Schea Cotton
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 20, 1978 Inglewood, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Listed weight | 215 lb (98 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school |
St. John Bosco (Bellflower, California) Mater Dei (Santa Ana, California) St. Thomas More (Oakdale, Connecticut) |
| College |
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| NBA draft | 2000 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 2000–2010 |
| Position | Guard |
| Career history | |
| 2001 | KK Partizan (Serbia) |
| 2001 | Shanghai Sharks (China) |
| 2002 | Étendard de Brest (France) |
| 2002 | Évreux (France) |
| 2003 | Leneros de Los Mina (Dominican Republic) |
| 2003 | Texas Rim Rockers (USBL) |
| 2003–2004 | Long Beach Jam (ABA) |
| 2004 | Cocodrilos de Caracas (Venezuela) |
| 2004 | Cedar Rapids River Raiders (USBL) |
| 2004–2005 | Harlem Globetrotters |
| 2005 | Pennsylvania Valley Dawgs (USBL) |
| 2008 | Deportivo Tachira (Venezuela) |
| 2008 | Lobos Grises de la UAD (Mexico) |
| 2010 | Guaros de Lara (Venezuela) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Vernon Scheavalie "Schea" Cotton (born May 20, 1978) is an American former professional basketball player. He was highly touted as a high school player, when he seemed destined to play professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 10 years professionally, but never reached the NBA.
Growing up in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, Cotton was physically mature beyond his years. He gained national exposure before even playing in high school. The interest level in his prep career was arguably as high as any player ever. Due to disputes over his entrance examination scores with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), his college basketball career was delayed two years. After a lawsuit with the NCAA was settled, Cotton played one season with Alabama. He decided to forego his final two years of college eligibility to enter the 2000 NBA draft, but he went undrafted. Cotton played professionally for 10 years, both domestically as well as in numerous foreign countries. After retiring as a player, he became a basketball coach and trainer for young players.
Vernon Scheavalie Cotton was born in Los Angeles County at Inglewood, California, to Gaynell and James Cotton. He was named by his father after singer Maurice Chevalier. As kids could not pronounce his name, Cotton came to be known as Schea. After his family moved from San Pedro, California in 1990 due to concerns with gangs, he enrolled at St. Irenaeus Catholic School in Cypress. The school did not have any openings in the seventh grade, so Cotton repeated the sixth grade. His mother denied that he was held back to gain a physical advantage to earn an athletic scholarship. At age 12 and in the sixth grade, he stood 6 feet (1.8 m) and 180 pounds (82 kg) and was captain on a team which included seventh- and eighth-graders. That year, Cotton was featured in the Los Angeles Times. He was able to dunk on alley-oops as a seventh-grader, which was uncommon at the time. Cotton became nationally known before even reaching high school. According to ESPN in 2010, the expectations for him were "as great as any pre-high school aged player ever, even LeBron James."
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