Demetri McCamey

Demetri McCamey, Jr. (born February 21, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Austin Spurs of the NBA G League.

His prior professional experience includes time with the NBA Development League's Erie BayHawks, Rio Grande Valley Vipers and Fort Wayne Mad Ants, as well as time abroad with Hapoel Jerusalem, Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi, Oita Heat Devils and Cairns Taipans.

His 254 assists in 36 games resulting in a 7.06 assist per game average eclipsed Deron Williams' 264 in 39 games (6.77 average) posted during the 2004–05 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

He was part of a 2005 Chicago area sophomore class that was considered to be the best in the history of the state of Illinois.

It included Derrick Rose and his St. Joseph's teammate Turner.

Isiah Thomas is St. Joseph's most famous basketball alum, but McCamey was at the time mentioned as the potential next great St. Joseph's product.

As a junior, he and Turner attended 2005 Midnight Madness with the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team.

At the beginning of his junior season, Chicago Tribune named him to its annual top Chicago metropolitan area basketball players list, and it ranked St. Joseph number three in the area.

The team went to the state sectional final before its season ended with a 75–72 sectional final loss to Proviso East High School.

After his junior season, he was considered one of the top 25 prospects in the country in his class according to one scout, and he was given special mention by the Chicago Tribune and honorable mention by the Associated Press for all-state honors.

During his senior season, his team was listed second to Rose's Simeon Career Academy in the preseason Tribune Chicago area high school basketball team rankings.

That season, he was named to the second-team Associated Press 2006–07 Class AA all-state team, a day before Rose's Simeon eliminated Turner's St. Joseph in the Illinois Class AA supersectional.

McCamey and Turner finished sixth and third to Rose in the Illinois Mr. Basketball voting, and the Chicago Tribune chose both of them as first team All-state selections along with Rose.

He was also a first team selection by Chicago Sun-Times, Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette and Illinois Basketball Coaches Association.

McCamey was ranked as the #10, #11 and #10 point guard in the nation as a high school senior by ESPN, Rivals.com, and Scout.com respectively.

The class of 2007 was compared to the Chicago area class of 1979 that included Thomas, Terry Cummings, and Darrell Walker as well as the class of 1998 that included Quentin Richardson, Corey Maggette, Frank Williams, Bobby Simmons, Michael Wright.

McCamey was considered the second best area prospect after Rose.

As a sophomore, he led the 2008–09 team in scoring average, and he was chosen as a third team 2008–09 All-Big Ten Conference player by both the coaches and the media.

During his junior season, he led the big ten in assists per game.

He holds the Illinois single-season assist/game (7.06) and single-game assists (16) records.

When McCamey posted 31 points on February 7, 2008, against Indiana, it was the season high for the 2007-08 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team and the most by an Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball freshman in fourteen years.

During the 2008 Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament he made six three point shots in six attempts against Purdue, which set a Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament single-game record and tied the Illinois school single-game record for three point field goal percentage (most made with no misses).

He was chosen as a third team 2008–09 All-Big Ten Conference player by both the Big Ten coaches and the Big Ten media.

McCamey was also a National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division I District 7 All‐District second team choice.

Since the Big Ten Conference was its own district, this is equivalent to being named second team All-Big Ten by the NABC.

He led the 2008–09 Illinois Fighting Illini team in scoring average and was second in assists.

Following the 2009–10 All-Big Ten Conference regular season, he was named a first-team All-conference selection by both the coaches and the media.

He became the first Fighting Illini to average over seven assists per game over the course of a season during the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

On February 12, 2009, he scored the game-winning bank shot with 2.9 seconds remaining against Northwestern.

Although he only ranked fourth in the conference in assists, he had the highest assist average in conference games.

He played college basketball for the University of Illinois where he completed his senior season in 2010–11 and was the 2009–10 Big Ten assists champion (7.06) and the 2009–10 NCAA runner-up.

He played high school basketball with Big Ten Conference foe Evan Turner on the St. Joseph High School (in Westchester) basketball team.

He was a first-team All-state selection according to numerous publications.

As a senior, he was a third team All-Big Ten selection for the 2010–11 Big Ten season.

As a senior his assist numbers fell, but his shooting percentages rose.

McCamey was named co-Big Ten Conference Player of the Week for February 8, 2010.

On February 20, he recorded 16 assists, which is the fourth highest single-game total in Big Ten history.

This total set an Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball single-game record.

McCamey led the Big Ten in assists (7.06).

He was also tenth in scoring and eighth in steals.