Spencer Dunkley

{{Short description|British basketball player and coach (born 1969)}}

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{{Infobox basketball biography

|name = Spencer Dunkley

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|5 September 1969|df=y}}

| birth_place = Wolverhampton, England

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 11

| weight_lb = 230

| high_school = Newark (Newark, Delaware)

| college = Delaware (1989–1993)

| draft_year = 1993

| draft_round = 2

| draft_pick = 51

| draft_team = Indiana Pacers

| career_start= 1993

| career_end=2004

| career_position = Center

| career_number =

| years1 = 1993| team1 = Long Island Surf

| years2 = 1993–1994|team2 = Maccabi Tel Aviv

| years3 = 1994–1995|team3 = Avtodor Saratov

| years4 = 1995–1996|team4 = Optima Gent

| years5 = 1996|team5 = Connecticut Pride

| years6 = 1996|team6 = Limoges CSP

| years7 = 1996–1998|team7 = Besançon BCD

| years8 = 1998–1999|team8 = Scandone Avellino

| years9 = 1999|team9 = CB Valladolid

| years10 = 2000–2001|team10 = Lugano Tigers

| years11 = 2001|team11 = Scandone Avellino

| years12 = 2001–2002|team12 = Viola Reggio Calabria

| years13 = 2002|team13 = Aveiro Esgueira

| years14 = 2002–2003|team14 = Maccabi Haifa B.C.

| years15 = 2003–2004|team15 = London Towers

| cyears1 = 2009–2012

| cteam1 = Appoquinimink HS

| highlights =

  • First-team All-NEC (1993)

}}

Earl Spencer Dunkley (born 5 September 1969) is a British retired basketball player.

Biography

Earl Spencer Dunkley was born in Wolverhampton on 5 September 1969. He attended Parkfield High School in Wolverhampton before moving to the U.S. and settling in Newark, Delaware, where he studied at Newark High School and the University of Delaware, playing on the latter's basketball team.

Dunkley was selected by the Indiana Pacers of the NBA during the 1993 draft, becoming the first British basketballer to play in the NBA.{{cite news |title=Spencer Dunkley lives up to his promise |url=https://www1.udel.edu/PR/Messenger/02/1/spencer.html |access-date=2 January 2022 |work=University of Delaware Messenger |date=2002}} As a journeyman who played as a centre, he went on to play for teams in Belgium, England, France, Israel, Italy, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.S. before his retirement in 2004. He then returned to Delaware, where he coached the Appoquinimink High School basketball team from 2009 to 2012.

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