Marcus Ryan Elliott (born April 24, 1984) is an American professional

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player for the

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of the

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College career

Elliott had played his 2 years of junior college basketball at Okaloosa-Walton CC in

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. Moreover, he had experienced 2 years of college basketball at Louisiana Tech with 61 times of appearance for the team in

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. Elliott graduated from Louisiana Tech in 2007.

Professional career

After being a year of construction worker, Elliott began his professional career in a Chilean

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club

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club Club Social y Deportivo Anastasia in September 2009. He moved to the Liga Profesional de Baloncesto club

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for a short period in April 2010 before joining the Argentinian

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club Club Deportivo Libertad. After 5 months in Argentina, he moved to Ecuadorian

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club Club Deportivo Mavort, where he finished out the season and helped the team win the 2010–11 Liga Ecuatoriana de Baloncesto championship. Elliott returned to Chile in October 2011 to play for Liga Nacional de Básquetbol de Chile club Club Deportivo Liceo Mixto. He returned to Uruguay in February to join Club Atlético Welcome before signing with

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in April. He then played with Club Atlético Olimpia between October 2012 and April 2013 before moving to Mexico to play for Garra Cañera de Navolato. and Ángeles Guerreros de Acapulco. Elliott returned to Argentina in March 2014 and signed for

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but left the following month for Toros de Aragua. After just five months, he returned to Mexico to join the Mexican club Huracanes de Tampico, where he stayed for a year before returning to Uruguay to play for

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. In February 2016, Elliott signed with

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Argentina and helped the team to win the champion of 2015–16 Liga Nacional de Básquet. He left South America altogether in November 2016 to join the ASEAN Basketball League and

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club Hong Kong Eastern, where he was part of the ABL 2017 and Hong Kong A1 2018 season winning team. He signed with

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in November 2016.

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