Bracey Wright

Wright with Joventut Badalona.
CAI Zaragoza
Point guard Shooting guard
Personal information
Born	(1984-07-01) July 1, 1984 (age 27) The Colony, Texas
Nationality	American
High school	The Colony High School
Listed height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight	210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
College	Indiana
NBA Draft	2005 / 2nd round, 47th overall
Selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves
Pro career	2005–present
League	ACB
Career history
Minnesota Timberwolves (2005–07) Florida Flame (2005–06) Aris BC (2007-08) Joventut Badalona (2008-09) Base Oostende (2009-10) Paris-Levallois (2010-11) KK Cedevita (2011) CAI Zaragoza (2011-present)

Bracey Wright (born July 1, 1984, The Colony, Texas) is an American professional basketball player.

Amateur career[link]

Wright attended Arbor Creek Middle School in Carrollton, TX and The Colony High School in The Colony, Texas. He was a former high school teammate of New Jersey Nets guard Deron Williams. After being highly recruited out of high school, Wright played college basketball for the Indiana University Hoosiers from 2002–2004.

He scored 1,498 career points at Indiana and made 186 career three-pointers. Wright was named to the First Team All-Big Ten in 2004. As a junior, Wright led the Big Ten in scoring (18.3 points per game), while posting 25 or more points on seven occasions.^[1]

Pro career[link]

Wright left Indiana for the NBA after three seasons. He was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2005 NBA Draft. The Timberwolves assigned him to the Florida Flame of the D-League for the 2005-06 season. He spent one more year in Minnesota.

On July 31, 2007, he signed with the Greek club Aris BC. In 2010, Wright signed a deal with Belgian Base Oostende for the remainder of the season. He was signed in the offseason by Paris-Levallois in the French Pro A League and found a role as the starting shooting guard and back up point guard. In January 2011 he signed with KK Cedevita in Croatia.^[2] He was voted Second Team All-Eurocup and finished in 3rd place at the 2010-2011 Eurocup Final 4 Championship with his team KK Cedevita.^[3] Wright was also the Qaterfinals Game 2 MVP for the 2010-2011 Eurocup Finals.^[4] In July 2011 he signed with CAI Zaragoza in Spain for two seasons.^[5]

International career[link]

Wright was a member of the gold-medal winning USA World Championship for Young Men Qualifying Team at the 2004 FIBA Americas World Championships.

Personal life[link]

Wright and his wife, Missy, reside in Honolulu, Hawaii with their son, Bracey Jr. Wright is the son of Texas basketball great Carl Wright. Wright has a great appreciation for world football and is an avid member of the Juventus fan club.

References[link]

External links[link]

• NBA.com Profile
• Bracey Wright at Basketball-Reference.com
• Euroleague.net Profile
• ACB.com PProfile
• Basketpedya.com Profile

Aaron Miles
Los Angeles Dodgers
Second Baseman
Born: (1976-12-15) December 15, 1976 (age 35) Pittsburg, California
Bats: Switch	Throws: Right
MLB debut
September 11, 2003 for the Chicago White Sox
Career statistics (through 2011 season)
Batting average	.281
Home runs	19
Runs batted in	229
Teams
Chicago White Sox (2003) Colorado Rockies (2004-2005) St. Louis Cardinals (2006-2008) Chicago Cubs (2009) St. Louis Cardinals (2010) Los Angeles Dodgers (2011)
Career highlights and awards
World Series champion (2006)

Aaron Wade Miles (born December 15, 1976, in Pittsburg, California)^[1] is a Major League Baseball infielder who is currently with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Pro career[link]

Houston Astros[link]

Miles was originally drafted by the Houston Astros in the 19th round of the 1995 amateur draft. He played in the Astros minor league system through 2000, making it as high as Class-A+ with the Kissimmee Cobras in 2000, where he hit .292 in 75 games. He was a member of the Midwest League All-Star team in 1999.

Chicago White Sox[link]

He was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the minor league portion of the Rule V Draft in 2000. He played with the Double-A Birmingham Barons in 2001-2002. In 2002 he was the MVP of the Double-A Southern League while hitting .322 for the Barons. He was promoted to Triple-A with the Charlotte Knights in 2003 and was the International League Rookie of the Year. He made his Major League debut on September 11, 2003 against the Minnesota Twins as a pinch hitter and recorded his first hit on September 18, also against Minnesota. In 8 games with the White Sox, hit had four hits (3 doubles) in 12 at-bats.

Colorado Rockies[link]

Miles was traded to the Colorado Rockies on December 2, 2003 for Juan Uribe. He appeared in 134 games with the Rockies and finished fourth in the voting for the 2004 National League Rookie of the Year, while hitting .293 in 134 games.

St. Louis Cardinals[link]

Miles was traded by the Rockies to the St. Louis Cardinals on December 7, 2005 (with Larry Bigbie) for Ray King.

He won a World Series with the Cardinals in 2006.

On August 4, Aaron threw a perfect 8th inning in a 12-1 loss to the Washington Nationals. Of Miles' nine pitches, six were for strikes. It was the first time he had pitched since he was 14 years old. Miles pitched during the game when Cardinals' manager Tony La Russa asked his pitching coach, Dave Duncan, "Who's our shortest reliever?" The tongue-in-cheek answer was Miles, at 5' 8". His pitching career took a turn for the worse later that season. On September 20, he pitched the 9th inning against the Houston Astros and was touched for 3 hits, including a 2-run home run by J. R. Towles. It was Towles' first career major league home run. On June 13, 2008, Miles would make his third pitching appearance, this time against the Philadelphia Phillies. With the Phillies leading 20-2, Miles came in to finish off the game with a perfect 9th inning while striking out Jimmy Rollins.

On August 31, a foul ball hit by Miles struck teammate Juan Encarnación in the face while he was in the on-deck circle, and effectively ended Encarnación's career. Encarnación suffered multiple fractures to his left eye socket and an injury to his left eye and missed the remainder of the 2007 season. The injury was regarded by the Cardinals' head team physician, Dr. George Paletta, to be the worst injury he'd ever seen to the face on a baseball player. Paletta said the eye socket was essentially crushed on impact, comparing the injured area to the disintegration of an egg shell or ice cream cone, and that the optic nerve had sustained severe trauma. Paletta also said the eyeball had not been ruptured.^{[citation needed]}

Miles re-signed with the Cardinals for a one-year deal, January 4, 2008, after a non-tender and short free-agency status in December 2007.^[2]

On July 20, 2008, Miles got his first walk-off hit, a 1-out grand slam to beat the San Diego Padres, 9-5.

Chicago Cubs[link]

On December 31, 2008, Miles signed a two-year deal with the Chicago Cubs.^[3] He was the primary backup infielder to second baseman Mike Fontenot, shortstop Ryan Theriot and third baseman Aramis Ramirez, after losing the starting job at second to Fontenot during Spring Training.

On April 3, 2009, Miles was the first ever batter at the new Yankee Stadium. He got a base hit.

Oakland/Cincinnati/St. Louis[link]

On December 3, 2009, Miles was traded along with Jake Fox to the Oakland Athletics for Jeff Gray and 2 minor league prospects. On February 1, 2010, he was again traded along with a player to be named later to the Cincinnati Reds for Willy Taveras and Adam Rosales. He was released on April 14, after being designated for assignment at the end of Spring Training.

On April 27, 2010, Miles signed a minor league deal to return to the Cardinals.^[4] After a brief stop in AAA, he rejoined the major league roster.

Los Angeles Dodgers[link]

Aaron Miles with the Dodgers, April 2011

On February 7, 2011, Miles signed a minor league deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers with an invitation to Spring Training. He made the opening day roster. He had his first home run as a Dodger and first in over 530 at-bats [over two years] vs Minnesota Twins starter Brian Duensing at Target Field on June 28, 2011. Miles played in 136 games with the Dodgers, the most of his career, primarily due to injuries to Juan Uribe and Casey Blake. He hit .275 with 17 doubles. After originally not signing with any teams for 2012, he re-signed with the Dodgers on a minor league contract on May 11.

Personal life[link]

He is a graduate of Antioch High School, located in Antioch, California. He lives in nearby Brentwood with his wife (Courtney), daughter (Nicole Dakota) and son (Jackson) during the offseason.

In spring training of 2000, several of his teammates from the Houston Astros organization were in their hotel when two gunmen burst into their room. Miles was in the next room and the gunmen took him hostage. The police arrived before the gunmen were able to take him to their getaway car, but one gunman fled the scene. The other forced Miles back into his room where he ended up wrestling the gunman to the ground. The police entered the room and shot the gunman while Miles held him to the floor. The gunman survived his wounds, and his accomplice was later captured.^[5]

In Popular Culture[link]

Discussed by comedian Kevin Meaney and a female audience member (claiming to be Miles' "girlfriend") during a live-recorded 2004 performance of Meaney's in Battle Creek, Michigan (album entitled "That's Not Right!", track "Catchers & Pitchers").

References[link]

External links[link]

Baseball portal

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
• Miles player profile page at Scout.com

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Medal record
Men's Basketball
Competitor for  Croatia
Mediterranean Games
Gold	2009 Pescara	Team Competition

Damjan Rudež (born June 17, 1986) ^[1] is a Croatian professional basketball player currently playing for Cibona Zagreb. He is 6'10" in height. Rudez entered the 2008 NBA Draft but went un-drafted.

Croatian national basketball team[link]

On August 3, 2008, he was called into the Croation national basketball team to compete in the 2008 Olympic Basketball Tournament after Damir Markota withdrew due to injury.^[2]

In 2009, he won the gold medal at the XVI Mediterranean Games, held in Pescara, Italy.

References[link]

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