Jerel Blassingame is an American professional basketball

Basketball

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 player. He is 1.77m in height and plays at point guard

Point guard

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Amateur career

Blassingame played at Redirection High School in Newark, New Jersey, before attending Los Angeles City College, where he helped the team win a California state championship in 2002-03. He was named MVP of the state tournament, and was an All-Southcoast Conference selection that year.

He later transferred to UNLV, where he averaged 11.2 ppg and 6.6 assists in his junior season (2003–04). In his senior year, he averaged 8.9 ppg and 5.5 apg.

Pro career

Before beginning his career in Finland, Blassingame played with Maccabi Rishon LeZion in the Israeli League. He has also played in the Swedish Obol Basketball League, with the Solna Vikings

Solna Vikings

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. Prior to his career with Solna, he played with ENAD

ENAD

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 in the Cypriot League

Cyprus Basketball Division 1

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 and AEK Athens BC

AEK Athens BC

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 in the Greek League

A1 Ethniki

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. For the 2009-2010 season, he was the starting point guard for BC Odessa

BC Odessa

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 in Ukraine. In the season 2010/2011 JBlass is a key-player in Energa Czarni Słupsk, the leader of the Polish Basket League. The winter season Energa Czarni Słupsk finished with the result 10-1 (win-loss), JBlass averaged 12.4 ppg and 6.2 apg. In August 2011 he signed with Asseco Prokom Gdynia.