Lionel Chalmers

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Lionel Chalmers, Jr. (born November 10, 1980 in Albany, New York) is an American basketball player. He last played for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2005-06 preseason, but was released into free agency before the regular season commenced. Currently he plays for Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari in Italy.

Chalmers played his first three years of high school basketball at Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons in Schenectady, New York. He then transferred to Albany High School for his senior year.

Chalmers was drafted by the Los Angeles Clippers in the second round of the 2004 NBA Draft out of Xavier University, where he played for four years as an undergraduate and later a graduate student. He eventually lead his Xavier team during his senior season to the elite eight in the NCAA Tournament. He was traded to the Timberwolves on August 20th, 2005 with Marko Jaric for Sam Cassell.

He played for the Phoenix Suns summer league team during the summer of 2006 ^[1] but was not retained by the Suns and is now playing for Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari in the Italian second division.

He played in Greece with AEK Athens BC from November 2005 until February 2006 when he joined TAU Ceramica in Spain ^[2]. Lionel was waived by the Atlanta Hawks in October 2006, prior to joining his current italian team.

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Player profile @ aek.com
Euroleague profile @ euroleague.net
Player profile @ legaduebasket.it

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2004 NBA Draft
First Round Dwight Howard \| Emeka Okafor \| Ben Gordon \| Shaun Livingston \| Devin Harris \| Josh Childress \| Luol Deng \| Rafael Araújo \| Andre Iguodala \| Luke Jackson \| Andris Biedriņš \| Robert Swift \| Sebastian Telfair \| Kris Humphries \| Al Jefferson \| Kirk Snyder \| Josh Smith \| J.R. Smith \| Dorell Wright \| Jameer Nelson \| Pavel Podkolzin \| Viktor Khryapa \| Sergei Monia \| Delonte West \| Tony Allen \| Kevin Martin \| Sasha Vujačić \| Beno Udrih \| David Harrison
Second Round Anderson Varejão \| Jackson Vroman \| Peter John Ramos \| Lionel Chalmers \| Donta Smith \| Andre Emmett \| Antonio Burks \| Royal Ivey \| Chris Duhon \| Albert Miralles \| Justin Reed \| David Young \| Viktor Sanikidze \| Trevor Ariza \| Tim Pickett \| Bernard Robinson \| Ha Seung-Jin \| Pape Sow \| Ricky Minard \| Sergei Lishouk \| Vassilis Spanoulis \| Christian Drejer \| Romain Sato \| Matt Freije \| Rickey Paulding \| Luis Flores \| Marcus Douthit \| Sergei Karaulov \| Blake Stepp \| Rashad Wright