Roger Mason, Jr.

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Roger Philip Mason, Jr. (born September 10, 1980 in Washington, D.C.) is an American professional basketball player.

He started his high school career at Sidwell Friends School where he was named MVP at the school as a freshman. He then transferred to Our Lady of Good Counsel High School for his sophmore, junior, and senior years. Mason led Good Counsel to their best basketball year ever, with 29 wins and a number 19 final ranking on the USA Today Super 25 list. At Good Counsel he scored a total of 1,426 points. He was named 1999 All-Metropolitan first-team by the Washington Post, All-Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (WCAC), and also named all-county by the Montgomery Journal newspaper. He was also named 1999 Powerade "Mr. Basketball," awarded to the best player in the Washington, D.C. area. ^[1]

Mason played collegiately at the University of Virginia. In 2001, he was named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Third Team. Mason set a free throw percentage record in UVA history with 86.0 percent made and is currently third on the ACC's all-time list for free throw percentage.^[1]

Mason was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the 2002 NBA Draft after his junior year with the 31st overall pick. He played for the Bulls from the 2002-03 NBA season until the 2003-04 season (3 games only) and was traded to the Toronto Raptors who released him a few months later.

He went to play in Europe and was signed by the Olympiacos team from Greece in the 2004-2005 season, in the 2005-2006 season he went to play in Israel and was signed by Hapoel Jerusalem.

In July 2006 he signed with the Japanese OSG Phoenix team, but after a few days from signing he was signed by the Washington Wizards on a trail contract. ^[2]

[edit] Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Roger Mason Jr. at USA Basketball
^ Wizards sign Mason - accessed 30 Sep 2006

[edit] External links

Player file @ NBA.com
NBA stats @ databaseBasketball.com
USA Basketball Bio @ USABasketball.com

2002 NBA Draft
First Round Yao Ming \| Jay Williams \| Mike Dunleavy, Jr. \| Drew Gooden \| Nikoloz Tskitishvili \| Dajuan Wagner \| Maybyner "Nene" Hilario \| Chris Wilcox \| Amare Stoudemire \| Caron Butler \| Jared Jeffries \| Melvin Ely \| Marcus Haislip \| Fred Jones \| Bostjan Nachbar \| Jiri Welsch \| Juan Dixon \| Curtis Borchardt \| Ryan Humphrey \| Kareem Rush \| Qyntel Woods \| Casey Jacobsen \| Tayshaun Prince \| Nenad Krstić \| Frank Williams \| John Salmons \| Chris Jefferies \| Dan Dickau
Second Round Steve Logan \| Roger Mason, Jr. \| Robert Archibald \| Vincent Yarbrough \| Dan Gadzuric \| Carlos Boozer \| Milos Vujanić \| David Andersen \| Tito Maddox \| Rod Grizzard \| Juan Carlos Navarro \| Mario Kasun \| Ronald Murray \| Jason Jennings \| Lonny Baxter \| Sam Clancy \| Matt Barnes \| Jamal Sampson \| Chris Owens \| Peter Fehse \| Darius Songaila \| Federico Kammerichs \| Marcus Taylor \| Rasual Butler \| Tamar Slay \| Mladen Sekularac \| Luis Scola \| Randy Holcomb \| Corsley Edwards