Abdul Joshua "Josh" Pittman (born July 14, 1976) is an American

United States

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 expatriate professional basketball player. He has played in numerous countries throughout his career and currently plays in Argentina

Argentina

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. Butler played college basketball at University of North Carolina at Asheville

University of North Carolina at Asheville

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 and was named the Big South Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

Big South Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

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 twice, in 1997 and 1998. He is a 6'6", 200-pound shooting guard

Shooting guard

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.

College

Pittman, a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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, stayed in his home state to play college basketball. He attended UNC Asheville between 1994–95 and 1997–98 after graduating from high school in 1994. Through his first two seasons he only accumulated approximately 400 points and had an otherwise typical college career. Then, in his junior

Junior (education)

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 season with the Bulldogs, Pittman averaged 18.4 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.8 steals per game. The Bulldogs won the regular season Big South Conference

Big South Conference

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 championship behind Pittman's league-leading scoring average, which was also the sixth-highest average in school history. In his senior

Senior (education)

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 season, he averaged 18.0 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.9 steals per game. For the first time in UNC Asheville history, the men's basketball team repeated as the regular season conference champions. Consequently, Pittman became just the second Big South player (at the time) to be named the conference player of the year twice. He finished his college career with 1,547 points—the most in the program's history—and his 175 steals were a then-school record as well.

Professional

Pittman never made it to the National Basketball Association

National Basketball Association

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, so he decided to play professionally overseas. From 1998 until December 2001 he played in Argentina

Argentina

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 for Peñarol de Mar del Plata. He then signed with Italy

Italy

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's Bignami Castelmaggiore in January 2002, for whom he played 18 games. Pittman headed back to Argentina after signing with Quilmes de Mar del Plata. Over the course of the next 10 years, he played for various squads in Argentina, Venezuela

Venezuela

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 and Mexico

Mexico

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. As of the 2011–12 basketball season, Pittman plays for Libertad de Sunchales

Libertad de Sunchales

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 in the Liga Nacional de Básquet, Argentina's First Division.

Achievements

• Big South Conference Player of the Year (1997, 1998)
• Big South 1st Team (1998)
• Latinbasket.com Argentinian LigaA All-Imports Team (2003, 2004, 2007)
• Argentinian League All-Stars Game -04 (MVP) (2005)
• Liga Sudamericana Champion (2004)
• Latinbasket.com All-Argentinian LigaA 2nd Team (2004)
• Latinbasket.com All-Argentinian LigaA 1st Team (2007)

• Argentinian LigaA All-Stars Game (2007)
• Argentinian Cup Winner (2006)
• Argentinian LigaA Regular Season Champion (2007, 2011)
• Argentinian LigaA Finalist (2007)
• Latinbasket.com All-Mexican LNBP Honorable Mention (2009)
• Argentinian LigaA All-Star Game (2011)