Robert Arnold (born November 12, 1988) was an American professional

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player for

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of Germany's Basketball Bundesliga.

Personal life

Arnold was born in Lancaster, California. He attended Lancaster High School and went on to graduate from Boise State University in Boise, ID. Upon graduation, Arnold went on to have a successful career playing for multiple elite European leagues.

Career

Arnold played two years for the

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and turned professional in 2011. After that he played two years for the

Allianz Swans Gmunden Basket Swans Gmunden is an Austrian professional basketball club that is based in Gmunden. Their home arena is Volksbank-Arena Gmunden. The club has won the Austrian Bundesliga five times; the last championship was in 2021. To add to that, the Sw ...

, where he scored 15.5 points per game in his last season. After his stance in Austria, he left for

Namika Lahti Namika Lahti was a basketball club based in Lahti, Finland. The club played in the Korisliiga, the top Finnish championship league. The club was established in 1898 in Vyborg and moved to Lahti in 1947. In 2015, the club was dissolved, after econom ...

in the Finnish

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. After a successful individual season, in which Arnold averaged 18.6 points a game, he signed with the Finnish powerhouse

Kataja Basket Club Kataja Basket Club is a professional basketball club of sports club Kataja from Joensuu, Finland. The team plays in the Korisliiga, the highest tier of Finnish basketball. In 2015, Kataja won its first national championship, after it beat Bisons ...

for the 2014–15 season. With Kataja he won the Finnish Korisliiga. On June 19, 2015, he signed a one-year deal with Belgian club

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. On July 23, 2016, Arnold joined Rethymno Cretan Kings. The following season, Arnold joined Hyères-Toulon of France's

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. In 2017, Arnold signed a 2 year deal to play for JDA Dijon in France, but was released from the team in November 2018 for failing to be a team player and poor attitude. On December 12, 2018, he has signed contract with

of Germany's Basketball Bundesliga. In May 2019, Arnold was officially released from the Merlins for poor attitude and inability to function after an elbow injury left him unable to shoot.

References

External links

Robert Arnold
at eurobasket.com

at fiba.com

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