Personal information | |
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Born | San Diego, California, U. S. | November 30, 1955
Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
Listed weight | 203 lb (92 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Patrick Henry (San Diego, California) |
College | San Diego State (1974–1978) |
NBA draft | 1978: 3rd round, 63rd overall pick |
Selected by the Phoenix Suns | |
Playing career | 1978–1984 |
Position | Power forward / center |
Number | 50 |
Career history | |
1978–1983 | Phoenix Suns |
1983–1984 | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Career NBA statistics | |
Points | 1,257 (3.8 ppg) |
Rebounds | 916 (2.8 rpg) |
Assists | 343 (1.0 apg) |
Stats at NBA.com | |
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Joel Bruce Kramer (born October 30, 1955) is a retired American professional basketball player. Listed at 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) and 203 pounds (92 kg), he played the power forward and center positions. After playing college basketball at San Diego State University, he had a five-season career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1978–1983 with the Phoenix Suns.
Early life
Kramer was born in San Diego, California, and is Jewish.[1][2][3] He attended Patrick Henry High School in San Diego.[1] There, he played for the basketball team and was League Player of the Year and All-California Interscholastic Federation his senior season.[4]
Basketball career
Kramer played college basketball on a basketball scholarship at San Diego State University, during which he averaged 9.6 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, while shooting .521 from the field.[1] After recovering from a broken foot, he averaged over 9 rebounds per game his last two seasons.[5] In 1977–78, he set a school consecutive free throw record of 33.[6] As a senior, he was named 1978 Pacific Coast Athletic Association Player of the Year.[4][5]
He played basketball for Team USA at the 1977 Maccabiah Games, winning a gold medal.[4]
Kramer was selected with the 19th pick of the third round by the Phoenix Suns in the 1978 NBA draft.[1] He had a five-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1978–1983, primarily at center and power forward.[1] In his rookie season, he played in 82 games, tying for the NBA lead, and in 1980–81 he was third in the NBA with 82 games played.[1]
After playing for the Suns, Kramer continued his playing career in Israel with Maccabi Tel Aviv, for whom he played for just a few months after signing for a reported $100,000 a year.[7][8] He was released in January 1984.[8]
Post-playing career
Kramer was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.[4] He was inducted into the San Diego Aztecs Hall of Fame in 1997.[5]
Kramer has held executive roles with CBIZ, an American accounting and financial services firm, working as the managing director of the Phoenix office's tax division as of October 2022.[9]
See also
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Joel Kramer Stats | Basketball-Reference.com
- ↑ Day by Day in Jewish Sports History – Bob Wechsler
- ↑ The 100 Greatest Jews in Sports: Ranked According to Achievement – B. P. Robert Stephen Silverman
- 1 2 3 4 Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home
- 1 2 3 GoAztecs.com
- ↑ "BYU Hands the Aztecs a Bitter Loss: College basketball: SDSU's conference opener slips away in the second half. Cougars win, 73–61." – latimes
- ↑ AJHS honors state's Jewish athletes Archived 2011-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, January 5, 2001
- 1 2 "Tel Aviv Basketball Team Releases Highly Touted Player from the U.S." | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
- ↑ "Joel B. Kramer". cbiz.com. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
External links
- NBA stats @ basketballreference.com