Looking to play anywhere!
by Andre Oupoh
(New York, New York)
Position: Point Guard; Shooting Guard
Height: 6’ 5”
Weight: 225lbs / 102kg
Date of Birth: May 13, 1984
Country of Origin: Native of the Ivory Coast
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Biography:
As a native of the Ivory Coast, Andre fluent in both English and French has had one big dream since he was a kid. That dream was to become a professional basketball player. At 6’5’’ Andre is a big guard with a strong team play attitude. With natural ability to get to the rack, great court vision, and a strong on the ball defender, Andre is an electrifying physical player who can finish with contact. Head Coach of the Texas Legends, Nancy Lieberman was quoted saying "I want to recommend Andre Oupoh for a position on a professional basketball team. He is a gifted lead guard with very good leadership skills. He is physically strong and is able to use that strength to get to the basket and finish. He has good court vision and is able to make his teammates better around him. Andre is a very good shooter from NBA 3-point range. He can defend quicker point guards and has a good understanding of team defense. Andre has the tools to be an effective guard at the professional level.
Stats:
Texas State
Season School Points G FG% 3P% FT% TRB Assist STL
2004-2005 Texas
State 109 23 .333 .327 .710 44 12 6
Career 109 23 .333 .327 .710 44 12 6
Basketball Career:
• 2001-2002 DE Senior All Star Game MVP
• Parade Magazine All-American 3rd team
• Jordan Classic participant
• Played for his country U19 team in the African Cup, won the Bronze medal.
• Nike Camp Invitational Top 100
• Newark, DE/John Dickerson: average 24 ppg, 9 rpg
• 1st Team All Conference
• Newcomer of the year Region 6
• 2nd Team All American
• Team Captain
• Team MVP
• Southland Conference pre-season Newcomer of the Year
• 2006-2008: Abilene Christian (NCAA2): averaging 15 ppg, 7 rpg, 5 as
• Team MVP
• Team Captain* Team Leadership Award*Div 2 All American
• 2008-09:in Nov.'09 joined Al Jaysh Army SC (Qatar-D1, starting five) for Aleppo Tournament in Syria
• 2009: Attended 6 NBA-DL Tryouts made the 180 draft pool(drafted 4th round Maine Red Claws)left team because of contract disagreement.
• 2009/2011: BC STEAUA TURABO BUCURESTI (Romania Div-A) 16 pts 5asts 4rbs
• 2010: Recently selected out of the pool of 80 players for the USA SELECT TEAM (summer traveling team)
• 2010: NBA workouts- CAVS, BUCKS & BULLS for summer league & preseason invite
• 2010 : try out (invite only workout) Shandong Gold Basketball club 6 games avg 15pts ast 5rbs played against former and current NBA, d-league players notables: Frank Williams, Curtis Stinson, Fred Jones, “Tractor” Taylor, Robert Hite,“Speedy” Claxton.
• 2010-training camp with the Texas Legends D-league
• 2011-just been added to the d-league available players pool by Chris Alpert (NBA-NDBL president)
• 2011-June-workout for the New York Knicks & New Jersey Nets
References:
John Starks-13 yr NBA with New York Knicks
John Jennings-25 yrs NBA front office with Boston Celtics,
Maine Red Claw GM. Chris Alpert - NBDL President
