Brent Steven Scott (born June 15, 1971, in Jackson, Michigan

Jackson, Michigan

Jackson is a city located along Interstate 94 in the south central area of the U.S. state of Michigan, about west of Ann Arbor and south of Lansing. It is the county seat of Jackson County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 33,534...

) is a retired American

United States

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 professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 player, formerly in the NBA. He played college basketball

College basketball

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 at Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

. Scott is a 6'10", 250 lb (113.4 kg). center

Center (basketball)

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.

Scott played 16 games with the Indiana Pacers

Indiana Pacers

The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. They are members of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association...

 during the 1996–97 NBA season, averaging 1.2 points and 0.6 rebounds per game. He has also played professionally in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, Spain

Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto

The Liga ACB, known as the Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in Spain. It was founded in 1956 with the name of Liga Nacional. The league changed its name to the current one in 1983. The league is rated as one of the three "A" level European...

, Italy

Serie A (basketball)

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 (for Olitalia Forli (1995-1996), Viola Reggio Calabria

Viola Reggio Calabria

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 (1998-1999, 2000-2001) and Snaidero Udine

Pallalcesto Amatori Udine

Snaidero Basketball is a prominent Italian basketball club based in Udine. It is also known as Snaidero Cucine Udine.-History:Its best finish so far is a 5th place in the Italian tournament in the 2005/06 season. The gold years for basketball in Udine were from 1965 to 1980, when the president and...

 (2001-2002)) and Greece

A1 Ethniki

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 (Gymnastikos S. Larissas (1994-1995), PAOK

PAOK BC

P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki B.C. is the professional basketball department of the Greek multi-sports club P.A.O.K., originally founded in 1926 and is based in Thessaloniki, Greece. The club has established a firm reputation in Greek sports, especially for its success in European leagues...

 (2002-03) and AEK Athens

AEK Athens BC

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 (2006-2007)). In 1999, he teamed with Manu Ginóbili

Manu Ginobili

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, Brian Oliver

Brian Oliver

Brian Darnell Oliver is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6'4" and 210 lb shooting guard out of Georgia Tech, he was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA in the 2nd round of the 1990 Draft...

 and Sydney Johnson

Sydney Johnson

Sydney Johnson is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach at Fairfield University for the Fairfield Stags men's basketball team. Previously, Johnson was the head coach at Princeton University from 2007 to 2011 where he led the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team to the...

to win a championship.

On June 25, 2007, Rice University announced that Scott would be an assistant basketball coach.

External links

• basketpedya.com
• nba.com
• NBA statistics @ basketballreference.com
• AEK player profile @ aek.com
• Interview with Brent Scott, by Marek Mosakowski @ 24sec.net