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Oscar Forman Position Power forward
CenterHeight 205 cm (6 ft 9 in) Weight 98 kg (216 lb) Team Wollongong Hawks Born January 16, 1982
Adelaide, AustraliaGames Played 312 Previous Clubs Adelaide 36ers (2001/02–2005/06)
New Zealand Breakers (2006/07–2009/10)Oscar Forman (born 16 January 1982 in Adelaide, Australia) is a basketball player who currently plays for the Wollongong Hawks in the Australian National Basketball League. Forman played for the Adelaide 36ers from 2001 until 2006, winning a championship in 2002, before moving to the Breakers at the end of the 2005-2006 season. While starting his career playing primarily the power forward/centre position, he has since been used more often in a small forward role as a specialist three-point shooter.
Oscar Forman played as a junior for the Sturt Sabres and represented the Sabres in the Central Australian Basketball League. He has won a championship with them in the 2004 season and won a Woollacott Medal in 2005. Other honours include being chosen as a member of the Australian team that competed at the 2003 World University Summer Games in Korea, and was also chosen for the Commonwealth Games in 2006, but did not get selected for the final team. He also led the NBL in three-point shooting % in the 2004-05 season, with an average of 47%.
In the 2007 and 2008 off-seasons, he played in New Zealand's National Basketball League for the Harbour Heat. In 2007, he signed a new three-year contract with the Breakers that will keep him based in Auckland until 2009/10.
In April 2010, Forman signed a contract with the Wollongong Hawks.[1]
Forman was awarded the 2010-11 NBL Most Improved Player award, capping off a successful move to Wollongong.
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Awards Preceded by
Anthony PetrieNBL Most Improved Player
2011Succeeded by
TBAAustralia squad – 2009 FIBA Oceania Championship – Silver medal 4 Dellavedova | 5 Gibson | 6 Ogilvy | 7 Ingles | 8 Newley | 9 Crawford | 10 Harvey | 11 Worthington | 12 Forman | 13 Baynes | 14 Martin | 15 Jawai | Coach: BrownWollongong Hawks current roster 2 Demos | 7 Forman | 10 Davidson | 12 Saville | 13 Martin | 22 Coenraad | 32 Mat Campbell (c) | 34 Behrendorff | 42 Gruber | 55 Delaney
Head coach: McLeod | Assistant coaches: Cooks | Flinn
Categories:- 1982 births
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- Adelaide 36ers players
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