Oliver Lafayette’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American basketball player
Is Athlete 
Basketball player 
From United States of America 
Type Sports 
Gender male
Birth 6 May 1984, Baton Rouge
Age: 36 years

Oliver Lafayette (born May 6, 1984) is an American professional basketball player who plays for Unicaja of the Liga ACB. Standing at 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), he plays at the point guard and shooting guard positions.

High school and college career

Lafayette attended Capitol High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and led the basketball team to a 29–3 record his senior year. Lafayette attended first Blinn College and Brown Mackie College before transferring to the University of Houston. At Houston during his junior year, Lafayette started 30 of 31 games and earned 2nd team all Conference USA while finishing third in scoring in C-USA with a 15.7 points per game average. During his senior year in 2006–07, Lafayette averaged 14.3 points, 5.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game. He also majored in sociology.

Professional career

Lafayette played with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants during the 2009–10 season in the NBA Development League. With the Mad Ants, the guard started 42 of 48 games and averaged 17.1 points, 6.5 assists and 1.8 steals in 35.3 minutes per game. On April 14, 2010, Lafayette signed with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association and appeared in one game with the team in which he scored 7 points. According to research by STATS LLC, those 7 points are an NBA record for most points scored in a career of exactly one game played. Upon playing with the Celtics, Lafayette became the 23rd former Houston Cougar to play in the NBA.

On October 13, 2010, Lafayette signed with Partizan Belgrade in Serbia, but the contract was terminated in November.

In December 2010, Lafayette practiced with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, his former team. He was going to sign with the Mad Ants once he was officially released from Partizan Belgrade. After averaging 16.4 points per game with the Mad Ants, he signed a four-month contract with the Turkish team Beşiktaş. But due to health problems, his contract was dropped.

In February 2011, Lafayette signed with Maccabi Ashdod in Israel. On October 5, 2011 he signed a one-year contract with Asseco Prokom Gdynia in Poland.

In January 2012, Lafayette signed with Anadolu Efes Istanbul for the remainder of the 2011–12 season. Later that year, he joined Žalgiris Kaunas. He signed with Valencia Basket in the offseason in 2013.

On June 22, 2014, he signed a two-year deal with Olympiacos Piraeus. On June 29, 2015, he parted ways with Olympiacos.

On July 9, 2015, he signed with the Italian club Emporio Armani Milano.

On July 18, 2016, Lafayette signed with Spanish team Unicaja.

International career

The Croatian Basketball Federation asked for permission to give Oliver Lafayette a Croatian citizenship for sports interest, which the Croatian Olympic Committee approved. Lafayette was awarded with a Croatian passport and represented Croatia at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  PIR  Performance Index Rating
 Bold  Career high

Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season. He also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.

NBA

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2009–10 Boston 1 0 22.0 .500 .500 .000 4.0 2.0 .0 .0 7.0
Career 1 0 22.0 .500 .500 .000 4.0 2.0 .0 .0 7.0

Euroleague

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2010–11 Partizan Belgrade 6 3 25.8 .221 .154 .654 3.7 3.3 1.3 .0 8.5 6.3
2011–12 Asseco Prokom 10 0 24.5 .411 .381 .708 2.5 3.3 1.4 .0 10.7 11.0
2011–12 Anadolu Efes 6 2 23.0 .419 .313 .917 3.2 2.8 1.5 .0 8.7 11.7
2012–13 Zalgiris 23 11 21.2 .361 .323 .900 2.1 2.8 .9 .0 7.9 7.3
2014–15 Olympiacos 29 1 18.3 .386 .404 .606 2.1 2.6 .5 .0 6.8 6.9
Career 74 17 21.1 .364 .346 .736 2.4 2.8 .9 .0 7.9 8.0

Domestic leagues

Season Team League GP MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2007-08 Correcaminos UAT Victoria Mexico LNPB 36 33.2 .458 .337 .745 4.8 5.1 2.3 .2 16.1
2008-09 8 39.1 .622 .362 .738 6.0 6.3 3.3 .0 23.3
Erie Bayhawks D-League 37 31.4 .437 .320 .774 4.2 3.9 1.7 .2 13.6
2009-10 Fort Wayne Mad Ants 48 35.3 .471 .381 .798 4.6 6.5 1.8 .1 17.1
2010-11 Partizan NiS Serbian KLS 6 23.3 .433 .278 .769 4.0 4.2 2.2 .0 10.2
Fort Wayne Mad Ants D-League 21 33.6 .421 .302 .857 4.2 3.6 2.0 .1 16.4
Maccabi Ashdod B.C. Ligat HaAl 11 22.4 .407 .447 .630 2.1 2.9 1.5 .0 10.5
2011-12 Asseco Prokom Gdynia VTB United League 10 22.6 .370 .161 .652 2.8 3.3 1.0 .0 7.0
Anadolu Efes S.K. TBL 24 21.5 .462 .250 .938 2.5 2.5 1.0 .0 7.5
2012-13 BC Žalgiris Lithuania LKL 16 17.0 .429 .479 .730 2.1 3.2 .9 .1 7.9
VTB United League 26 22.8 .424 .311 .814 2.5 3.5 1.3 .0 8.3
2013-14 Valencia BC Liga ACB 40 21.6 .403 .325 .812 2.1 4.5 1.1 .0 7.9
2014-15 Olympiacos B.C. Greek A1 31 17.6 .508 .357 .760 1.6 2.8 .8 .0 6.5
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