Marcus Fizer

Marcus Fizer

Fizer in 2006 with the Austin Toros
Personal information
Born (1978-08-10) August 10, 1978
Inkster, Michigan
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight 265 lb (120 kg)
Career information
High school Arcadia (Arcadia, Louisiana)
College Iowa State (1997–2000)
NBA draft 2000 / Round: 1 / Pick: 4th overall
Selected by the Chicago Bulls
Playing career 2000–2015
Position Power forward / Small forward
Career history
2000–2004 Chicago Bulls
2004–2005 Milwaukee Bucks
2005–2006 Austin Toros
2006 New Orleans / Oklahoma City Hornets
2006–2007 Polaris World Murcia
2007 Capitanes de Arecibo
2007–2009 Maccabi Tel Aviv
2009 Capitanes de Arecibo
2010 Mets de Guaynabo
2011 Taiwan Mobile Clouded Leopards
2012 Brujos de Guayama
2012 Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca
2013–2014 Muharraq
2014–2015 Guaros de Lara
2015 Defensor Sporting Club
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Men’s basketball
Representing  United States
Goodwill Games
2001 Brisbane National team

Darnell Marcus Lamar Fizer (born August 10, 1978) is an American professional basketball player.

High school career

Fizer played high school basketball at Arcadia High School in Arcadia, Louisiana. As a senior, Fizer was selected to play in the McDonald's All-American Game.[1]

College career

Iowa State Cyclones head coach Tim Floyd became aware of Fizer's potential while coaching in Louisiana and interested Fizer in playing collegiate basketball at Iowa State University. Fizer became the first (and only as of 2015-16) McDonald's All-American to play for the Cyclones.

Tim Floyd left Iowa State to coach the Chicago Bulls of the NBA after Fizer's freshman year and was replaced by Larry Eustachy. While playing for both Floyd and Eustachy, Fizer accumulated many Big 12 Conference and national accolades including All-Big 12 honorable mention (freshman), National first-team All-Freshman, first team All-Big 12 (sophomore and junior), Big 12 Player of the Year (junior), Big 12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player (junior), and consensus first-team All-America (junior).[1] He led the Big 12 in scoring his sophomore and junior seasons.[1] Following a Big 12 regular season title,[2] Big 12 tournament title,[2] and NCAA Tournament Elite Eight finish[2] his junior year, Fizer elected to declare for the NBA Draft.[1]

Fizer is ranked fifth on ISU's career scoring list with 1,830 points recorded during his three seasons.

Professional career

Fizer was selected with the fourth pick of the 2000 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls,[3] coached by Tim Floyd, the coach that recruited him to Iowa State. Many analysts suspected that the Bulls had drafted Fizer merely to trade him for another player, since the Bulls already had Elton Brand at the power forward position. However, no such trade ever took place, and Fizer spent the next four years with the Bulls. He never averaged more than 12.3 points per game. Fizer tore his ACL in late January 2003. In 2004, he was selected by the Charlotte Bobcats in the expansion draft. Not making their final roster, he signed as a free agent with the Milwaukee Bucks.

After one season in Milwaukee, he failed to sign a free agent deal with another team. In November 2005, he signed with the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League. On March 8, 2006, Fizer signed a 10-day contract with the Seattle SuperSonics, but did not play any games for them. On March 31, 2006, he was named the NBA Development League MVP for the 2005–2006 season. The same day, he was signed to a 10-day contract with the New Orleans Hornets.

He appeared in 289 career NBA games, making 35 starts and averaging 9.6 ppg, 4.6 rpg and 1.2 apg, shooting .435 from the floor and .691 from the free throw line in 20.9 mpg. Fizer scored 20+ points 17 times, with 10+ rebounds on 22 occasions in his four-year NBA career.

Fizer played for the gold medal-winning United States team at the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia while averaging 4.8 points and 3.0 rebounds, shooting .550 from the floor.

In the summer of 2006 he signed a one-year contract with Polaris World Murcia of the Spanish league ACB. Then he played with Capitanes de Arecibo, in the Puerto Rico professional basketball league (BSN).[4] In 2007 Fizer signed a two-year deal with the Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv. In the 2007–2008 season the Israeli Super League club reached the Euroleague championship game, eventually losing to CSKA Moscow. Fizer was unable to play in the later stages of the Euroleague due to a knee injury that led to the termination of his contract with Maccabi just before the 2008–2009 season started.

In February 2010, Fizer signed with the Guaynabo Mets of Puerto Rico, along with Antoine Walker.[5] In 11 games he averaged 13.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game.[6]

In December 2011, Fizer signed with the Taiwan Mobile Clouded Leopards of Taiwan. He was later released after playing just one game with them, despite scoring an impressive 23 points, 13 rebounds and 2 assists.[7]

In September 2012, Fizer joined Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca of Argentina.[8] In 13 games he averaged 17.2 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game.[9]

Personal

Fizer was one of the most heavily tattooed players in the NBA. As of March 2006, he had 31 tattoos.[10]

Off the court, he has served as a youth minister.[11] Fizer said in an interview, "My uncle, who was my mother’s brother, was taking her to get an abortion, and I don’t know if he lost the car or what, but he lost control and crashed into a church. The members of the church helped them and the minister told them 'whatever you’re thinking about doing, don’t do it, because you’re carrying a minister' without her even showing signs of pregnancy."[12]

NBA statistics

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2000–01 Chicago 72 13 21.9 .430 .256 .727 4.3 1.1 0.4 0.3 9.5
2001–02 Chicago 76 20 25.8 .438 .171 .668 5.6 1.6 0.6 0.3 12.3
2002–03 Chicago 38 0 21.3 .465 .167 .657 5.7 1.3 0.4 0.4 11.7
2003–04 Chicago 46 2 16.0 .383 .118 .750 4.4 0.9 0.3 0.2 7.8
2004–05 Milwaukee 54 0 16.7 .455 .000 .680 3.2 1.2 0.5 0.2 6.2
2005–06 New Orleans 3 0 13.0 .529 1.000 .500 2.3 0.3 1.2 0.0 6.7
Career 289 35 20.9 .435 .191 .691 4.6 1.2 0.5 0.3 9.6

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Marcus Fizer". CNNSI.com. 2001. Retrieved June 4, 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 Big 12 Men's Basketball Record Book. Big 12 Conference. pp. 8–13.
  3. ↑ Brown, Rick (October 21, 2000). "Fizer picked fourth by Bulls". DesMoinesRegister.com. Retrieved June 4, 2008.
  4. ↑ CAPITANES DE ARECIBO roster, LatinBasket.com
  5. ↑ Antoine Walker Signs In Puerto Rico
  6. ↑ http://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Marcus_Fizer/Wuber_Estudiantes_de_Bahia_Blanca/13402?Cntry=&PlayerID=13402&stats=2010
  7. ↑ http://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Marcus_Fizer/Wuber_Estudiantes_de_Bahia_Blanca/13402?Cntry=&PlayerID=13402&stats=2012,
  8. ↑ Bahia Estudiantes land Marcus Fizer
  9. ↑ http://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Marcus_Fizer/Wuber_Estudiantes_de_Bahia_Blanca/13402
  10. ↑ Allen, Percy. Tattoos tell story of former first-round pick Marcus Fizer, Seattle Times, March 10, 2006
  11. ↑ Former NBA lottery pick Marcus Fizer finds new calling
  12. ↑ A TLN Exclusive Interview with Former #4 Pick Marcus Fizer
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