Eugene "Pooh" Jeter III (/ˈdʒɛtər/; born December 2, 1983) is an American-born naturalized Ukrainian professional basketball player for the NBA G League Ignite of the NBA G League. A 5:ft 11:in (1.80:m) tall point guard, he is a naturalized player for the Ukraine national basketball team with his naturalized name being Yudzhin Dzheter (Ukrainian: Юджін Джетер).

Contents

• 1 Professional career
• 2 International career
• 3 Personal life
• 4 Career statistics
  • 4.1 NBA
    • 4.1.1 Regular season
  • 4.2 EuroLeague
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Professional career

Jeter went undrafted at the 2006 NBA draft. He played his first professional season with the Colorado 14ers of the NBA D-League.

In August 2007, Jeter moved to Europe and signed a one-year deal with BC Kyiv of Ukraine.

In August 2008, Jeter moved to Spain and signed a one-year deal with ViveMenorca of the Liga ACB.

In September 2009, Jeter signed with Unicaja Málaga. In November 2009, he left Unicaja and signed with Hapoel Jerusalem of Israel for the remainder of the season.

On July 21, 2010, Jeter signed with the Sacramento Kings.

In August 2011, Jeter returned to Spain and signed with Joventut Badalona for the 2011–12 season.

In September 2012, Jeter signed with Shandong Lions of the Chinese Basketball *ociation. In July 2014, he extended his contract with Shandong for two more years.

On March 21, 2015, Jeter signed with Limoges CSP of France for the rest of the 2014–15 LNB Pro A season.

On July 14, 2015, Jeter re-signed with the Shandong Lions for the 2015–16 season.

In October 2016, Jeter signed with Tianjin Gold Lions for the 2016–17 CBA season. On April 11, 2017, he signed with Turkish club Beşiktaş for the rest of the 2016–17 Basketbol Süper Ligi season. However he did not play for them because Beşiktaş was banned by FIBA from registering new players and the deal could not be completed.

On January 1, 2021, Jeter signed with BC Dnipro of the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague.

On October 28, 2021, Jeter signed with the NBA G League Ignite.

International career

In 2013, Jeter helped the senior Ukrainian national basketball team qualify for the FIBA World Cup for the first time since the Soviet Union broke apart, by being the team's leader in *ists during the 2013 EuroBasket tournament, with an average of 4.1 *ists per game.

Personal life

Jeter is the younger brother of sprinter Carmelita Jeter, a two-time IAAF World Athletics Final gold medalist.

Career statistics

NBA

Regular season

EuroLeague

References

External links

• Liga ACB profile
• CBA stats
• eurobasket.com profile
• EuroLeague profile