Denis Clemente (born April 10, 1986 in
Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Bayamón (, ) is a Bayamón barrio-pueblo, city, Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of Puerto Rico and suburb of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan located in the northern coastal valley, north of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Aguas Buenas an ...
) is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player for the
Brujos de Guayama
Brujos de Guayama is a Puerto Rican professional basketball team of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional based in Guayama, Puerto Rico. Despite being in the league since 1971, the team has not won any BSN Championships but have made 2 finals appeara ...
of the
Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He played collegiately in the United States with the
Kansas State University Wildcats, which he graduated from in 2010. He is a 6'1, 175 pound
combo guard.
Clemente led Kansas State to the Elite 8 round of the
2010 NCAA Tournament before losing to the
Butler Bulldogs. Clemente entered the
2010 NBA Draft
The 2010 NBA draft was held on June 24, 2010, at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The draft, which started at 7:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (2300 UTC), was broadcast in the United States on ESPN. In this draft, National ...
but went undrafted, and later played in the
NBA Summer League
The NBA Summer League, also known as the Las Vegas Summer League, is an off-season competition organized by the National Basketball Association. NBA teams come together to try out different summer rosters instead of their regular season line-ups ...
with the
Charlotte Bobcats, but was cut prior to training camp. In December 2010 he signed with
Greek club
Maroussi BC. In September 2011 he signed with
Slovak club BK Bemaco SPU Nitra. In 2011 he was selected Rookie of the Year in
Puerto Rico's Professional league. He has also had a stint playing professional basketball in Mexico.
Personal life
He is the second cousin of
Major League Baseball Hall of Fame
A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or Wiktionary:fame, fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actu ...
player
Roberto Clemente.
Passion pays off for Kansas State's Denis Clemente in NCAA Tournament
St. Petersburg Times, March 24, 2010
References
External links
Denis Clemente
at RealGM
Stats in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (Puerto Rico's Professional league)
1986 births
Living people
Caciques de Humacao players
Capitanes de Arecibo players
Fuerza Regia de Monterrey players
Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball players
Maroussi B.C. players
Miami Hurricanes men's basketball players
Mineros de Zacatecas (basketball) players
Sportspeople from Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Pioneros de Quintana Roo players
Point guards
Puerto Rican men's basketball players
Puerto Rican expatriate basketball people in Israel
Puerto Rican expatriate basketball people in Italy
Puerto Rican expatriate basketball people in Mexico
Puerto Rican expatriate basketball people in Slovakia
Reyer Venezia players
Shooting guards
Victoria Libertas Pallacanestro players
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