Javier Carter

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Javier Carter

| image = ¡Hebraica Macabi campeón! - - 52940957386 (Carter).jpg

| image_size = 250px

| caption =

| position = Power forward / center

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 8

| weight_lb = 245

| league = B.League

| team = Shiga Lakes

| number = 32

| nationality = Panamanian / American

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1991|5|20}}

| birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio{{Cite web|url=https://usajaguars.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/javier-carter/4942|title=Javier Carter – Men's Basketball|website=University of South Alabama Athletics}}

| highschool = Parish Episcopal School
(Dallas, Texas)

| college = South Alabama (2009–2013)

| draft_year = 2013

| career_start = 2013

| career_end =

| years1 = 2013–2014

| team1 = Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto

| years2 = 2014–2015

| team2 = CS Gravenchon Basket

| years3 = 2015–2016

| team3 = Bakersfield Jam

| years4 = 2016

| team4 = Panteras de Costa del Este Panama City

| years5 = 2016–2017

| team5 = Club Atlético Welcome

| years6 = 2016–2017

| team6 = Caballos de Coclé Aguadulce

| years7 = 2016–2017

| team7 = Soles de Mexicali

| years8 = 2017–2018

| team8 = CD Valdivia

| years9 = 2017–2018

| team9 = Club Deportivo Hispano Americano

| years10 = 2018–2019

| team10 = Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin

| years11 = 2018–2019

| team11 = Guaros de Lara

| years12 = 2019–2021

| team12 = Akita Northern Happinets

| years13 = 2021–2022

| team13 = Nagasaki Velca

| years14 = 2022–2023

| team14 = Passlab Yamagata Wyverns

| years15 = 2023–2024

| team15 = Akita Northern Happinets

| years16 = 2024–present

| team16 = Shiga Lakes

| highlights =

Venezuelan League champion (2018)

| medaltemplates =

}}

Javier Dione Carter (born May 20, 1991), nicknamed Air, is a Panamanian professional basketball player for Shiga Lakes in Japan.{{Cite web|url=https://northern-happinets.com/news/detail/id=14461|title=【新入団】ハビエル・カーター選手契約合意のお知らせ|website=秋田ノーザンハピネッツ}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.latinbasket.com/Panama/basketball.aspx|title=Panamanian Basketball, News, Teams, Scores, Stats, Standings, Awards – latinbasket|website=Eurobasket LLC}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.fiba.basketball/es/americup/2017/player/Javier-Carter|title=Javier CARTER at the FIBA Americup 2017|website=FIBA.basketball}}{{Cite web|url=https://basketball.realgm.com/player/Javier-Carter/Summary/20294|title=Javier Carter Player Profile, Bakersfield Jam, NCAA Stats, G League Stats, International Stats, Events Stats, Game Logs, Bests, Awards – RealGM|website=basketball.realgm.com}} Born in the United States, he has competed internationally with the Panama men's national basketball team.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latinbasket.com/newsDetails.asp?id=589653&cntry=Panama&title=Javier-Carter-inks-with-Akita-Northern-Happinets|title=Javier Carter inks with Akita Northern Happinets – latinbasket|website=Eurobasket LLC|access-date=2019-11-03|archive-date=2019-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806092805/https://www.latinbasket.com/newsDetails.asp?id=589653&cntry=Panama&title=Javier-Carter-inks-with-Akita-Northern-Happinets|url-status=dead}}

High school career

Carter played high school basketball at Parish Episcopal School of Dallas in Dallas, Texas.{{Cite web|url=http://johnnyjungle.com/forum/index.php?topic=1095.0|title = Javier Carter – PF – Parish Episcopal School – Dallas, TX – SOUTH ALABAMA}}

College career

After high school, Carter played college basketball at University of South Alabama, with the South Alabama Jaguars, from 2009 to 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://usajaguars.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/javier-carter/4942|title = Javier Carter – Men's Basketball}}

College statistics

| style="text-align:left;"| 2009–10

| style="text-align:left;"| South Alabama

| 32 ||17 ||15.4 || .473 || .000 || .732|| 3.50 ||0.22 || 0.44 || 0.97 || 4.19

| style="text-align:left;"| 2010–11

| style="text-align:left;"| South Alabama

| 28 ||16 ||16.4 || .414 || .000 || .732|| 3.82 ||0.36 || 0.39 || 1.04 || 5.25

| style="text-align:left;"| 2011–12

| style="text-align:left;"| South Alabama

| 27 ||20 ||23.6 || .457 || .000 || .765||5.04 ||0.67 || 0.74 || 2.67 || 6.11

| style="text-align:left;"| 2012–13

| style="text-align:left;"| South Alabama

| 29 ||24 ||24.3 || .564 || .500 || .627|| 6.66 ||0.59 || 0.93 || 2.48 || 7.10

|- class="sortbottom"

! style="text-align:center;" colspan=2| Career

!117 ||77 || 19.6 ||.479 || .200 ||.710 || 4.70 ||0.44 || 0.62 ||1.74 || 5.57

Professional career

On October 31, 2015, Carter was selected by the Bakersfield Jam in the fourth round of the 2015 NBA Development League Draft. His plays include the one-hand jam and the reverse alley-oop.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCYN_qL2nO0Quh0DkPqi9TA|title=Javier Carter|website=YouTube}}

On September 21, 2018, Carter signed with Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin of the Israeli National League.{{cite web|title=דשון פרימן שוחרר מקריית מוצקין, זר חדש חתם|url=https://www.one.co.il/Article/320886.html|work=ONE.co.il|access-date=August 24, 2019|date=September 21, 2018|language=he}} In 32 games played for Kiryat Motzkin, he averaged 18.9 points, 9.0 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.2 blocks per game, while shooting 41.5 percent from three-point range. Carter led Kiryat Motzkin to the 2019 Israeli National League Semifinals, where they eventually were eliminated by Hapoel Galil Elyon.

=Awards and honors=

2013–14 LEB Plata MVP week by week
Latinbasket.com All-Chilean Liga Nacional Honorable Mention (2018)

Personal

He is a son of Cecilio and Marcia Carter. His father is from Río Abajo, Panama.{{Cite web|url=https://www.critica.com.pa/deportes/javier-carter-quiere-dejar-su-huella-528495|title=Javier Carter quiere dejar su huella|date=September 16, 2018|website=Critica}} He is married (2019) to Kandace Carter.

Career statistics

class="wikitable"

style="background:#afe6ba; width:3em;"|†

|Denotes seasons in which Carter won an championship

= Regular season =

| align="left" |2013–14

| align="left" | Cáceres

| 32 || 19 || 20.7 || .583 || .395 || .738 || 5.56 ||0.47 || 0.56 || 0.94 || 8.94

| align="left" | 2014–15

| align="left" |Gravenchon

| || || || .585 || .434 || || 13.8 || || || 2.1 || 18.7

| align="left" | 2015–16

| align="left" | BAK

| 41 || 0 || 11.8 || .445 || .353 || .780 || 2.90 || 0.46 || 0.29 || 0.66 || 3.71

| align="left" | 2016

| align="left" | Panteras

| 1 || || 31.0 || .625 || .000 || .800 || 11.0 || 2.0 || 0.0 || 3.0 || 14.0

| align="left" | 2016–17

| align="left" | Soles/Cocle

| 19 || 7 || 17.5 || .589 || .000 || .667 || 4.74 || 1.21 || 0.84 || 0.47 || 7.05

| align="left" | 2016–17

| align="left" | Welcome

| 13 || || 28.7 || .526 || .333 || .718 || 8.4 || 1.2 || 0.8 || 1.2 || 13.4

| align="left" | 2017–18

| align="left" | Gallegos

| 30 || 28 || 26.7 || .542 || .412 || .722 || 8.00 || 1.00 || 0.70 || 1.07 || 12.57

| align="left" | 2017–18

| align="left" | Valdivia

| 26 || || 34.3 || .523 || .176 || .703 || 9.5 || 1.4 || 0.8 || 1.4 || 15.5

| align="left" style="background-color:#afe6ba; border: 1px solid gray" | 2018–19†

| align="left" | Guaros

| 15 || 15 || 24.2 || .630 || .500 || .655 || 8.13 || 0.53 || 0.60 || 1.27 || 10.07

| align="left" | 2018–19

| align="left" | Kiryat

| 32 || || 29.4 || .528 || .415 || .727 || 9.0 || 1.6 || 0.8|| 1.4 || 18.9

| align="left" | 2019–20

| align="left" | Akita

| 22 || 21 || 27.9 || .424 || .333 || .729 || 8.1 || 1.9 || 1.5|| 0.9 || 12.0

| align="left" | 2020–21

| align="left" | Akita

| 48 || 30 || 26.1 || .436 || .335 || .689 || 6.3 || 1.6 || 1.0|| 0.9 || 10.6

| align="left" style="background-color:#afe6ba; border: 1px solid gray" | 2021-22†

| align="left" | Nagasaki

|48||46||22.4||.586||.375||.721||6.6||0.9||1.0||1.0||14.0

| align="left" | 2022–23

| align="left" | Yamagata

|48||15||25.1||.487||.359||.773||6.0||1.9||0.7||1.0||13.6

= Playoffs =

|style="text-align:left;"|2013–14

|style="text-align:left;"|Cáceres

| 8 || || 24.3 || .481 || .412 || .800 || 7.8 || 0.4 || 0.6 || 1.1 || 11.1

|style="text-align:left;"|2017–18

|style="text-align:left;"| Gallegos

| 4 || || 27.5 || .538 || .200 || .500 || 6.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 1.3 || 12.5

=FIBA Senior Team Events=

| align="left" |2017

| align="left" | Americas World Cup Qualifier

| 11 || || 26.39 || .567 || .500 || .741 || 6.3 ||1.5 || 0.7 || 0.6 || 11.9

| align="left" | 2017

| align="left" | FIBA AmeriCup

| 3 || || 31.03 || .533 || .667 || .600 || 8.3 || 2.0 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 12.3

|- class="sortbottom"

! style="text-align:center;" colspan=2| Career

!14 || || 27.35 ||.558 || .524 ||.719 || 6.7 ||1.6 || 0.8 ||0.7 || 12.0

=Atlas challenge=

| align="left" |2016

| align="left" | USA

| || || || || || ||8.3 || || || 1.5 || 17

=Preseason games=

| align="left" |2019

| align="left" | Akita

| 3 || 2 || 21.6 || .833 ||.777 || 1.000||6.67 || 3.0|| 1.00 || 0.33 || 13.0

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