraine for the first time and moved to the ACB to play with Suzuki Manresa (formerly known as Ricoh Manresa). Manresa have an 11-13 record on the season, yet they’re comfortably in the middle of the table, currently placing 10th out of 18 ACB teams. Gladyr is third on the team in scoring with a 9.9 ppg average, alongside 2.1 rebounds, 3.6 fouls and no other significant statistics per game. For a purported shooter, though, he’s not shooting too well, shooting only 32% from three-point range. And given that he has attempted 135 three-pointers compared to only 35 two-pointers, that’s not ideal. It is not the best first season in Spain for Gladyr, then; that said, for a 20-year-old in the ACB, it’s pretty good. Young players don’t normally play much there.
Glover played briefly on the 2004-2005 Spurs team that won the NBA Championship, but found himself having to go to summer league that year in order to get more employment. After averaging 19/5/5 for the Rockets team, he got a contract from Houston and made the team, but was waived in December of that year without playing a game. He never played in the NBA again.
Glover split the 2006-07 season between Lebanon and the D-League, and later played for a couple of Dominican Republic teams. He last played in March 2008 with a Venezuelan team called Gaiteros de Zulia, for whom he totalled 8 points in his only appearance. As for what he’s done since then, here’s Dion telling you himself.
Also note the accuracy of his prediction there. Well, half of it.
Ex-Pistons draft pick Glyniadakis is Olympiacos’ 15th and cheapest man. Olympiacos bought him from Marousi in the summer (along with former Minnesota pick Loukas Mavrokefalidis) in order to fill their quota of Greeks, and the two now spend a lot of time on the bench together, waiting for Olympiacos to build up a lead so big that they can take out Giannis Bourousis, Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Nikola Vujcic and Linas Kleiza. Glyniadakis has played 103 minutes all season, totalling 33 points, 22 rebounds and 28 fouls. This means he must have made contact with an opposing player at least 28 times. I’m not sure I believe that.
NBA journeyman Anthony Goldwire made an unexpected appearance in the Spanish fourth division last season at the age of 37, playing for the remnants of Girona, a former ACB team who imploded due to bankruptcy a couple of years ago. He averaged 10.4 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.6 assists at that incredibly low standard of basketball, and has since called it quits. He now assists Lifetime Fitness in establishing their basketball league program. Goldwire was also on hand to help manage the Bakersfield Jam’s open tryout back in March, which seems odd in that he appears to hold no formal position with the team.
This seems like a good moment to post a picture of Anthony Goldwire modelling an ill-fitting coat.
Gomes is an athletic Portuguese forward who was an NBA draft candidate back in 2007. He is playing with Breogan in Spain’s LEB Gold, and is averaging 11.7 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. Gomes was not drafted and is not very interesting, so let’s move on to Jamon Gordon.
Gordon was one of the replacements Marousi brought in this summer as they tooled up for their debut EuroLeague season. It was a good season at that; they were still in the competition up until yesterday, when unfortunately their already-eliminated Greek rivals Panathinaikos beat them by three points and eliminated them. Gordon had 10 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists in the game.
On the season, Gordon leads the team in assists in both the EuroLeague and Greek leagues, a feat not insignificant considering that Marousi play a two point guard line-up with Gordon and Billy Keys. Gordon averages 10.5 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.1 assists in the EuroLeague, alongside 8.9/3.1/4.1 in the Greek league. He has shot a combined 17/71 from three-point range.
He is known as Jamon Lucas in Greece, even having that on the back of his jersey. I do not know why this is.
The confusingly similarly-named Jamont Gordon is also in the EuroLeague, playing for Cibona Zagreb. Like Marousi, Cibona just got knocked out of the EuroLeague at the Top 16 stage; like Jamon, Jamont leads his team in assists. He averaged 13.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game in EuroLeague play, including ranking first overall in scoring in the Last 16 group stage (20 ppg) and fifth in rebounds. Gordon also averages 13.1 points, 4.0 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game in the Adriatic League.
Jamon Gordon is the lefty out of Virginia Tech. Jamont Gordon is the lefty out of Mississippi State. They’re both big strong athletic point guards with jump shot concerns, whom both just got knocked out of the EuroLeague. It’s not in the least bit confusing.
As you probably already know, Brian Grant recently went public with his struggle against early onset Parkinson’s. That struggle continues; sadly, that struggle will always continue, because a cure does not yet exist. This article by Ken Berger describes Grant’s daily battle with the disease, what it’s cost him, and of what it’s going to cost him. I found it very upsetting and I believe you will too. God bless you, Brian Grant. He definitely owes you one.
Since leaving Oklahoma in 2006, Gray has spent four years in France. He started with Chalon, averaging 16.1 ppg, 6.1 rpg, and 1.3 bpg, before moving to Paris-Levallois for the 2007/08 season and averaging 10.4/5.0/1.3. Last year playing for Roanne, those numbers shot up to 19.5/7.3/1.1, which was enough to get him a training camp contract with the L.A. Clippers. He didn’t make the team, though, and thus went back to France to rejoin Chalon, for whom he is averaging 17.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 0.7 blocks per game in the French league, alongside 14.4/5.9/2.0 in the EuroChallenge.
Caleb Green, one of Division I’s elusive 2000/1000 club, is still in Belgium. Last year, he averaged 15/6 for Dexia Mons-Hainaut, and this season he’s averaging 12.0 points and 5.1 rebounds per game for Oostende.
After going 9-29 from three-point range in his four-year college career – as opposed to his 812-1495 from two-point range – Green is now turning himself into a three-point shooter. He has 78 three-point attempts in 21 games this year, compared with 101 two-pointers and 88 free throws. He’s good at them, too, making 34 of those 78 for a 43.6% success rate. Reinventing himself rather well, it appears.
His teammates there include Eddie Gill and Bracey Wright, and Oostende also feature two other Americans in Matt Lojeski and former Padres closer Trevor Huffman. The rest of Oostende’s rotation features a Cameroonian (Stephane Pelle), a Slovenian (Dragisa Drobnjak), a Nigerian (Leigh Enobakhare, henceforth known as “Emo back hair”) and a Bosnian Serb (Veselin Petrovic). Other players to have left Oostende during the season include Ivan Paunic (Serbian international; moved to Aris), Vladan Vukosavljevic (another Serbian; moved to Aliaga in Turkey), and Javier Mojica (American/Puerto Rican; now playing for Bayamon in Puerto Rico). Because of those 12 foreigners, Belgian players for Oostende have played only 176 minutes all season, split between three players; Quentin Serron (166), Jean Salumu (7) and Yacine Baeri (3). That’s 176 out of a possible 4,200 minutes; therefore, only 4.19% of Oostende’s PT has been shared amongst Belgian players. For comparison’s sake, Americans have a 53.62% share.
Green made his way to his fifth consecutive NBA training camp when he signed with the Minnesota Timberwolves this summer. He did not make the team, though, as he and every other signee lost out on a spot to Jason Hart, who played all of five minutes for the Wolves and who is now out of the league. Green then moved to Greece and joined Olimpia Larissa, leading them in scoring with a 14.3 ppg average to go along with 4.1 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game. However, he left the team in January, reportedly because of a pay dispute. (Note: when American players leave Greek teams midseason, it is usually because of a pay dispute.) Green has joined the annual Puerto Rican exodus, signing with Galitos de Isabela. In his two games for the team so far, Green put up 38 points and 13 rebounds.
Green squirmed out four years in the NBA, but never came close to realising the potential that a man with his combination of athleticism and jump shooting has by default. He last played with the Mavericks; however, at the Nerdjerkfest Conference Thing last week (or whatever it was called; said with affection, by the way), Mark Cuban famously and amusingly stated that Green “just doesn’t understand the game of basketball.” Quite the burn there from a man who spent a year signing his paychecks, but after four years of experimenting, the whole NBA seems to have bought into it.
Green is now in Russia playing for Lokomotiv Kuban. He is averaging 15.6 points and 3.4 rebounds per game.
5 Comments about Where Are They Now, 2010; Part 25
Tikot12 March, 2010, 5:30 pm
Hi!!!Just some stuff about Sergyi Gladyr's life in Spain. She's currently injured because he punched a hoarding during a game after missing a 3 pointer shot. Result: a broken hand. For a shooter like Gladyr, that sucked. I think he still have to be an extra month out.He's also a tough defender, and made an amazing block to center Chris Moss some weeks ago. I'm sure you will find it in Youtube.Besides of that, I had the chance to meet him personally in Manresa, and he doesn't think he has yet the level to play in the NBA, but it's convinced that he can do great things in Spain. He has the talent to do it, i'm sure.And the people around him say he's a hard-working nice guy. It seems he's already adapted to Spain. Such a shame his injury!.Your webpage is absolutely classic. Great work!!Good luck!!Tikot
Anonymous13 March, 2010, 6:19 pm
Christians have mistakenly believed the perception of the Biblical definintion of The Beast as a person. I suggest The Beast instead refers to a place:::The San Francisco Bay Area. In fact the Gods offer a geographic clue suggesting this, like so many others they offer around the globe, to help people understandL::: Mt.Diablo, "The Devil" is the "eye" of The Beast, the EastBay shoreline as the upper jaw/incisors while the peninsula is the grinding lower jaw. Witness the disturbing upturned smile in the gullet. The fact than man has shaped much of the shoreline in the 20th century is a testiment to the God's refusal to accept any culpability. Gold Rush, counter-culture, alternate lifestyle acceptance, etc. The Beast was used to promote social decay throughout the 20th century and beyond. Difficult to perceive in the current age, one can understand their impacts from a historical perspective. There was a time when once the Gods "divinely" inspired punishment, where the act was inflicted by the hand of God. They were punishing people and accepting the culpability arising, maintaining societal integrity. Now, in the 20th century and beyond, the Gods tempt man to inflict this punishment, selling them on "earning", incurring no culpability in the process. The result is social decay and deterioration of mankind's favor in the eyes of the Gods.
The Italian peninsula is very pronounced as it juts out into the Medietereanean. Considering the shape it is quite obvious they were the primary targets of the post-IceAge/Straight of Gibralter/Noah's Flood disaster. Considering the shape of the boot and how Sicily "caught" the surge, the resulting tsunami inundated the entire southern portion of the peninsula, killing everything and perhaps covering even the highest land masses. In the 20th century the Italians were convinced entering clone hosting was ascention into heaven, and their success was a recruiting tool, just as the Holocaust was for the Jews.
The Gods have black women betray the men to prime misogyny in the black community. They're lying to you and they've been your WHOLE LIVES!! Europeans deserved to be inflicted with Christianity and the United States. It's just too bad the black man had to assimilate into this white punishment. How ironic:::As they strive for "equal rights" they actually are sinking lower into the mire of disfavor. Reverse positioning.
Just as the Gods prohibited the Italians from attacking the Moors because of their favor, so were the Jews prohibited from attacking (most) motherland Germans. Instead they attacked German-Americans. And the United States for ignoring the Holocaust as it happened. Thus we had the 60s and the deterioration of decency in society. Californication. The Italians, sexual a primary problem, had an endless supply at hand. The Jews, sheltered from this new-world holocaust in their communities, watched the devestation. As you entered the "valley of steel" you fell prey to temptation and betrayed your families and were punished:::The Gods "managed" these groups whom did their dirty work, "downgrading" the Jews for their obscene wickedness post-Holocaust. Both Catholic, the Irish were too drunk to organize, which is why they didn't hurt the BILLIONS which Italians did.
It was the degenerate Italians who planned and did the legwork for WWII who were funneled into the Nazi death camps when they thought they were ascending into heaven, avoiding the ugliness they planned for everybody else. Life can be so sweet. I want to play doctor.
And justice for all.
Sham14 March, 2010, 9:03 am
That's pretty much the best comment ever.
Anonymous18 March, 2010, 2:05 am
the previous post said you would have one of james gist more famous teamates and i was expecting to see john gilchrist but he is no where to be found
Sham18 March, 2010, 11:58 am
I'm referring to one of Gist's current teammates.Gilchrist was one of the best players in Australia this year but suffered a season ending injury a few weeks back.
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