Nationality American / Bulgarian Listed weight 190 lb (86 kg) Name E. Rowland Height 1.91 m | Listed height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) NBA draft 2005 / Undrafted Role Basketball Player Weight 86 kg Pro career 2005 | |
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League Israeli Premier LeagueEurocup High school Palma (Salinas, California) Education Hartnell College, Saint Mary's College of California, California State University, Dominguez Hills | ||
Earl rowland fight with buducnost fan
Earl Jerrod "E.J." Rowland (born May 18, 1983) is an American-born Bulgarian basketball player who plays for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Premier League. Standing at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), he plays the point guard position.
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E. J. Rowland - MVP of the regular season
College career
Rowland began his college career with CSU Dominguez Hills. As a freshman with the Toros, he averaged 9.8 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 2.3 assists while starting 24 of 27 games. Following this season, he transferred to Hartnell College, a two-year community college in Salinas, California. In his only season with the team, he led the squad in points, assists, steals, and free-throw percentage en route to being named Coast Conference Player of the Year and earning All-State honors.
Rowland finished his college career with two years of NCAA basketball at St. Mary's (CA). He had two successful seasons with the Gaels, leading the team in assists in both his years there. Following his senior season, he earned honorable mention All-WCC.
Professional career
Rowland began his professional career in the D-League with the Florida Flame. After seeing little action off the bench for the team, he spent the 2005–06 season with Barons LMT in Latvia. He then spent the 2006–07 season in Australia before landing with Artland Dragons of the Basketball Bundesliga in 2007. In 2008–09, he averaged 13.6 points and 3.4 assists per game for Telekom Baskets Bonn. He helped the team to the finals of the Bundesliga for the second consecutive season. In July 2011 he signed a two-year deal with Unicaja Malaga in Spain. After unsuccessful season for himself and team, Unicaja decided to go another direction and loaned Rowland to Latvian champions VEF Riga.
In Latvia E.J. had a break-out year leading his team to a great season, while Rowland got multiple individual awards. After such season Rowland moved to Turkey, signing lucrative deal with Banvit.
On January 7, 2015, in a Eurocup away game against Buducnost Podgorica, he was involved in the incident. With two minutes of game remaining, a hooligan ran into the court in order to hit Sammy Mejia of Banvit, after which Rowland punch him from the back at full run. After the brawl, referee ejected him from the court. He was fined by the ULEB for taking part in the incident with 30,000 euros.
On August 12, 2015, Rowland signed a one-year deal with the Israeli club Hapoel Jerusalem.
Bulgarian national basketball team
Rowland was invited to try out for the one naturalized player spot on the Bulgarian national basketball team for Eurobasket 2009. He beat out Andre Owens for the naturalized spot on the roster. With the national team, he led all players at Eurobasket 2009 in minutes played, while averaging 17.7 points per game. Despite his efforts, the Bulgarians finished 0–3 and were eliminated in the group stage.