No. 6 – Club Ferro Carril Oeste | |
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Position | Small forward |
League | Liga Nacional de Básquet |
Personal information | |
Born |
Corona, California |
August 27, 1985
Nationality | American |
Listed height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
Listed weight | 205 lb (93 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Orange (Orange, California) |
College | UC Irvine (2004–2008) |
NBA draft | 2008 / Undrafted |
Playing career | 2008–present |
Career history | |
2008–2009 | Iowa Energy |
2010 | Amsterdam |
2010 | VEF Rīga |
2010–2011 | Sydney Kings |
2012 | Dakota Wizards |
2012 | Rayos de Hermosillo |
2012–2013 | Étoile de Charleville-Mézières |
2013 | Rayos de Hermosillo |
2013–2015 | Shinshu Brave Warriors |
2015–present | Club Ferro Carril Oeste |
Career highlights and awards | |
Patrick Elliot Sanders (born August 27, 1985) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for Club Ferro Carril Oeste of the Argentine Liga Nacional de Básquet. He played college basketball for UC-Irvine.
Sanders arrived at UC-Irvine after averaging 17 points and 12 rebounds per game in high school. His freshman year saw him receive minimal playing time, with Sanders averaging 1.7 points and 1.6 rebounds per game. As a sophomore, he broke into the starting lineup in the second part of the year. He went to start 19 of the final 20 games for the Anteaters.
As a junior, he led the Anteaters in scoring and was named honorable mention All-Big West Conference for an effort that saw him average 11.9 points and 1.6 blocks (ranking second in the league) per game. As a senior, he was named first-team All-Big West after leading the Anteaters with 15.8 points per game. He finished sixth in the conference in scoring, third in three-point field goal percentage, sixth in field-goal percentage, and seventh in free-throw percentage.
In Big West conference play, Sanders ranked fourth in scoring at 17.8 points per game, seventh in field goal percentage shooting at .486, fourth in free throw percentage at .861, and sixth in three-point percentage at .463.
After going undrafted in the 2008 NBA draft, Sanders joined the Sacramento Kings for the 2008 NBA Summer League. He later joined the Iowa Energy of the NBA Development League in November 2008, where he spent the 2008–09 season until being waived by the Energy on March 23, 2009 due to injury. In 41 games for the Energy (36 starts), he averaged 13.9 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game. On January 22, 2009, Sanders scored 43 points in the Energy's 142–140 double overtime win over the Dakota Wizards.
The injury kept him out of action for 10 months, signing with Amsterdam Basketball Club in January 2010 for the rest of the 2009–10 season. In 20 games for Amsterdam, he averaged 14.8 points, 4.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.1 blocks per game.