Rosell Ellis

Rosell Ellis

Personal information
Born	(1975-02-19) February 19, 1975 Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Listed height	199 cm (6 ft 6 in)
Listed weight	95 kg (209 lb)
Career information
High school	Rainier Beach (Seattle, Washington)
College	USU Eastern (1993–1995) McNeese State (1995–1997)
NBA draft	1997: undrafted
Playing career	1997–2011
Position	Small forward / power forward
Career history
1997	Deportivo Roca
1997–1999	Des Moines Dragons
1999–2001	Yakima Sun Kings
2001	Chicago Skyliners
2001	Pop Cola Panthers
2002	Coca-Cola Tigers
2002–2003	Yakima Sun Kings
2003	Great Lakes Storm
2003	Barangay Ginebra Kings
2003–2004	ASPAC Hewlett-Packard Jakarta
2004	Barangay Ginebra Kings
2004–2005	Perth Wildcats
2006	Yakima Sun Kings
2006	Cocodrilos de Caracas
2006–2007	South Dragons
2007	Alaska Aces
2007–2009	Townsville Crocodiles
2009	Alaska Aces
2009–2010	Al Ittihad Jeddah
2010–2011	Townsville Crocodiles
Career highlights and awards
SPL champion (2010) PBA champion (2007 Fiesta) Best Import of the Conference (2007 Fiesta) CBA champion (2000, 2006) 2× CBA All-Star (2001, 2003) All-NBL Third Team (2005) Southland Player of the Year (1997) First-team All-Southland (1997)

Rosell Ellis (born February 19, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player.

High school and college

From 1993–1995, he played college basketball at the College of Eastern Utah. In 1995, he then moved to McNeese State of the NCAA Division I for his junior and senior years. During his senior year at McNeese State, Ellis averaged 18.5 points per game on almost 67 percent shooting.

Professional

After his college career, Ellis joined Deportivo Roca of Argentina for the 1997 season. Later that year, he joined the Des Moines Dragons of the now-defunct International Basketball Association for the 1997–98 season, becoming the league's fifth-leading scorer. He attracted scouts to his games but had an incident in January 1998. There were NBA scouts in the stands when Ellis lost his mind and put an IBA referee in a choke hold. According to Ellis, a referee, Bob Schoewe, was berating players as they lined up around the paint for free throws. Ellis snapped back at Schoewe, who denies insulting the players, and in turn gave Ellis a technical foul in retaliation. Ellis protested again and the ref called a second technical and ejected him from the game. Ellis ran to the scorer's table where Schoewe was reporting the ejection, leaped on the referee's back, and put Schoewe in a sleeper hold. A throng of coaches, players, referees, and security officers pulled Ellis away from Schoewe and brought him to the locker room. The IBA banned him for a year for this action. This action was after Latrell Sprewell's choking of his coach, thus Ellis was shunned by NBA scouts. Now, Ellis looks at this incident as one of his big misdeeds.

On October 2, 2000, he signed with the Detroit Pistons. However, he was waived on October 21.

Ellis joined the Perth Wildcats for the 2004–05 season as a late replacement for Jaron Brown, where he played both power forward and small forward. He was the best shooter in the NBL for that season, shooting 61% from the floor. He was named the Round 21 NBL Player of the Week in 2005. In the same season, he also collected the 2005 Gordon Ellis Medal, the Wildcats' highest individual player honour and the team's Best Defensive Player award. He set his NBL-career best 38 points and 15 rebounds vs Crocodiles on November 26, 2004. He finished the 2004–05 season with averages of 17.8ppg, 9.6rpg, 2.7apg and 2.0spg.

In October 2006, he signed with the South Dragons for the 2006–07 season. Ellis led the NBL in rebounding in 2007 by averaging 11.3 rebounds in 27 games. In March 2007, he joined the Alaska Aces. Later that year, he signed with the Townsville Crocodiles for the 2007–08 season. However, just two games into the season, he suffered a season-ending chest injury and returned to the United States for rehab.

In September 2008, he signed a new two-year deal with the Crocodiles. In March 2009, he re-joined the Alaska Aces. In July 2009, the second year of his two-year contract was terminated by the Crocodiles.

On December 15, 2010, he re-signed with the Townsville Crocodiles for the rest of the 2010–11 NBL season.

External links

• Profile at Eurobasket.com
• Crocs profile
• NBL stats
• PBA profile