| Intro | American basketball player | ||
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Athlete Basketball player |
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| From | United States of America | ||
| Type | Sports | ||
| Gender | male | ||
| Birth | 3 July 1978, Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin, U.S.A. | ||
| Age: | 42 years | ||
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Alex Jerome Scales (born July 3, 1978) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Tadamon Zouk of the Lebanese Basketball League.
Biography
Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Scales attended Racine Lutheran High School.
He played at the collegiate level at the University of Oregon.
Scales has most recently played with Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K. and Oyak Renault of the Turkish Basketball League, as well as BC Kyiv of the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague and VTB United League. Previously, he was a member of the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association in 2005. That year, he was also a member of USA Basketball. Playing one game for the Spurs, he was waived on November 28 but was acquired by the NBA Development League team Austin Toros on December 21, 2005.
He has also been a member of the Seoul Samsung Thunders of the Korean Basketball League, CSK VVS Samara of the Russian Basketball Super League, Aris B.C. of HEBA A1, Real Madrid Baloncesto of the Liga ACB and Euroleague Basketball, and the Jiangsu Dragons and Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association. He was a FIBA EuroCup All-Star during his time with BC Kyiv.
Scales competes for Team 23 in The Basketball Tournament. He was a guard on the 2015 team who made it to the $1 million championship game, falling 67-65 to Overseas Elite.