Retired - Retired after 2022 season
- Birthdate: 04/04/1988
- Drafted (NBA): Undrafted, 2010
- Pre-draft team: Purdue
- Country: USA
- Hand: Right
- Agent: -
| Date | League | Transaction |
|---|---|---|
| 27th September, 2010 | NBA | Signed an unguaranteed one year minimum salary contract with Milwaukee. |
| 19th October, 2010 | NBA | Waived by Milwaukee. |
| 30th October, 2010 | D-League | Designated as a returning player by Fort Wayne Mad Ants. |
| 8th December, 2010 | D-League | Waived by Fort Wayne Mad Ants due to injury. |
| 28th December, 2010 | D-League | Re-acquired by Fort Wayne Mad Ants. |
| 22nd June, 2011 | Puerto Rico | Signed for the remainder of the season with Mets de Guaynabo. |
| 23rd September, 2011 | Germany | Signed a one year contract with Wurzburg. |
| 27th June, 2012 | Germany | Signed a one year contract with EWE Baskets Oldenburg. |
| 17th June, 2013 | Germany | Re-signed by EWE Baskets Oldenburg to a one year contract. |
| 26th June, 2014 | Germany | Re-signed by EWE Baskets Oldenburg to a two year contract. |
| 3rd May, 2016 | Germany | Signed a one year extension with EWE Baskets Oldenburg. |
| 22nd July, 2017 | Lithuania | Signed a one year contract with Lietuvos Rytas. |
| 2006 - 2010 | Purdue (NCAA) |
| July 2010 | Indiana Pacers (Summer League) |
| September 2010 - October 2010 | Milwaukee Bucks (NBA) |
| October 2010 - June 2011 | Fort Wayne Mad Ants (D-League) |
| June 2011 - July 2011 | Guaynabo (Puerto Rico) |
| September 2011 - June 2012 | Oliver Baskets Wurzburg (Germany) |
| July 2012 | Indiana Pacers (Summer League) |
| June 2012 - June 2017 | EWE Baskets Oldenburg (Germany) |
| July 2014 | Houston Rockets (Summer League) |
| July 2017 - present | Lietuvos Rytas (Lithuania) |
July 2, 2014
Chris Kramer - Kramer has long been in the NBA conversation, and has signed contracts with the Bucks in the past. It's been a while since then, 2010, although Kramer has done enough to keep himself on the NBA's radar in that time. On the face of it, it is hard to see why - a 6'3 26 year old defensive combo guard who can't shoot and has every single facet of his offensive game in question at this level. But then you see his athleticism, tenacity and relentless defensive pressure, and it starts to make some sense. Kramer keeps coming back because he is the type of player a coach wants to coach, and the kind of player a team so badly wishes its projectable 6'7 long and athletic wings would channel. But Kramer can never be a 6'7 long and athletic wing, and so it will never work out. Mind you, he's got more chance than Aaron Craft.
October 1, 2010
Kramer has worked out for many teams this summer, and went to summer league with the Pacers, where he totalled 32 minutes, 8 points, 6 rebounds and 7 fouls in 2 games. At that time, I wrote this about him:
Kramer is an extremely strong 6'3 defensive specialist with no discernible offensive talent whatsoever, who really should have played football instead. He was a great fit for a big program in the college game, but he'll be far less great in the professional arena, where the players get harder to defend. It would be a great thing for the fan's perspective to see him do well, for the Purdue graduate is a local boy, but unfortunately, Kramer is let down by his own face. He's just too good looking for me to root for anything other than his abject failure.
His problem, succinctly yet fairly, is that he can't make a shot. Kramer is tough, smart, gritty, strong, defensively aggressive and defensively tenacious, but offensively, he can't dribble, shoot, create or pass. Kramer has not got a good set jumpshot, can do nothing off the dribble, can't finish around the basket, and can't get there either. He averaged only 6.5 points, and while he again does the little things well - moves the ball, makes the extra passes, only took good shots, shot a good percentage - he also can't contribute the big things. Is there room in the NBA for a player like that? Yes, always, but not when they're 6'3.
July 6, 2010
Chris Kramer
Kramer is an extremely strong 6'3 defensive specialist with no discernible offensive talent whatsoever, who really should have played football instead. He was a great fit for a big program in the college game, but he'll be far less great in the professional arena, where the players get harder to defend. It would be a great thing for the fan's perspective to see him do well, for the Purdue graduate is a local boy, but unfortunately, Kramer is let down by his own face. He's just too good looking for me to root for anything other than his abject failure.