Darnell Mee
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Position | Guard |
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Height | 198cm |
Weight | 90kg |
Team | Cairns Taipans (NBL) |
Nationality | Australia / United States |
Born | February 11, 1971 Cleveland, Tennessee, USA |
College/University | Western Kentucky University |
Debut | 1996 |
Previous Clubs | Canberra Cannons 1996 Adelaide 36ers 1998-2001 Cairns Taipans 2003 Wollongong Hawks 2004-05 Cairns Taipans 2006- |
Championships | 1998, 1999 |
Career Highlights | NBL's Best Defensive Player (1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006) NBL's First Team (2001, 2005) |
LaFarrell Darnell Mee (born February 11, 1971, in Cleveland, Tennessee) is an American-Australian basketball player and former National Basketball Association player. He was selected by the Golden State Warriors with the 34th overall pick (2nd round) of the 1993 NBA Draft.
Mee, who played college basketball at Western Kentucky University for three seasons, played 40 games in the NBA for just over one season with the Denver Nuggets plus 3 of the Nuggets 12 playoff games in 1994. He was mostly a 12th man.
He also played in the CBA for the Yakima Sun Kings, France for BCM Gravelines, Italy for Kinder Bologna, and Germany for Leverkusen, before finally settling in Australia for the NBL where he has played since 1996 (not in 1997). Mee gained Australian citizenship in the 06/07 NBL season.[citation needed] He and Kevin Brooks were teammates with both the Denver Nuggets and Adelaide 36ers.