Rawle Marshall - Guyanese-American professional basketball player
Written byTimes Magazine
Rawle Junior Kalomo Marshall (born 1982) is a Guyanese-American professional basketball player who last played for Shahrdari Gorgan of the Iranian Super League.
Marshall is a graduate of Detroit's Mackenzie High School in 2000, where he was salutatorian of his senior class. His favourite basketball player as a youth was Penny Hardaway.
Not selected during the NBA Draft 2005, Marshall has participated in several NBA Summer Leagues. His performances helped him to earn a one-year contract with the Dallas Mavericks on August 5, 2005.
He played with the Serbian club KK Hemofarm during the 2007–08 season. Marshall also played with Hemofarm in that season's EuroCup and the regional Adriatic League. His average was 17.3 points per game in the EuroCup and 15.7 points per game in the Adriatic League. With his team Hemofarm, he reached the last 16 in EuroCup, where they lost to later finalist Akasvayu Girona. He was also a finalist in the Adriatic league and Basketball League of Serbia, wherein in both matches, KK Partizan defeated Hemofarm.
He then shifted to the Croatian League club KK Cibona for the 2008 season, a club also of the regional Adriatic League and the top European-wide competition, the EuroLeague. He was honoured as the EuroLeague Round 7 MVP during the 2008 season. He joined the LNB Pro A club ASVEL in 2009. In August 2010, he joined PAOK.
In July 2011, he signed with BC Astana in Kazakhstan. In October 2013, he signed with CSU Asesoft Ploiești. On December 7, 2014, Marshall signed with Koroivos Amaliadas of Greece.