Richard Melzer’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 8 December 1979, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Age: 40 years

Richard Melzer (born December 8, 1979) is an American professional basketball player who has played in the Australian National Basketball League, the German Bundesliga, NBA D-League, Continental Basketball Association, as well as stints in France and Israel. He primarily plays power forward.

Melzer was named NCAA Division III Player of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and the D-III News as a senior at Wisconsin–River Falls. He earned First Team All-America honours from the NABC his junior and senior seasons. He was named All-WIAC his last three seasons and was named league MVP his final two years and finished his career as the school’s second all-time leading scorer with 2, 363 points, the third all-time leading rebounder with 821 boards, and the all-time leading shot-blocker with 186 rejections.

Melzer has spent time trying out with the NBA’s Washington Wizards, Chicago Bulls and the Orlando Magic in the last two years. He also earned a spot on the San Antonio Spurs but was not named to the team’s final roster. He led the Sioux Falls Skyforce to the Continental Basketball Association Championship in 2005. He also won a title with San Carlos in the Dominican Republic League and was voted MVP of the National Finals.

Melzer spent the 2005-06 season with the New Zealand Breakers of the NBL, earning NBL Player of the Week in Week 20.

On July 14, 2006, Melzler signed a two-year contract with the San Antonio Spurs. He appeared in four preseason games, averaging 2.8 points in 7.8 minutes. He was released by the Spurs on October 20, 2006.

Melzer signed a month contract with ASVEL Villeurbanne of France, before moving to play in Hapoel Gilboa/Afula of Israel in January, 2007.

Melzer is a 1999 graduate of River Falls High School in Wisconsin. His brother Michael Grinnell is also a basketball prospect. Grinnell is playing for Carleton College in Minnesota since the Fall of 2008.

Melzer also played for Artland Dragons in the German Bundesliga.

In July, 2009, it was announced that Melzer would return to Australia, to play for the Cairns Taipans. He again won a Player of the Week award, but his form declined during the year and he returned to the United States to play for Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the NBA Development League.

Prior to the 2010–11 season Melzer returned to Israel, and signed with Hapoel Holon, which is coached by Dani Franco (who coach him when he played for Hapoel Gilboa/Afula).

In June 2011, he signed a contract with the New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig in the German Bundesliga.

Rich is now coaching youth basketball, as well as making guest appearances on local sports television and radio shows.

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