Kameron Taylor

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Kameron Taylor
Kameron Taylor1.jpg
Taylor with Strasbourg in February 2022
No. 6–Unicaja
Position Shooting guard / small forward
League Liga ACB
Personal information
Born (1994-10-05) October 5, 1994 (age 29)
Hyattsville, Maryland, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High school DeMatha Catholic
(Hyattsville, Maryland)
College Seton Hill (2012–2016)
NBA draft 2016: undrafted
Playing career2016–present
Career history
2016–2017 Erdgas Ehingen
2017–2018 Dragons Rhöndorf
2018 s.Oliver Würzburg
2018–2019 PVSK Panthers
2019–2020 Brose Bamberg
2020–2021 Hamburg Towers
2021–2022 Maccabi Tel Aviv
2022→SIG Strasbourg
2022–2023 Bàsquet Girona
2023–present Unicaja
Career highlights and awards
  • Hungarian NB I/A steals leader (2019)
  • German ProB leading scorer (2018)
  • First-team All-PSAC West (2016)

Kameron Milton Allante Taylor (born October 5, 1994), is an American basketball player for Unicaja of the Spanish Liga ACB. He plays the shooting guard and small forward positions.

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Early life

He was born in Hyattsville, Maryland, and his hometown is Landover, Maryland. [1] [2] He is 6' 6" (198 cm), and weighs 200 pounds (91 kg). [3]

High school

In high school, Taylor played for DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville. [2] In his senior season in 2010–11, he averaged 12 points, 8 rebounds, and 6 assists. [2] He was All Washington Catholic Athletic Conference honorable mention. [2]

College career

Taylor joined Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania in 2012, where he majored in Sociology. [4] [5] [6] He played for the Seton Hill Griffins in NCAA Division II and the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC). [7] In his freshman year in 2012–13 he averaged 7.8 points, 4.8 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 1.5 steals per game. [2] He shot 41% from the floor and 70% from the free throw line. [2]

In his sophomore year in 2013–14 he averaged 12.6 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.6 assists, and 2.0 steals per game. [2] He shot 44% from the floor and 78% from the free throw line. [2]

In his junior year in 2014–15 he was a preseason All-PSAC West selection. [2] He averaged 13.2 points and 4.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists, and 1.0 steals per game. [2] [8] He shot 43% from the floor and 71% from the free throw line. [2]

In his senior year in 2015–16, he averaged 20.8 points, 8.7 rebounds, 4.1 assists, and 2.2 steals per game. [8] He shot 49.6% from the floor, and 76.8% from the line. [8] He was named National Association of Basketball Coaches All-District Second Team and First Team All-PSAC West. [9] He graduated in the spring of 2016. [10]

Professional career

In 2016, after not being drafted by the any NBA team, Taylor signed with Ehingen Urspring in the ProA, the second German division. In 2016–17 for them he averaged 10.8 points, 3.9 rebounds, 2.3 assists, and 1.3 steals per game, while shooting 50.0% from the floor, 43.9% from three point range, and 80.2% from the line. [8] In 2017 Taylor signed with Dragons Rhöndorf in the ProB, the third German division. In 2017-18 for them he averaged 23.4 points (leading the league), 7.9 rebounds, 5.6 assists (5th), and 2.6 steals (2nd) per game. [8] [11]

In March 2018 Taylor signed with s.Oliver Würzburg in the German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), the country's highest level, with whom he played eight games. [12] [13] Then in 2018, Taylor joined Hungarian basketball team PVSK Panthers in the NB I/A, the highest level league in Hungary, averaging 19.2 points (5th in the league), 8.1 rebounds, 3.9 rebounds, and 2.2 steals (tops in the division) per game. [14] [15] [16] [12] In 2019 he then played for Brose Bamberg of the BBL and the Basketball Champions League, averaging 9.5 points and 3.8 rebounds in 12 games. [17] [12] Later in 2019 Taylor joined Hamburg Towers. [18] [19] In 2020–21 with Hamburg, as an off-guard and point forward he averaged 14.3 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 1.5 steals (5th in the league) per game. [20] [12] [21]

In July 2021, Kameron signed a one-year contract with an option for a second season with Israeli Euroleague and Israeli Basketball Premier League team Maccabi Tel Aviv. [22] [23] He plays the shooting guard and small forward positions for the team, and is known for his defense. [24] [22] On January 26, 2022, he was loaned to SIG Strasbourg of the LNB Pro A until end of the season. [25]

On July 21, 2022, he has signed with Bàsquet Girona of the Liga ACB. [26]

On July 14, 2023, he signed with Unicaja of the Spanish Liga ACB. [27]

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References

  1. ↑ "Kameron Taylor Player Profile, Maccabi Playtika Tel-Aviv, News, Stats". Eurobasket.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Kameron Taylor - Men's Basketball". Seton Hill University Athletics.
  3. ↑ "Kameron Taylor Player Profile, Seton Hill, NCAA Stats, International Stats, Game Logs, Bests, Awards - RealGM". basketball.realgm.com.
  4. ↑ "Kameron Taylor (SHU 16) Plays Professional Basketball in Germany". Seton Hill University.
  5. ↑ "Kameron Taylor - Men's Basketball". Seton Hill University Athletics. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
  6. ↑ "District college notebook: Senior Kameron Taylor blossoms into a star for Seton Hill basketball". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Kameron Taylor (SHU 16) Plays Professional Basketball in Germany". Seton Hill University. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
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  10. ↑ "Former SHU basketball player moves to Germany". setonianonline.com. September 9, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Germany D3 basketball stats, results, box score, scout report and video online | Scouting4U". old.scouting4u.com.
  12. 1 2 3 4 "The Kameron's Lens: Taylor looks to make his mark for Maccabi in the double week ahead". October 12, 2021.
  13. ↑ AG, iWelt (March 29, 2018). "Kameron Taylor verstärkt s.Oliver Würzburg". www.soliver-wuerzburg.de (in German). Retrieved September 30, 2021.
  14. ↑ "Hungary basketball stats, results, box score, scout report and video online | Scouting4U". old.scouting4u.com.
  15. ↑ "Brose Bamberg adds Kameron Taylor". Eurohoops. July 3, 2019.
  16. ↑ Megosztom, Kosárlabda. "Nem könnyű a legjobbat kiválasztani száz közül". BAMA (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on September 30, 2021. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
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  19. ↑ Schmidt-Scheuber, Miles (January 23, 2021). "A Little Alster Lake Break Hasn´t Hurt Kameron Taylor´s Route To Becoming That Complete Player For The Hamburg Towers".
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  22. 1 2 "Maccabi Tel Aviv retools with flurry of signings". The Jerusalem Post. July 6, 2021.
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  26. ↑ Carchia, Emiliano (July 21, 2022). "Basquet Girona lands Kameron Taylor". Sportando. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
  27. ↑ Carchia, Emiliano (July 14, 2023). "Kameron Taylor inks with Unicaja Malaga". Sportando. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
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