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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Basketball player

Position
  
Name
  
Mario Austin

Pro career
  
2003

Listed weight
  
264 lb (120 kg)

Weight
  
118 kg

Listed height
  
6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)

Height
  
2.06 m


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Born
  
February 26, 1982 (age 42) Livingston, Alabama (
1982-02-26
)

High school
  
Sumter County (York, Alabama)

College
  
Mississippi State (2000–2003)

NBA draft
  
2003 / Round: 2 / Pick: 36th overall

Education
  
Mississippi State University

Mario austin


Mario Trevon Austin (born February 26, 1982) is an American former professional basketball player.

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College career

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Austin played 3 seasons at Mississippi State under head coach Rick Stansbury. He is well known for hitting a clutch 3-point shot in a 2002 win over Kentucky. Austin was named second team All-SEC that season (2001–02).

Austin returned to the Bulldogs in 2002–03 and was named first team All-SEC. Austin declared for the 2003 NBA Draft at the season, choosing not to return to Mississippi State for his senior year.

Professional career

After being drafted 36th overall in the 2003 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls, Austin left to play overseas, starting his professional career with CSKA Moscow, but was released after an injury before playing an official game. Afterwards he signed with the Jackson Rage of the WBA where he spent the remaining of the season.

In 2004, he signed with Italian team Lauretana Biella and in 2005 he was with Hapoel Jerusalem B.C. who got sponsored by billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak shortly before, he quickly became one of the dominant players in the team and led it to the Uleb Cup semi-finals and to the Israeli League Finals

In the summer of 2007, he joined the Bulls for the 2007 NBA Summer League and later, he signed with Benetton Treviso.

On July 18, 2008, Austin signed with Beşiktaş Cola Turka.

At the start of the 2009–10 season, Austin was signed by Meridiano Alicante, but was released on January 21, 2010. On April 10, 2010, Austin was signed by the Atléticos de San Germán of the Puerto Rican league but was waived the next month.

On August 13, 2010, Austin signed with Ukrainian club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. On April 2, 2011, the Bulls traded his draft rights to the Utah Jazz as part of the Carlos Boozer sign-and-trade.

On October 31, 2011, Austin signed with BC Kyiv.

On November 3, 2012 Austin signed with Al Kuwait. On November 9, 2013, he signed with Kuwaiti club Kazma.

On February 3, 2015, Austin signed with KB Peja of the Siguria Superleague and on October 9, Austin signed with Deportivo Valdivia of the Liga Nacional de Básquetbol de Chile (LNB). On November 14, he was waived by Deportivo Valdivia.

References

Mario Austin Wikipedia


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