James "Jimbo" Lull (born August 2, 1996) is an American professional

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player for

Flyers Wels Raiffeisen Flyers Wels, formerly WBC Wels, is a professional basketball club based in Wels, Austria. The team plays in the Austrian Basketball League The Austrian Basketball Bundesliga (in German: Österreichische Basketball Bundesliga) was the ...

of the

Austrian Basketball Superliga The Austrian Basketball Superliga (English: Basketball Super League) is the highest tier basketball league in Austria. Established in 2019, it replaced the Austrian Basketball Bundesliga (ABL) as the first level competition in the country. The win ...

. He played college basketball for

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

High school career

Lull grew up in

Manhattan Beach, California Manhattan Beach is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States, on the Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast south of El Segundo, California, El Segundo, west of Hawthorne, California, Hawthorne and Redondo Beach, California, Red ...

and focused on surfing before turning his attention to basketball. He attended Rolling Hills Preparatory School in

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for three years. As a sophomore, Lull averaged 18.8 points and 12.8 rebounds per game, helping the Huskies reach the Southern Section 5A championship game. He averaged 15.4 points, 12.3 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game as a junior. Lull transferred to

New Hampton School New Hampton School is an independent college preparatory high school in New Hampton, New Hampshire, United States. It has 305 students from over 30 states and 22 countries. The average class size is eleven, and the student-faculty ratio is five t ...

for his senior year and also a

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. He committed to

in November 2015.

College career

Lull came off the bench for his first two seasons at San Francisco. Following his sophomore season, he improved his conditioning by running up mountains in New Hampshire. As a junior, Lull averaged 8.5 points and 5.3 rebounds per game. On November 30, 2019, Lull scored a career-high 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in an 85–75 loss to

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. He averaged 11.9 points and 7.6 rebounds per game as a senior. Lull was named Honorable Mention All-

West Coast Conference The West Coast Conference (WCC) — known as the California Basketball Association from 1952 to 1956 and then as the West Coast Athletic Conference until 1989 — is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with NCAA Division I consisting of ...

Professional career

Lull signed his first professional contract with

Ionikos Nikaias Ionikos Nikaias (full name Athlitikos Omilos Ionikos Nikaias, A.O. Ionikos Nikaias / el, Α.Ο. Ιωνικός Νικαίας) is a Greek multi-sports club that is based in Nikaia, Piraeus. It was founded in 1965, and it has teams in football, b ...

of the

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on September 24, 2020. After being tested by the team and appearing in two cup games, he signed with

Sloboda Užice A sloboda ( rus, слобода́, p=sləbɐˈda) was a kind of settlement in the history of the Old Russian regions Povolzhye, Central Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The name is derived from the early Slavic word for " freedom" and may be loosely ...

of the

Basketball League of Serbia The Basketball League of Serbia ( sr, Кошаркашка лига Србије, Košarkaška liga Srbije; abbr. КЛС or KLS), is a top-tier men's professional basketball league in Serbia. Founded in 2006, it is run by the Basketball Federatio ...

. He averaged 7.5 points and 4.5 rebounds per game. On December 2, 2020, Lull signed a one-season contract with

Cheshire Phoenix The Cheshire Phoenix are a professional basketball team based in Ellesmere Port, England. Founded in 1984, they are members of the British Basketball League and play their home games at the Cheshire Oaks Arena. From 1993 until 2015 the team was ...

of the

British Basketball League The British Basketball League (BBL) is a men's professional basketball league in Great Britain and represents the highest level of play in the countries. The league is contested by 10 teams from England and Scotland. There are no clubs howeve ...

(BBL). He averaged 12.8 points, 6.9 rebounds, and 1.0 assist per game. Lull joined the

Edmonton Stingers The Edmonton Stingers are a Canadian professional basketball team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They compete in the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) and play their home games at the HIVE arena at the Edmonton Expo Centre. The Stingers' masco ...

of the

Canadian Elite Basketball League The Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) is a men's professional minor league basketball organization. The CEBL was founded in 2017 and began play in 2019 with six teams competing all owned and operated by ownership group Canadian Basketball ...

in 2021. He averaged 3.5 points and 1.3 rebounds per game in four games. On September 27, 2021, Lull signed with

of the

Career statistics

College

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, 32 , , 6 , , 12.5 , , .571 , , .231 , , .727 , , 2.4 , , .5 , , .3 , , .3 , , 3.6 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2017–18 , style="text-align:left;",

, 31 , , 1 , , 11.0 , , .566 , , .083 , , .656 , , 3.0 , , .3 , , .2 , , .6 , , 4.3 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2018–19 , style="text-align:left;",

, 31 , , 29 , , 19.2 , , .604 , , .000 , , .729 , , 5.3 , , .7 , , .2 , , .5 , , 8.5 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2019–20 , style="text-align:left;",

, 34 , , 34 , , 28.1 , , .569 , , .323 , , .755 , , 7.6 , , 1.1 , , .6 , , .8 , , 11.9 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 128 , , 70 , , 17.9 , , .579 , , .246 , , .730 , , 4.6 , , .6 , , .3 , , .5 , , 7.2

References

External links

San Francisco Dons bio
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