Adam Caporn is an Australia

Australia

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n basketball

Basketball

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er currently playing in the National Basketball League

National Basketball League (Australia)

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 for the Perth Wildcats

Perth Wildcats

The Perth Wildcats are an Australian professional basketball team competing in the National Basketball League. The Wildcats are the only team in the league representing the state of Western Australia and are based in the state capital, Perth...

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Playing career

In 2000 and 2001, Caporn played basketball for at the Australian Institute of Sport

Australian Institute of Sport

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 before heading to the US to play college basketball for Saint Mary's College of California

Saint Mary's College Gaels men's basketball

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. After spending two seasons in the US, Caporn returned to Australia to play for the Wollongong Hawks

Wollongong Hawks

The Wollongong Hawks are a team competing in Australia's National Basketball League , based in the New South Wales city of Wollongong. They won the NBL championship in 2001 and finished as runners-up in 2005 and 2010...

 in the Australian NBL.

After three years with the Hawks, Caporn returned to Western Australia to play for the Perth Wildcats. Unfortunately in December, 2006, during his first season with the Wildcats, Caporn suffered a knee injury that required surgery. After the surgery he was ruled out for the remainder of the season and was replaced in the line-up by Damien Ryan

Damien Ryan

Damien Ryan is an Australian basketballer.Ryan attended Salesian College in Sunbury.After starring as a junior basketballer in Sunbury, Victoria, Ryan began his NBL career with the Canberra Cannons for the 1998/1999 season and he won the Rookie of the Year award for that season...

. On 26 April 2007, the Wildcats announced the re-signing of Caporn to a new two-year deal.

Trivia

• Caporn also plays for the Rockingham Flames in the West Australian State Basketball League.
• Caporn plays guitar in Perth band The Nancy Sikes! with his friend and author Craig Silvey
  Craig Silvey
  Craig Silvey is an Australian novelist and musician.Silvey grew up on an orchard at Dwellingup in the south-west of Western Australia. He currently lives in Fremantle.-Literary career:...
  
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• Caporn appeared on an episode of scrubs in 2004. He played in Turk's air band.