SEMINOLES IN PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL (As of October 4, 2013)

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1 SEMINOLES IN PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL (As of October 4, 2013) Solomon Alabi Played three seasons under head coach Leonard Hamilton (2008, 2009, and 2010) and was a member of two NCAA Tournament teams (2009 and 2010) during his career at Florida State a two-time ACC All-Defensive team selection in 2009 and 2010 as he led the ACC in blocked shots in both seasons...blocked 73 shots in 35 games for a 2.1 blocked shots per game average in 2009 and blocked a single season career-high 75 shots in 32 games for a career-high 2.3 blocked shots per game average in the first Seminole to lead the ACC in blocked shots in a single season and only the ninth player in ACC history to lead the league in blocked shots in consecutive seasons was the 50th overall selection of the Dallas Mavericks in the 2010 NBA Draft his draft rights were traded on draft night to the Toronto Raptors where he began his professional career in 2010 has also played for the Erie Bayhawks and the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA Developmental league played as a member of the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Summer League in 2011 played half the season in the D-league with the Idaho Stampede where he average 6.7 ppg and 5.8 rpg played the second half of the season in Greece with Ikaros where he played 15.1 minutes per game and average 5.5 rpg. Jerel Allen Played on two NIT teams (2006 and 2007) during his two year career at Florida State under head coach Leonard Hamilton averaged 4.2 points and 1.7 rebounds in 65 games played as a Seminole played in two wins over Duke including the Seminoles victory over the No. 1 ranked Blue Devils on March 1, 2006 has played professionally in Australia, Ukraine, Lithuania and Germany and will play his second season in Greece for the season last year he averaged 12.6 ppg and 4.4 rpg. Toney Douglas Earned All-American Third Team honors by the Associated Press and Sporting News in 2009 as he averaged a career-high 21.5 points per game played three years at Florida State for head coach Leonard Hamilton (2007, 2008 and 2009) and led the Seminoles to the 2009 NCAA Tournament. Earned All-ACC First-Team honors, was named the ACC Defensive Player of the Year and earned All-ACC Tournament second team honors in leading the Seminoles to the championship game of the ACC Tournament for the first time in school history in 2009 was selected in the first round of the 2009 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers and traded to the New York Knicks on draft night. He played three years for the Knicks and was traded to the Houston Rockets in 2012 spent most of the season playing with the Houston Rockets where he averaged 18.6 minutes per game and 8.1 points and was traded to the Sacramento Kings in 2013 signed as a free agent to the Golden State Warriors for the season. Deividas Dulkys Played four seasons at Florida State for Leonard Hamilton (2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012) and is a member of the winningest senior class in school history with 95 wins ranks fourth in school history for career 3-point shots made (203) and holds the school record for 3-point shots made in an ACC game with eight in a win over No. 4 North Carolina on Jan., 14, 2012 his eight 3-point shots helped him score a career-high 32 points fourth in school history with 203 career 3-point shots made and third with 572 career 3-point shots attempted played in four NCAA Tournaments and helped Florida State to its first ever ACC Championship in 2012 signed his first professional contract with Leituvos Rytas in Lithuania in 2012 will play his second season with the Leituvos Rytas for the season. Xavier Gibson Played four seasons at Florida State (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) and is part of the winningest class in school history (95 wins) helped Florida State advance to a school record four consecutive NCAA Tournaments and was a starter on the Seminoles 2012 ACC Championship team played in the first two ACC Tournament championship games in school history (2009 and 2012) ranked 12th in school history with 100 career blocked shots and is one of only 12 players in school history with 100 or more career blocked shots signed his first professional contract with Attalya BSB of the Turkish Basketball League his career will begin in with the team based in the city of Antalya in Turkey began the season playing with Attalya BSB in Turkey finished the second half of the season in Greece where he averaged 8.6 ppg and 3.4 rpg was a member of the roster for the Milwaukee Bucks for the 2013 summer league

2 LaMarr Greer Earned four varsity letters at Florida State (1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998) and played on Florida State s 1998 NCAA Tournament team is the Seminoles 38th all-time leading scorer with 1,022 points averaged a career high 11.1 points in 1998 as Florida State finished with an record and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament started his first two seasons at the point guard position before moving to the wing position for his final two seasons has played in Italy, Greece, Russia and the Ukraine averaged 14.9 points per game for Ironi Nahariya in the Israel Premier League during the season where he expects to play during the season his 16th year as a professional player... Played the past season in Finland with Kouvot averaged 12.7 ppg and 3.5 rpg the season will mark his 17 th year as a professional player. Ron Hale A four-year letter winner at Florida State (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000) and was a starter on Florida State s 1998 NCAA Tournament team earned All-ACC honors twice during his career and scored 1,236 points in 120 games for a career average of 10.6 points per game despite being undrafted following his career as a Seminole, he signed a free agent contract with the Miami Heat in 2001 has played in France, the Philippines, Portugal and Japan in addition to the CBA with the Yakima Sun Kings he ranked fifth in the Japanese Pro SuperLeague in 2004 with a 4.3 assists per game average played with the Mitsubishi DD in Japan for the past four seasons averaged 12.7 ppg and 7.2 rpg Trevor Harvey Earned two varsity letters (2002 and 2003) at Florida State and played one season under Leonard Hamilton played in three wins over nationally ranked teams including the Seminoles victory over No. 1 ranked Duke (77-76) on Jan. 6, 2002 in Tallahassee played in 57 career games for the Seminoles after transferring from Marshalltown Community College averaged a career high 8.4 points per games for the Seminoles in 2003 was a member of the Bahamas Junior National team and played for the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Summer League in 2005 has played in Morocco, Mexico, Romania, Turkey, Hungry and most recently Romania currently a member of the CSS Giurgiu team in the Romanian Division A League where he is under contract for the season played the past season in Romania where he put up 10.1 shots per game and averaged 6.1 rebounds per game. Bernard James Earned All-ACC Honorable Mention and ACC All-Defensive honors as a senior played two seasons under head coach Leonard Hamilton (2011 and 2012) and played on two NCAA Tournament teams helped Florida State win its first ever ACC Championship in 2012 second all-time in school history in field goal percentage shooting and blocked shots drafted in the second round (33rd overall) by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2012 NBA Draft his rights were traded to the Dallas Mavericks where he will begin his professional career for the 2013 season enjoyed his rookie season with the Dallas Mavericks where he average 9.8 minutes per game, put up 2.8 and pulled down 2.8 rebounds per game. Will begin his second seasons with the Mavericks for the season. Alexander Johnson A three year letter winner at Florida State (2004, 2005, 2006) and was a member of two Seminoles NIT teams (2004 and 2006) earned an All-ACC Honorable Mention selection as one of the top big men in the conference as a junior...averaged 13.2 points, 7.4 rebounds and 1.0 blocked shots his final year as a Seminole decided to play professionally after his junior year was drafted in the second round of the 2006 NBA Draft by the Indiana Pacers rights were traded to the Memphis Grizzles started in 19 out of 59 games played for the Grizzles where he averaged 4.4 points per game and 3.1 rebounds signed as a free agent to the Miami Heat averaged 11.7 points and 6.2 rebounds in 43 games played for the Heat has since played for the Sioux Falls Skyforce, Idaho Stampede and Arkansas RimRockers in the NBA Development League has been a member of teams in Germany, South Korea and China played the season in China with the Liaoning Flying Leopards and averaged 14.4 points per game and 8.2 rebounds for the season. Michael Joiner Earned four varsity letters (2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004) and was a member of the Seminoles 2004 NIT team averaged 7.9 points in 120 games played named to the ACC All-Rookie team in 2001 as he helped the Seminoles to a win over No. 14 ranked Maryland on Feb. 14, 2001 averaged a career high 9.3 points in 30 games as a freshman averaged 19.3 points per game for the Canterbury Rams of the New Zealand Basketball League in

3 2007 averaged 8.5 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.5 assists in three seasons as a member of the Sioux Fall Skyforce in the NBA Developmental League played for the Austin Toros of the NBA D League has also played professionally in China, Australia and South Korea. Derwin Kitchen A three-year starter at the guard position who played on three consecutive NCAA Tournament teams (2009, 2010, 2011) for head coach Leonard Hamilton a starting guard on three consecutive Florida State teams that finished in the top four of the ACC standings (fourth in 2009, third in 2010 and third in 2011) for the first time in school history...florida State won 70 games overall and 31 games in regular season ACC play with Kitchen in the starting line-up during his career...with Kitchen in Florida State's starting line-up, the Seminoles were the third winningest program in the ACC in both overall games and ACC games only a standout player for Maccabi Rishon in Israel in and will play for Panathinaikos Athens in the top league in Greece during the season expected to begin the season in Turkey playing with Besikts started the season in Greece with Panathinaikos and finished the season in Croatia. Jon Kreft Earned two varsity letters as a member of the Seminoles under head coach Leonard Hamilton (2011 and 2012) and was a member of the Seminoles 2012 ACC Championship team played on two NCAA Tournament teams (2011 and 2012) and received his degree in social science in August of 2012 during his career, Florida State was nationally ranked (as high as No. 10 during his senior season), had a overall record (.696 winning percentage), were 23-9 in the ACC (.719 winning percentage), defeated 10 ranked teams (including No. 1 ranked Duke on Jan. 12, 2011), played in two NCAA Tournament, won three NCAA Tournament games and won the 2012 ACC Tournament to capture the first ACC Championship in school history...began his professional career with the Memphis Grizzlies as a member of their summer league team in 2012 played his rookie season for BK Minsk in Belarus where he averaged 10.0 minutes per game, 4.0 ppg and 2.0 RPG Luke Loucks Florida State's starting point guard during his senior season who set the school record for career games played (136) and wins played in by a Seminole player (95) during his four year career...played on a school record four consecutive NCAA Tournament teams (2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012) and helped the Seminoles win their first ACC Championship in in addition to helping lead the Seminoles to four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and to the championship of the 2012 ACC Tournament, he led Florida State to the first two appearances in the championship game of the ACC Tournament (2009 and 2012), to the championships of the 2009 Global Sports Classic, the 2010 Old Spice Classic, two victories over the nation's No. 1 ranked team (North Carolina in 2009 and Duke in 2011) will begin his professional career with two-time defending Latvian League champion VEF Riga during the season averaged 5.3 assist and 3.3 rebounds while playing an average of 18 minutes playing 10 games with VEF Riga in Latvian and averaged 30.2 minutes of playing time while putting up 10.4 ppg and contributing 6.4 apg ending the second half of his rookie year season playing for Apollon in Cyprus is expected to play his second season in Belgium in Ralph Mims Earned four varsity letters at Florida State (2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008) while playing for head coach Leonard Hamilton set the all-time school record for consecutive free throws made, 33, from Dec. of 2004 through Dec. of broke Jim Oler's record of 31 consecutive free throws made in the Seminoles' victory over Campbell on Dec. 22, 2005 in the Donald L. Tucker Center...the streak began on Dec. 21, 2004 in a victory at home against Jacksonville...a member of two teams that played in the postseason NIT (2007 and 2008) made his professional basketball debut in 2008 for Pinar Karsiyaka of Turkey has played two years of professional basketball in Turkey (2008 and 2009) and one year with the French Pro team SLUC Nancy drafted in 2012 by the NBA D-league to the Iowa Energy was a roster member of the 2012 Indios SFM team in Dominican Republic Tim Pickett All-America Honorable Mention and All-ACC First Team selection as he led Florida State to the second round of the NIT as a senior in will long be remembered as one of the most exciting players in Florida State men's basketball history and the preeminent building block in Head Coach Leonard Hamilton's mission of making the Seminoles a program of significance in college basketball...played two seasons under Hamilton (2003 and 2004) and was a two-time All-ACC selection - First-Team in 2004 and Second-Team in one of only four All-ACC First-

4 Team selections in Florida State history...a two-time All-ACC Defensive Team selection - by both the coaches and the media - in both 2003 and 2004 drafted in the second round of the 2004 NBA Draft by the New Orleans Hornets has played professionally in Italy (2006, 2007, 2008), Bulgaria, China, Puerto Rico, Israel (2010) and China (2012, 2013) will play for the Xinjiang Guanghui Florida Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association during the season wrapped up the season playing for Guaiqueries in Venezuela where he averaged 29.3 minutes, 15.1 ppg and 3.8 rpg. Ryan Reid A four-year letter winner (2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010) who earned his bachelor's degree in social science from Florida State on May 1, a unique student-athlete in today's world of college athletics, he earned his degree in four years while playing as a front line player as a member of the Seminoles' basketball team during each of his four years at Florida State...played on four Seminoles teams that played in the post season as he helped the Seminoles to the NCAA Tournament in 2009 and 2010 and to the NIT in 2007 and helped lead Florida State to the first ever ACC Tournament championship game appearance in the sport of basketball in school history in selected by the Indiana Pacers in the 2010 NBA Draft with the 57th overall pick his rights were quickly traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, where he began his professional career during the season played with the Tulsa 66ers in the NBA Developmental League in and spent parts of the 2011 and 2012 season with the Thunder in the NBA played with the Tulsa 66ers in the NBA D-League in and and spent parts of the 2011 and 2012 season with the Thunder in the NBA also played in Puerto Rico and in France for the past two seasons last season he averaged 6.5 ppg and 4.1 rpg while playing for Roanne in France will play in France for his second season with for the year. Jason Rich A four-year starter (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) for head coach Leonard Hamilton and career-long double-figure scorer for the Seminoles averaged in double figure scoring in each of the final three seasons and finished his career with 1,315 career points and a per game scoring average of 10.2 points per game in 129 career games played on four postseason tournament teams the NIT in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and in the NCAA Tournament in 2009 helped lead Florida State to its first ever appearance in the ACC Championship game in 2009 has played professional basketball since the season in Italy, Belgium and Israel and will play in Russia during the season for the Enisey Krasnoyarsk team in the Russian Professional Basketball League averaged 12.0 ppg, 2.2 apg and 3.6 rpg playing with Enisey Krasnoyarsk in Russian will play in Italy for the season Anthony Richardson An All-ACC Freshman Team Honorable Mention selection in 2002 who earned four varsity letters as a Seminole (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005) helped Florida State defeat eight nationally ranked teams with at least victory over a nationally ranked team in each of his four varsity seasons...one of those victories over a nationally ranked team came against No. 1 ranked Duke during his freshman season- the first victory over the nation's No. 1 ranked team in school history averaged 8.3 points per game in 199 career games played has played professionally in the NBA Developmental League with Reno and New Mexico played in the NBA Summer League in 2005 with the New Orleans Hornets has played professionally in Holland, Germany and Japan spent part of the season playing for Aishin Sea Horses in Japan and in the D-League on the New Mexico Thunderbirds and Fort Wayne Mad Ants roster. Diego Romero A member of two NIT Tournament teams and was a member of three teams (2004, 2005, 2006) at Florida State University...earned his bachelor's degree in social sciences in April the first member of his family to earn a college degree...served as a senior team captain for the Seminoles during the season...helped lead Florida State to two victories over ranked teams during his career - No. 3 ranked Wake Forest on Jan. 18, 2005 and No. 1- ranked Duke on March 1, 2005 was one of four members making up the Seminoles' consensus No. 1-ranked recruiting class in the nation of the players entering college for the season has played professionally in Paraguay and his home country of Argentina will play for GECR Indalo in the Argentinian A League in marking the fourth consecutive season as a member of that team averaged 10.8 ppg and 4.8 rpg last season with GECR Indalo in Argentina will start the season playing with Quilmes QP in Argentina

5 Karim Shabazz Played just over one season at Florida State (1997) and the first five games of the 1998 season before leaving school for personal reasons helped lead Florida State to the championship game of the 2007 Pre-Season NIT averaged 5.1 points per game in 32 games as a freshman finished his career as he played two seasons at Providence College (2000 and 2001) played professionally with Charleston of the NBA Developmental League also played professionally in Germany, Uruguay, Sweden, Italy and Luxembourg played most recently with Etzella Ettelbruck in the Luxembourg-Diekrich League in Chris Singleton A two-time All-ACC and two-time ACC Defensive Team selection who established himself as one of the top defenders and top all-around players in school history...a winner who helped Florida State to three consecutive NCAA Tournaments in his three years (2009, 2010, 2011) after an absence from the NCAA Tournament of 18 years for the Seminole program...declared his intentions to submit his name as an eligible underclassman for the 2011 NBA Draft on April 13, earned All-ACC Third team honors as both a sophomore in 2010 and as a junior in one of the top defensive players in Florida State and ACC history as a two-time ACC All-Defensive Team selection and the ACC Defensive Player of the Year as voted on by the media in 2010 and as a unanimous selection by all 12 ACC coaching staffs in the 17th overall selection of the first round in the 2011 NBA Draft by the Washington Wizards where he began his professional career during the season started in 11 of 57 games last season during his second year as a member of the Washington Wizard s roster averaged 4.1 points per game and pulled down 3.2 rebounds per game for the Wizards season will mark his third season with the Wizards Michael Snaer One of the most decorated players in school history was the Most Valuable Player of the 2012 ACC Tournament lead the Seminoles to its first ACC Championship in program history in 2012 a member of was three NCAA Tournament teams during his career as a Seminole was a three-time All-ACC and two-time ACC All-Defensive Team selection was named to the All-ACC Second Team as a junior, to the All-ACC Third Team as a senior, to the All-ACC Freshman team and was named to the 2013 Lefty Driesell Defensive All-American Team is most recognized as the all-time NCAA leader with six career buzzer-beating, game-winning shots during his career played in the 2013 NBA Summer League with the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Los Angeles Lakers will play with an Italian League team, Enel Brindisi for the season Isaiah Swann A four-year letter winner (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) who was a member of three NIT teams during his career under head coach Leonard Hamilton scored with 1,053 career points...made an NIT and near-school-record nine 3-point field goals against Mississippi State in the quarterfinal round of the 2007 MasterCard NIT...his performance from beyond the arc allowed him to score a career-high 31 points...averaged a career-high 10.3 points per game as a junior...played in the NBA Developmental League with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers as well as in Germany, Israel, the Dominican Republic and Turkey will play for the Royal Hali Gaziantep team in the Turkey Basketball League in averaged 13.6 points per game, 3.1 apg and 3.8 rpg last season in the Turkey Basketball League will play for the NY Phantoms in Germany for the season Al Thornton One of the greatest players in school history...earned All-America Third-Team honors by the Associated Press, was an All-ACC First-Team selection and voted as the ACC Player of the Year runner-up as he enjoyed one of the top senior years in school and ACC history during the season...played four years of varsity basketball (2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007) at Florida State for head coach Leonard Hamilton a unanimous selection to the All-ACC First-Team to become only the third Seminole (also Bob Sura in and Tim Pickett in ) in history to be named to the All-ACC First-Team...named to the All-ACC Tournament Second-Team and to the 2006 Colonial Classic All-Tournament team...the Most Valuable Player of the 2006 Colonial Classic...a finalist for the Wooden, Naismith and Rupp Awards as the nation's best collegiate player in 2007 the 14th overall selection of the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2007 NBA Draft as he became only the second NBA Draft Lottery pick in school history has played in the NBA for the Clippers, the Washington Wizards and the Golden State Warriors also played professionally for the Guayama Wizards of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional in Puerto Rico in 2012 last played for the Zhejiang Guangsha Lions for the season began the season averaging 27.4 ppg and 9.5 rpg in eight games played for the Lions

6 Von Wafer An early entry candidate for the 2005 NBA Draft after playing two seasons under head coach Leonard Hamilton at Florida State (2004 and 2005) one of the top 3-point shooters in the ACC during his career, he made point field goals in 61 games for a 1.8 per game average...made his career-high of seven 3-point field goals in scoring a career-high 30 points as he played the best game of his 61-game Seminole career against No. 3 ranked Wake Forest averaged 10.1 points per game during his career has played for seven teams over the course of his six year NBA career drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in the second round of the 2005 NBA Draft after leaving school as a draft eligible sophomore has played for Houston, Dallas, Boston and most recently Orlando during the season played part of the season for Olympiakos in Greece also has played in Italy during his professional career will play professionally during the season with the Xinjiang Flying Tigers in China last played for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers in China during the season 26.4 points per game, 3.4 assist and 3.1 rebounds per game in 34 games played last season for Xinjiang Adam Walesowski A four-year member of the Seminoles basketball team (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005) with his final three seasons coming under the tutelage of head coach Leonard Hamilton scored 668 career points for a 5.6 points per game average and pulled down 471 career rebounds for a 3.9 rebounds per game average for his career.helped Florida State defeat eight nationally ranked teams with at least one victory over a nationally ranked team in each of his four varsity seasons...one of those victories over a nationally ranked team came against No. 1 ranked Duke in the first victory over the nation's No. 1 ranked team in school history has played in Slovakia, Cyprus, Germany, France and the Czech Republic during his professional career Last played in Dusseldorf, Germany where he put contributed 13.3 points per game and 6.2 boards will play in Ludwigsburg, Germany for the season. (Please note that this is an ever-changing list with additions and changes welcome at any time. Please contact Chuck Walsh at cwalsh@fsu.edu is you have any questions, comments, additions or changes that you would like to see made to the list).