Earl Calloway

Earl Calloway

Calloway in action with Unicaja Málaga
No. 11 – İstanbul BB
Position Point guard
League Turkish Basketball Super League
Personal information
Born (1983-09-30) September 30, 1983
Atlanta, Georgia
Nationality Bulgarian / American
Listed height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Career information
High school Westlake (Atlanta, Georgia)
College
NBA draft 2007 / Undrafted
Playing career 2007–present
Career history
2007–2008 Fort Wayne Mad Ants
2008–2009 Cibona Zagreb
2009–2012 Cajasol Sevilla
2012–2014 Unicaja Málaga
2014–2016 Royal Halı Gaziantep
2016–present İstanbul BB
Career highlights and awards

Earl Genard Calloway (born September 30, 1983) is an American-born naturalized Bulgarian professional basketball player for İstanbul BB of the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL).

High school career

Calloway played high school basketball at Westlake High School, in Atlanta, Georgia.

College career

Calloway played college basketball at New Mexico State from 2002 to 2003, at Georgia Perimeter College from 2004 to 2005 and at Indiana University with Indiana Hoosiers from 2005 to 2007 .

Career overview

After going undrafted in the 2007 NBA draft, Calloway joined Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the NBA Development League. He led his team in scoring with 19 points per game and was sixth in the league with 5.8 assists and fourth with 2.1 steals per game. He also contributed 5.1 rebounds per game and was named team MVP at the end of the season.

The next season, he signed with Cibona Zagreb.[1] With Cibona, he won the Croatian League and the Croatian Cup.

On August 3, 2009, Calloway joined Cajasol Sevilla on a one year deal.[2] In his first season with Cajasol, he averaged 9.4 points and 4.2 assists in 36 Spanish League games. On July 23, 2010, he extended his contract until the end of the 2011-12 season.[3]

From 2012 to 2014 he played with Unicaja Málaga. [4]

In July 2014, he signed a two-year deal with the Turkish team Royal Halı Gaziantep.[5]

On August 24, 2016, Calloway signed with İstanbul BB for the 2016–17 season.[6]

Bulgaria national team

Calloway has citizenship with Bulgaria,[7] and he played with the senior men's Bulgaria national basketball team at the qualification tournament for EuroBasket 2011

Euroleague 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

Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season. He also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2008–09 Cibona 16 16 29.6 .507 .333 .842 3.4 2.8 1.6 .0 12.6 13.8
2012–13 Unicaja 23 19 25.0 .497 .443 .733 3.1 2.3 1.2 .2 9.3 11.3
2013–14 Unicaja 22 17 19.5 .422 .362 .933 2.1 2.9 .8 .1 6.7 7.1
Career 61 52 24.2 .477 .391 .824 2.8 2.6 1.2 .1 9.2 10.5

References

  1. ↑ "Earl Calloway signs with Cibona Zagreb". Insidethehall.com. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "Earl Calloway new player of Cajasol". Sportando.com. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Cajasol extends Earl Calloway". Eurocupbasketball.com. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Unicaja announces Earl Calloway". euroleague.net. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "Gaziantep signs Earl Calloway to a two-year deal". Sportando.com. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Istanbul BSB lands Earl Calloway". Sportando.com. August 24, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Earl Calloway to get Bulgaria passport". Sportando.com. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
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