Brian Augustus Wethers (born December 17, 1980) is an American former professional

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

player. Wethers primarily played the small forward or shooting guard position. This career ended with a foot injury.

Basketball career

High school

Wethers graduated from

Murrieta Valley High School Murrieta Valley High School (MVHS), colloquially known as MV or Valley opened in 1990 as the first four-year comprehensive high school in Murrieta, California. The school is nestled at the base of the Santa Rosa Plateau, at the western end of the ...

in 1999.

College basketball

Wethers attended college at the

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in Berkeley.

Professional career

After college, Wethers tore an

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during a tryout for the

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. Wethers played for

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in Germany and Shandong in China in the 2003–2004 season. He moved in 2004 to the

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in the

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National Basketball League. Wethers was a standout for the Pirates during the 2004–2005 NBL season leading the league in scoring with 24.3 points a game and being named the

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.Wethers wins MVP
/ref> Wethers' strong play took the Pirates to the playoffs, after they had previously only won 2 matches the season before. After the end of the NBL season Wethers moved to Hyères-Toulon in France where he played 24 matches during the 2005–2006 season. He returned to the NBL in 2006 signing for the

New Zealand Breakers The New Zealand Breakers (also known as the Sky Sport Breakers for sponsorship reasons) are a New Zealand professional basketball team based in Auckland. The Breakers compete in the National Basketball League (NBL) and play their home games at ...

, who had struggled in the league since their inception in 2003–2004. Wethers was a fourth round selection in the 2007 NBA Development League Draft by the

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, however he only played two matches before being released. He moved to Ukraine in 2008, signing with

BC Budivelnyk Kyiv BC Budivelnyk Kyiv (in Ukrainian: Будівельник Київ) is a Ukrainian professional basketball club based in Kyiv. The club plays in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague. In June 2018, it was forced to withdraw from the Superleague due t ...

. In 2008 Wethers spent time at the

Waikato Pistons The Waikato Pistons were a New Zealand basketball team based in Hamilton. The Pistons competed in the National Basketball League (NBL) and played their home games at Hamilton Boys' High School. After sitting out the 2012 NBL season, the Pisto ...

in the

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. In 2009, he played for

Antranik SC The Antranik Youth Association (AYA) ( ar, جمعية شباب الأنترانيك; ), or simply Antranik (; ), is a Lebanese-Armenian multi-sports and cultural club based in Antelias, Matn District, Lebanon. Established in Beirut, Lebanon ...

in Lebanon before in late 2009 moving to Uruguay to play for

Club Malvín Club Malvín is a sports club from Montevideo, Uruguay, established on January 28, 1938, in the residential neighbourhood of Malvín. The club engages in several sports: futsal, tennis, and handball, but basketball is by far the most importan ...

. Wethers was signed in March 2010 to

Khimik Yuzhny Khimik Yuzhne ( uk, Хімік Южне) is a Ukrainian professional basketball club that is based in Yuzhne. The club plays in the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague. In 2006, the club reached the final of the EuroCup Challenge, where they were defe ...

Post Basketball Career

Wethers is now the owner of Wethers' Elite Training. The company provides private training, camps, clinics, and travel team opportunities for boys and girls.

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