Rick Hughes is an American professional basketball

Basketball

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 player.

He attended Thomas More College, in Kentucky

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.

Hughes went undrafted

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 in the National Basketball Association

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 but played 21 games for the Dallas Mavericks

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 in 1999

1999-2000 NBA season

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, averaging 3.9 points and 2.3 rebounds per game.

Hughes was the Eurobasket All-French Pro A Player of the Year in 2004. He also played in the French Pro A All-Star game the same year. The next season, he moved to Teramo in the Italian Serie A league. He started the season strong, but had some problems with his Achilles tendon and returned to the USA to fully recover. He played for Murcia (2005-06) in the Spanish LEB to show he was back in good shape.

In the 2006-07 season Hughes played in Spain

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 for Baloncesto León

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 of the LEB

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, where for the second year in a row, he took his team to the championship game, ultimately elevating both teams (Murcia and Leon) to the ACB. He returned again to Baloncesto León

Baloncesto León

Club Baloncesto León is a basketball team, based in León, Spain. It plays in the basketball Second division, the LEB.-Roster:-Early years :...

in 2009-10.

External links

• NBA stats @ basketballreference.com