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Chaz Carr (born August 30, 1982) is a former Jamaican professional
basketball player Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's ...
. He is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall weighs 182 pounds, and plays
point guard The point guard (PG), also called the one or the point, is one of the Basketball positions, five positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position and is usually the shortest player ...
. His last professional team was
Guaiqueríes de Margarita Guaiqueríes de Margarita is a professional basketball team based in La Asunción, Venezuela. The team currently plays in Venezuela's Liga Profesional de Baloncesto. The team has won the Venezuelan championships nine times. Current roster LPB t ...
in Venezuela's first division
Liga Profesional de Baloncesto The Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto, commonly known as the SPB, is the Venezuelan first division national professional basketball league. Founded in 1974 as the Liga Especial de Baloncesto, it adopted the name Liga Profesional de Baloncesto i ...
. In 2006, Carr appeared in the
Adriatic League The ABA League, renamed the ABA League First Division in 2017, is the top-tier regional men's professional basketball league that originally featured clubs from former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, ...
with
Geoplin Slovan Košarkarsko društvo Slovan, commonly referred to as KD Slovan or Slovan, is a basketball team from Ljubljana, Slovenia. History The founding of the club was the idea of Stane Urek, who in 1951 proposed the establishment of a basketball club in ...
.


High school career

Carr scored 1.273 points during his career at Manchester high school and left the school as its all-time leading scorer. He averaged 21 points per game as a junior and 22 points per game as a senior. In July 2017 he was named to the Manchester Sports Hall of Fame.


College career

Carr graduated from
Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...
in 2005, majoring in urban studies. He became the university's eighth all-time leader in scoring (1,406 points), fifth in three-pointers made (177) and 10th in field goals made (470).


Professional career

Besides playing professional basketball in
Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...
, Carr has played in
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
( Unia Tarnów, Polonia Warbud Warszawa), the
Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...
(
Águilas Cibaeñas The Águilas Cibaeñas (; ''Cibaoan Eagles'') is a professional baseball team in the Dominican Republic's Professional Baseball League (LIDOM), based in Santiago in the northern region of Cibao. Founded in , the team has won six Caribbean Series ...
),
Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...
(
KD Slovan Košarkarsko društvo Slovan, commonly referred to as KD Slovan or Slovan, is a basketball team from Ljubljana, Slovenia. History The founding of the club was the idea of Stane Urek, who in 1951 proposed the establishment of a basketball club in ...
),
Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
(
Kapfenberg Bulls Kapfenberg Bulls, also known simply as Bulls, is a professional basketball club that is based in Kapfenberg, Styria, Austria. The team plays in the Austrian Basketball Superliga. The Bulls have won seven national championships, four Austrian Cu ...
),
Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
(
Bremen Roosters SG Oslebshausen was a basketball club from Bremen, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its six ...
) and
France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
( Union Jeanne d'Arc Phalange Quimper). In August 2008, Carr signed with ÍR of the Úrvalsdeild karla. Due to the
Icelandic financial crisis Icelandic refers to anything of, from, or related to Iceland and may refer to: *Icelandic people *Icelandic language *Icelandic orthography *Icelandic cuisine See also * Icelander (disambiguation) * Icelandic Airlines, a predecessor of Icelandai ...
, ÍR released Carr from his contract in October 2008.


Jamaica national team

Carr has played for the
Jamaica national basketball team Jamaica national basketball team is governed by the Jamaica Basketball Association. The team had its best performance at the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship where it beat the two former world champions Brazil and Argentina. Outlook The team fi ...
on many occasions. His most noteworthy performance was at the
FIBA CBC Championship The CBC Championship or CaribeBasket is a FIBA-sponsored international basketball tournament where national teams from the Caribbean participate. These countries are members of the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC). The top three or four t ...
2006 where he helped
Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
win the tournament by averaging 14.6 points, 2.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game.


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1982 births Living people Boston University Terriers men's basketball players Guaiqueríes de Margarita players Jamaican men's basketball players Kapfenberg Bulls players Point guards Jamaican expatriate basketball people in the United States ÍR men's basketball players American men's basketball players {{Jamaica-basketball-bio-stub