Rasheed Wallace

Rasheed Wallace (born the September 17th 1974) is a player of American Basket-ball currently playing in NBA for the Detroit Pistons. It measures 2 meters 11 and weighs 104,3 kilos. Wallace played Trail Blazers of Portland cement during 8 years.

Biography

Rasheed is selected in 4th position by the Washington Bullets (famous since Washington Wizards) at the time of the draft 1995. He plays with Bullets only one season with on average 10 points and almost 5 rebounds.

He plays then as from season 96-97 with Portland where he affirms himself with approximately 16,7 points of average on the whole of his 8 seasons.

He is then sent following an exchange to the Atlanta Hawks, where he forwards only the time of a match to be finally exchanged with the Pistons in 2004. Its contribution will make it possible the Pistons to gain the title this year. The following year the team loses vis-a-vis the Spurs de San Antonio at the time of the finale. At the time of season 2005-2006 the Pistons carry out a superb season, and Rasheed Wallace plays a great part there, it turns at 15,5 points by matches and 6,2 rebounds.

It is characterized by its very long supporting arms counter them, its shooting at 3 points and two points whereas it is a strong winger (thus logically little laid out with the shootings at 3 points), its good defense, its character impetuous which was worth to him a vendetta of David Stern.

On Monday, March 26, 2007, following a revival missed by the Nuggets of Denver, Rasheed Wallace marked of 3/4 of the ground whereas the buzzer resounded and meant the end of the match! Rasheed thus brought the prolongation for its team vis-a-vis the Nuggets of Denver, match finally gained by the Pistons of Strait 113 to 109. This shot of an incredible distance is without any doubt one of most extraordinary of the history of NBA, for its distance but especially for its timing, because the ball left the hands of Wallace some hundredths of second before the buzzer. The video is displayable here.

Prize list

Triple AlStar in 2000,2001 and 2006
Champion NBA in 2004

External bonds

Card nba.com
www.rasheedwallace.com its official site

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