Friday, September 9, 2011

Bo McCalebb

Bo McCalebb
Lester "Bo" McCalebb (Macedonian: Лестер "Бо" МекКејлеб (born May 4, 1985) is a Macedonian professional basketball player born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is currently under contract with Montepaschi Siena and currently plays for Macedonia's national basketball team in Eurobasket 2011 where he is the team's key player.
Position Point guard , Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m),Weight 180 lb (82 kg)
McCalebb attended O. Perry Walker High School in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1] He played college basketball for the New Orleans Privateers for five years.
He has spent 2008–09 season in Turkey where he had a lot of success in Mersin BB, averaging 17.4 points and 4.6 assists per game. He was also the Turkish League leader in steals with 2.7 per game.

On October 16, 2009, McCalebb signed with the Euroleague club Partizan Belgrade a week after the team released former point guard Milt Palacio for failure to join the team on time. He had an amazing season in Partizan winning the Serbian national championship, Liga ABA (Adriatic League), the Serbian national cup and lead them to the Euroleague Final Four and earning an All-Euroleague Second Team selection.
In June 2010 he signed a three-year deal with Montepaschi Siena.

In his first season in Italy he had even more success, again leading his team to the Euroleague Final Four, and winning the Italian league, Italian Basketball Cup and Italian Basketball Supercup. Due to his consistently strong performances, McCalebb is widely regarded as one of the elite point guards in european basketball.
McCalebb decided to play for the Macedonian national basketball team and he received a Macedonian passport. He is one of the key players on the national team with his teammates Pero Antić and Todor Gecevski. The "Macedonian MVP", as the Macedonians call him, was the second leading scorer for the qualifying for the Euro Basket 2011, with a strong showing against Great Britain and NBA star Luol Deng.On September 1st, Macedonia beat Croatia with McCalebb scoring 19 points. He had another strong showing versus Greece in the third game in group play, scoring game-high 27 points and leading the team to a 72-58 win. McCaleeb scored 18 points against Finland in a 72-70 win. Then on September 8-th (Macedonia's independence day)he led the team with 27 points in their 65-63 win over Georgia and placed Macedonia in the quarter-finals.

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