Victor Alexander

Victor Joe Alexander (born August 31, 1969) is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Golden State Warriors in the first round (17th pick overall) of the 1991 NBA Draft after playing collegiately at Iowa State University. At 6'9" and 265 pounds, he played as a center and power forward.

Alexander played five seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), mainly for the Golden State Warriors from 1991 to 1995. The Warriors traded him to the Toronto Raptors with other players for B. J. Armstrong in 1995, but he never officially played for the Raptors. Toronto traded him first to the Cleveland Cavaliers (he failed the physical and the trade was rescinded) and eventually to the New York Knicks. The Knicks waived Alexander before he played for them. He had a brief stint with the Detroit Pistons during the 2001–02 season. In his NBA career, Alexander played in a total of 286 games and averaged 8.9 ppg.^[1]

Alexander also played overseas for top teams in Greece (AEK Athens BC and PAOK BC), Israel (Maccabi Tel Aviv), Spain (TAU Ceramica) and Russia (CSKA), participating in many Euroleague games. His performances with CSKA earned him an All-Euroleague First Team selection in 2003.

College career

Victor Alexander was considered one of the top low-block scorers in Iowa State history. The burly center was named a first-team all-Big Eight choice in 1989 and 1991 and his 1,892 career points rank fourth all-time in school history. He led the Big Eight in field goal percentage in 1991 at 65.9 percent. As of 2010, Alexander still holds the Iowa State University career highest field goal percentage record (min. 200 made), at 61.1 percent (778 out of 1,274).^[2]

Collegiate Statistics
Year	Games	Min	FG	FGA	3PA	FT	FTA	REB	PF	AST	TO	BLK	STL	PTS
1987–88 Iowa St	23	120	18	30	0	3	6	32	19	4	7	4	2	39
1988–89 Iowa St	29	923	240	412	0	97	149	255	86	35	81	30	26	577
1989–90 Iowa St	28	887	226	386	1	100	173	243	64	43	35	34	15	552
1990–91 Iowa St	31	1020	294	446	0	136	201	280	78	37	85	51	35	724
Total	111	2950	778	1274	1	336	529	810	247	119	208	120	78	1892

Career statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	PIR	Performance Index Rating
Bold	Career high

Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season. He also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.

Euroleague

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	PIR
2000–01	Tau Ceramica	22	20	30.0	.400	.250	.740	7.0	.7	.9	.4	13.5	14.5
2002–03	CSKA Moscow	15	14	30.4	.415	.308	.674	6.6	1.1	1.1	.1	16.6	16.0
2003–04	CSKA Moscow	19	15	18.2	.525	.500	.689	3.2	.3	.7	.3	9.3	7.9
Career		56	49	26.1	.460	.370	.707	5.6	.7	.9	.1	12.9	12.7

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1991–92	Golden State	80	28	16.9	.529	.000	.691	4.2	.4	.6	.8	7.4
1992–93	Golden State	72	59	24.3	.516	.455	.685	5.8	1.3	.5	.7	11.2
1993–94	Golden State	69	39	19.1	.530	.154	.527	4.5	1.0	.4	.5	8.7
1994–95	Golden State	50	29	24.7	.515	.240	.600	5.8	1.2	.6	.6	10.0
2001–02	Detroit	15	0	6.5	.353	.000	.500	1.9	.4	.0	.1	2.7
Career		286	155	20.1	.518	.286	.634	4.8	.9	.5	.6	8.9

Playoffs

Year	Team	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1992	Golden State	4	6.0	.600	.000	1.000	1.5	.3	.5	.0	1.8
2002	Detroit	1	3.0	.000	.000	.000	1.0	.0	.0	.0	0.0
Career		5	5.4	.500	.000	1.000	1.4	.2	.4	.0	1.4

References

External links

1991 NBA Draft

First round	Larry Johnson Kenny Anderson Billy Owens Dikembe Mutombo Steve Smith Doug Smith Luc Longley Mark Macon Stacey Augmon Brian Williams Terrell Brandon Greg Anthony Dale Davis Rich King Anthony Avent Chris Gatling Victor Alexander Kevin Brooks LaBradford Smith John Turner Eric Murdock LeRon Ellis Stanley Roberts Rick Fox Shaun Vandiver Mark Randall Pete Chilcutt

Second round	Kevin Lynch George Ackles Rodney Monroe Randy Brown Chad Gallagher Donald Hodge Myron Brown Mike Iuzzolino Chris Corchiani Elliot Perry Joe Wylie Jimmy Oliver Doug Overton Sean Green Steve Hood Lamont Strothers Álvaro Teherán Bobby Phills Richard Dumas Keith Hughes Isaac Austin Greg Sutton Joey Wright Žan Tabak Anthony Jones Von McDade Marcus Kennedy

EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer

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Final Four Era 1988 to present	1988: McAdoo 1989: Jamchi 1990: Kukoč 1991: Savić 1992: Danilović 1993: Teagle 1994: Martínez 1995: Sabonis 1996: Karnišovas 1997: Rivers 1998: Rigaudeau 1999: Rigaudeau 2000: Huffman 2001: Bodiroga (SuproLeague) / Ginóbili & Bennett & Alexander (EuroLeague) 2002: Ginóbili 2003: Bodiroga 2004: Parker & Vujanić 2005: Jasikevičius 2006: Solomon 2007: Papaloukas 2008: Bynum 2009: Holden 2010: Navarro 2011: Batiste 2012: Papanikolaou 2013: Spanoulis 2014: Rice 2015: Lojeski 2016: de Colo

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