Carlton Myers
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| Born | 30 March 1971 London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Italian / British | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 3.75 in (1.92 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| Playing career | 1988–2010 | ||||||||||||||
| Position | Shooting guard | ||||||||||||||
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| 1988–1992 | Basket Rimini | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | Victoria Libertas Pesaro | ||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Basket Rimini | ||||||||||||||
| 1995–2001 | Fortitudo Bologna | ||||||||||||||
| 2001–2004 | Virtus Roma | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Montepaschi Siena | ||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Valladolid | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2009 | Victoria Libertas Pesaro | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Basket Rimini Crabs | ||||||||||||||
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Carlton Ettore Francesco Myers (born 30 March 1971) is a retired Italian professional basketball player that played in the Italian league and the Euroleague. Myers was initially raised in the United Kingdom. One of the best European shooting guards of his generation, he won a Eurobasket title with the Italian National Team in 1999.
Club career
During his years in Fortitudo Bologna, he became the great rival of another European superstar, Sasha Danilović, the leader of Virtus Bologna, the other basketball team in the city. The duels and the rivalry between Myers and Danilovć are a legendary part of Italian basketball history.
Italian national team
With the senior men's Italian National Team, Myers played in the 1997 and 1999 EuroBaskets, the 1998 FIBA World Championship, and in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where he also had the honour of being his country's flag-bearer at the opening ceremony.
Awards and accomplishments
Club career
- 2x Italian League MVP: 1994, 1997
- Euroleague Top Scorer: 1997
- Italian Cup Champion: Fortitudo Bologna: 1998
- Italian Cup: MVP: 1998
- Italian Supercup Champion: Fortitudo Bologna : 1998–99
- Italian League Champion: Fortitudo Bologna: 2000
Italian national team
- EuroBasket 1997:
Silver: Italian national team - EuroBasket 1999:
Gold: Italian national team - EuroBasket 1999: All-Tournament Team
References
External links
Media related to Carlton Myers at Wikimedia Commons
- Euroleague.net Profile
- Italian League Profile Template:It icon
- Italian Second Division Profile Template:It icon
- Spanish League Profile Template:Es icon
- Eurobasket.com Profile
- Player Profile @ Basket-stats.info
- Unreferenced BLPs from February 2016
- Use dmy dates from October 2012
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Basket Rimini Crabs players
- British people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines descent
- CB Valladolid players
- English basketball players
- English people of Italian descent
- FIBA EuroBasket-winning players
- Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna players
- Italian expatriate basketball people in Spain
- Italian basketball players
- Lega Basket Serie A players
- Liga ACB players
- Mens Sana Basket players
- Olympic basketball players of Italy
- Pallacanestro Virtus Roma players
- Shooting guards
- Sportspeople from London
- Victoria Libertas Pesaro players
- Basketball players from Greater London
- Expatriate basketball people in Spain