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Background

CAREER:
Signed by the Lakers as a free agent July 30, 2007.

2006-2007 (SENIOR):
In 32 games (26 starts), averaged 5.8 points, 6.1 rebounds and 0.8 blocks in 22.3 minutes … Scored a career-high 22 points 12/7 vs. Southeast Missouri … Pulled down a career-high 14 rebounds 12/9 vs. Eastern Illinois.

2005-2006 (JUNIOR):
In 24 games (22 starts), averaged 6.0 points and 4.3 rebounds per game … Finished the season with 26 blocks, 25 assists and 11 steals while shooting 49.5 percent from the field … Scored a season-high 13 points twice … Grabbed a season-high eight rebounds twice.

2004-2005 (SOPHOMORE):
Played in five games for the University of Oklahoma before transferring to Tennessee State.

2003-2004 (FRESHMAN):
In 30 games (six starts), averaged 3.2 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.2 blocked shots in 13.7 minutes … Ranked third on the team with a 48.0 percent field goal percentage … 39 of his 81 rebounds (48 percent) were offensive … Scored a season-high nine points vs. Prairie View A&M and again in his first career start vs. Texas Tech while also pulling down a season-high eight rebounds.

2002-2003:
Played in season’s first six games before missing the rest of the season due to injury (granted a medical redshirt) … Averaged 1.3 points and 1.5 rebounds in 9.2 minutes.


Personal

  • Earned a degree from Tennessee State in Mass Communications
  • Played four years and earned three letters at Baldwin High School in Milledgeville, Georgia
  • Averaged 16.0 points, 10.0 rebounds and 7.0 blocks as a senior
  • Selected Oklahoma after being recruited by Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana and Mississippi State bout with cancer in a little more than a year
  • Played for Bridgeton (Maine) Academy in 2001-02, averaging 16.0 points, 12.0 rebounds and 5.0 blocks.


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