Bernard James
James with the Mavericks
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| No. 0 – Limoges CSP | |
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| Position | Center |
| League | LNB Pro A |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
February 7, 1985 Savannah, Georgia |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) |
| Listed weight | 240 lb (109 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school |
Windsor Forest (Savannah, Georgia) |
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| NBA draft | 2012 / Round: 2 / Pick: 33rd overall |
| Selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers | |
| Playing career | 2012–present |
| Career history | |
| 2012–2014 | Dallas Mavericks |
| 2014 | →Texas Legends |
| 2014 | Texas Legends |
| 2014–2015 | Shanghai Sharks |
| 2015 | Dallas Mavericks |
| 2015–2016 | Shanghai Sharks |
| 2016 | Galatasaray |
| 2017–present | Limoges CSP |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Stats at NBA.com | |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Bernard Ronald James (born February 7, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for Limoges CSP of the LNB Pro A. He played college basketball for Florida State University.
In a 2012 piece for The Tipoff, the magazine of the United States Basketball Writers Association, ESPN.com writer Dana O'Neil called James
...the most unconventional of high school dropouts, a kid who grew disenchanted with the social hierarchy of school yet would head to Barnes & Noble to read on the days that he cut.
After dropping out, he earned his GED, and shortly afterwards enlisted in the United States Air Force while still 17. He served six years in the Air Force as a security forces specialist, attaining the rank of Staff Sergeant. He was assigned to the 9th Security Forces Squadron at Beale Air Force Base and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom to Iraq, Qatar, and Afghanistan.
He initially planned to have a career in the military, but was drafted onto an intramural basketball team at his base. During this time, he underwent a late growth spurt of 5 inches (13 cm), and soon rose through the ranks of military basketball to the Air Force's all-star team. This in turn led him to pursue basketball as a potential career path; when his enlistment term expired, he left the Air Force and enrolled at Tallahassee Community College so that he could eventually fully qualify for NCAA Division I.
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