Retired - Retired after 2014 season
- Birthdate: 12/28/1984
- Drafted (NBA): Undrafted, 2007
- Pre-draft team: Clemson
- Country: USA
- Hand: Right
- Agent: -
March 13, 2011
Vernon Hamilton - 13 games, 36.8, mpg, 26.8 ppg, 8.5 rpg, 4.9 apg, 3.8 spg, 0.2 bpg, 3.2 TOpg, 45% FG, 26% 3PT, 59% FT
[...] After Lamizana left, Hamilton became the only import remaining - with nothing to play for by this time, there wasn't much point in getting another. had previously played for the Austin Toros and Dakota Wizards of the D-League, averaging over 13 points and 3 assists per game, and was statistically dominant in his short time in China. He seems like a good candidate for a redux next season.
November 15, 2010
83rd: - Austin Toros - Vernon Hamilton, Clemson
Hamilton was recently in training camp with the Detroit Pistons, his second such training camp stint in three years. That move prompted this exciting blurb:
Hamilton is a defensive minded point guard, formerly of Clemson. It helps to be defensive minded if you're playing at Clemson, and Hamilton was named to the ACC All-Defensive Team in 2006, averaging 12 and 3 that season. However, despite the defense, Hamilton is a bad shooter, very bad free throw shooter, and undersized for the NBA, who is also not a particularly good half court point guard. Nonetheless, he's doing OK in Europe, averaging 19.0 points and 2.9 assists in the Swiss league last season.
He did not make the Pistons roster, and was never going to. But it's quite the CV boost. And it's perhaps bizarre that said CV boost has only gotten him this far.
September 28, 2010
Hamilton is a defensive minded point guard, formerly of Clemson. It helps to be defensive minded if you're playing at Clemson, and Hamilton was named to the ACC All-Defensive Team in 2006, averaging 12 and 3 that season. However, despite the defense, Hamilton is a bad shooter, very bad free throw shooter, and undersized for the NBA, who is also not a particularly good half court point guard. Nonetheless, he's doing OK in Europe, averaging 19.0 points and 2.9 assists in the Swiss league last season. He can also now claim to have signed in the NBA twice; he once signed with the Cavaliers for training camp, but did not make the team. Not many can make that claim.
March 14, 2010
- Vernon Hamilton
Former Clemson guard and Cavaliers camp signee Hamilton started the year in Switzerland, where he averaged 19.0 points and 2.9 assists for SAM Basket Massagno before being released in November due to injury. He later signed in Ukraine with MBC Mykolaiv and averaged a further 6.7 points per game before being released again. Between the two, he shot 60% from the foul line.