# LaVon Mercer

> LaVon Mercer is an American-Israeli former basketball player. He played at the center position. As a high school senior, he averaged 37.6 points, 30.1 rebounds, and 12 blocked shots per game, and was named a Parade All-American. Playing college basketball for the Georgia Bulldogs, he became the school's all-time career-leader in blocks and field-goal percentage, set its single-season shooting percentage record, and had the best SEC Tournament career field goal percentage of any SEC player. Drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in the 3rd round of the 1980 NBA draft, he instead played 14 seasons in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, where he was the MVP in 1981. He obtained Israeli citizenship, and also played for the Israeli national basketball team.

*American basketball player*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/lavon-mercer

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Basketball Player ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646))
- **Category:** Basketball Players
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1959-01-13
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 43.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 5.3 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 6.5 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 45.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.lavonmercer.org

## Sources
- [Мерсер, Лавон](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BD)
- [لاڤون ميرسير](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1)
- [LaVon Mercer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVon_Mercer)
- [LaVon Mercer](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVon_Mercer)
- [LaVon Mercer](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVon_Mercer)
- [לבן מרסר](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%9F_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%A8)
- [LaVon Mercer](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaVon_Mercer)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1777077)

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