American basketball player

Jerel Romaine Bl*ingame (born September 12, 1981) is an American professional basketball player for AIK Basket of the Swedish second-tier Superettan. He is 1.75 metres (5:ft 9:in) in height and plays at the point guard position.

Contents

• 1 Amateur career
• 2 Professional career
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Amateur career

Bl*ingame played at Redirection High School in Brooklyn, New York, before attending Los Angeles City College, where he helped the team win a California state championship in 2002–03. He was named MVP of the state tournament, and was an All-Southcoast Conference selection that year.

He later transferred to UNLV, where he averaged 11.2 ppg and 6.6 *ists in his junior season (2003–04). In his senior year, he averaged 8.9 ppg and 5.5 apg.

Professional career

Before beginning his career in Finland, Bl*ingame played with Maccabi Rishon LeZion in the Israeli League. He also played in the Swedish Obol Basketball League, with the Solna Vikings. Prior to his career with Solna, he played with ENAD in the Cypriot League and AEK Athens BC in the Greek League. For the 2009–10 season, he was the starting point guard for BC Odessa in Ukraine. In the 2010–11 season Bl*ingame was a key player for Energa Czarni Słupsk, the leader of the Polish Basket League. In the winter season Energa Czarni Słupsk finished with a win–loss record of 10–1, and Bl*ingame averaged 12.4 points per game and 6.2 *ists per game. In August 2011 he signed with *eco Prokom Gdynia. After a season and a half in Poland, Bl*ingame moved to Croatia, signing for Cibona Zagreb. He helped them win the ABA League *le in the 2013–14 season. In December 2014 he terminated his contract with Cibona.

On December 7, 2014 he signed with Polish club Energa Czarni Słupsk. On January 9, 2017, he parted ways with Czarni Słupsk. On January 24, 2017, he returned to the Greek Basket League and signed with Promitheas Patras in order to replace the injured Keydren Clark, who was released.

References

External links

• realGM profile
• Polish League profile (Polish)
• Finnish League profile