League NBL Name Anthony Fisher Pro career 2014 Listed weight 78 kg (172 lb) Position Point guard | Listed height 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) Weight 78 kg Nationality Australian Role Basketball Player | |
Born 24 January 1994 (age 30)
Ballarat, Victoria ( 1994-01-24 ) High school Ballarat (Ballarat, Victoria) 2011–2015 Ballarat Miners (SEABL) | ||
Anthony Fisher (born 24 January 1994) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Cairns Marlins of the Queensland Basketball League (QBL). He represented Victoria at the Under 18 and Under 20 National Championships, and played for the Australian Emus at the 2013 FIBA Under-19 World Championship in Prague. He previously spent time as a development player with the Perth Wildcats and Cairns Taipans, and in 2016, he helped the Cairns Marlins win the QBL Championship.
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Early life and career
Born and raised in Ballarat, Fisher is a product of Ballarat's junior basketball club and representative program, having started playing locally as a nine-year-old. Fisher's decorated junior basketball career started in Ballarat's domestic competitions and saw him rise through the ranks of the Ballarat Representative Program before being joining the senior Miners team in 2011 at the age of just 17 years. Playing in the South East Australian Basketball League, he averaged 0.4 points, 0.6 rebounds and 0.2 assists in 12 games and subsequently won the 2011 Victorian Country Athlete of the Year award.
On 1 December 2011, Fisher rejected an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship to stay in Ballarat and complete his Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) at Ballarat High School.
In April 2012, Fisher represented Australia for the first time at the 2012 Albert Schweitzer Tournament where the Emus finished ninth. He went on to average 1.9 points and 1.0 rebounds in 21 games for the Miners during the 2012 SEABL season. He then represented the Emus again at the FIBA Oceania U18 Championship against New Zealand in September 2012.
Fisher again represented the Emus at the FIBA U19 World Championship in July 2013, forcing him to miss almost a third of the Miners' games due to competition and training camps. Despite the regular absences, Fisher averaged 8.1 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 16 games.
In September 2013, Fisher joined the Perth Wildcats to train with them during their preseason in the hopes of gaining a development player spot. On 8 September, he represented the Wildcats in the team's preseason exhibition game against the SBL All-Stars. Despite impressing head coach Trevor Gleeson, Fisher was not offered a spot on the roster and returned to Ballarat with a program put in place by the Wildcats to help him get stronger. On 25 November 2013, he re-signed with the Miners for the 2014 SEABL season.
Professional career
On 15 January 2014, Fisher re-joined the Perth Wildcats for a two-week training stint. He went on to suit up for the Wildcats and make his NBL debut on 17 January as he played the final 50 seconds of the Wildcats' 97–72 win over the New Zealand Breakers.
Following his two-week training stint, Fisher returned to Ballarat for the commencement of the Miners' preseason training. He went on to have a break-out season for the Miners in 2014 as he averaged 14.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists in 26 games.
On 7 August 2014, Fisher signed with the Perth Wildcats as a full-time development player for the 2014–15 NBL season. In his first full season for the Wildcats, he appeared in eight games and recorded a total of two assists and one steal in 9:56 minutes of game time. He was released by the Wildcats on 7 March 2015 following the club's lacklustre season and a subsequent overhaul of personnel, and returned to the Ballarat Miners four days later in preparation for the 2015 SEABL season. In 25 games for the Miners in 2015, he averaged 12.1 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game.
On 10 September 2015, Fisher signed with the Cairns Taipans as a development player for the 2015–16 NBL season. Exactly a month later, he made his debut for the Taipans, playing 48 seconds in a blowout loss to the Sydney Kings. His second game of the season came on 8 January 2016, recording one rebound in just over a minute of action against the Townsville Crocodiles. Following the conclusion of the NBL season, he joined the Taipans' affiliate team, the Cairns Marlins, for the 2016 Queensland Basketball League season. Fisher helped the Marlins reach the QBL grand final, where they defeated the Brisbane Capitals 2–0 in the best-of-three series. In 19 games for the Marlins, he averaged 11.6 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game.
Fisher re-joined the Taipans as a development player for the 2016–17 NBL season. He made his season debut on 7 November 2016, recording one offensive rebound in 37 seconds against the Sydney Kings. He appeared in just two games during his second season with the Taipans, and in April 2017, he re-joined the Marlins for the 2017 Queensland Basketball League season.