# Arvid Kramer

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{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1956)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name            = Arvid Kramer
| image           = 
| width           = 
| caption         = 
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1956|10|03}}
| birth_place     = [Fulda, Minnesota](/source/Fulda%2C_Minnesota), U.S.
| height_ft       = 6
| height_in       = 9
| weight_lb       = 220
| high_school     = Fulda (Fulda, Minnesota)
| college         = {{nowrap|[Augustana (South Dakota)](/source/Augustana_College_(South_Dakota)) (1975–1979)}}
| draft_year      = 1979
| draft_round     = 3
| draft_pick      = 45
| draft_team      = [Utah Jazz](/source/Utah_Jazz)
| career_start    = 1979
| career_end      = 1996
| career_number   = 41
| career_position = [Center](/source/Center_(basketball))
| years1          = 1979–1980
| team1           = [Anchorage Northern Knights](/source/Anchorage_Northern_Knights)
| years2          = {{nbay|1979|end}}
| team2           = [Denver Nuggets](/source/Denver_Nuggets)
| years3          = 1980–1981
| team3           = [Antonini Siena](/source/Mens_Sana_Basket)
| years4          = 1982–1983
| team4           = [Bayer Giants Leverkusen](/source/Bayer_Giants_Leverkusen)
| years5          = 1995–1996
| team5           = [Telekom Baskets Bonn](/source/Telekom_Baskets_Bonn)
| highlights      = 
*[NCC](/source/North_Central_Conference) Player of the Year (1978)
*3× First-team All-NCC (1977–1979)
}}
'''Arvid Kramer''' (born October 3, 1956) is an American former professional [basketball](/source/basketball) player, mostly known for being the first overall pick by the [Miami Heat](/source/Miami_Heat) of the [National Basketball Association](/source/National_Basketball_Association) (NBA) in the [1988 expansion draft](/source/1988_NBA_Expansion_Draft) at the age of 31, and furthermore being the only player to be selected in two expansion drafts and never playing for the teams that drafted him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hoopsanalyst.com/exp.htm |title=Hoopsanalyst |access-date=2004-07-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040708124356/http://www.hoopsanalyst.com/exp.htm |archive-date=2004-07-08 }}</ref> 
He is {{convert|6|ft|9|in}} tall and {{convert|220|lb}} and played at the [center](/source/Center_(basketball)) position during most of his basketball career.

==Professional career==

=== Anchorage Northern Knights (1979–1980) ===
Kramer was drafted by the [Utah Jazz](/source/Utah_Jazz) in the 3rd round (1st pick, 45th overall) of the [1979 NBA draft](/source/1979_NBA_draft) in his senior year. After the draft, the Jazz made a 2-for-1 trade involving [Bernard King](/source/Bernard_King), which left no room for Kramer on their roster, so they waived him. He played for the [Anchorage Northern Knights](/source/Anchorage_Northern_Knights) of the [Continental Basketball Association](/source/Continental_Basketball_Association) during the 1979–80 season.<ref>{{cite web |title=Arvid Kramer minor league basketball statistics |url=https://www.statscrew.com/minorbasketball/stats/p-kramearv001 |website=StatsCrew |access-date=June 13, 2021}}</ref>

=== Denver Nuggets (1980) ===
Kramer was signed to a 10-day contract by the [Denver Nuggets](/source/Denver_Nuggets) on February 28, 1980, and was later signed for the remainder of the season.<ref name=bbr/> He only played eight games with the Nuggets during the [1979–80](/source/1979%E2%80%9380_NBA_season) season.

=== Telekom Baskets Bonn (1995–1996) ===
The expansion [Miami Heat](/source/Miami_Heat) of the [NBA](/source/National_Basketball_Association) made Kramer the first overall pick in the [1988 expansion draft](/source/1988_NBA_Expansion_Draft) at the age of 31. The [Dallas Mavericks](/source/Dallas_Mavericks) wanted to make sure that their players [Uwe Blab](/source/Uwe_Blab), [Steve Alford](/source/Steve_Alford) or [Bill Wennington](/source/Bill_Wennington), who were left unprotected, would not be selected, so they offered the [Miami Heat](/source/Miami_Heat) the rights to Arvid Kramer and their first choice (No. 20) in the college draft (which later would turn out to become [Kevin Edwards](/source/Kevin_Edwards)).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/24/sports/miami-chooses-who-first.html|title = Miami Chooses 'Who?' First|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 24 June 1988|last1 = Goldaper|first1 = Sam}}</ref> He never played for the Heat.

Kramer later played for [Telekom Baskets Bonn](/source/Telekom_Baskets_Bonn) during the 1995–96 season. He retired as a player in 1996 and worked as a general manager for the Baskets in [Bonn, Germany](/source/Bonn%2C_Germany) from 1996 to 2004.<ref name="signonsandiego">{{Cite web|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050624/news_m1sc24kramer.html|title = The San Diego Union-Tribune – San Diego, California & National News}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Kramer's son [Dennis Kramer](/source/Dennis_Kramer) was also a basketball player. He was killed in a road traffic incident on 27 August 2023.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2023-08-29|date=2023-08-28|title=Ehemaliger Basketball-Profi Kramer stirbt bei Autounfall|url=https://www.zeit.de/news/2023-08/28/ehemaliger-basketball-profi-kramer-stirbt-bei-autounfall?utm_r|website=Zeit online}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>

==Career statistics==
{{NBA player statistics legend}}

===NBA===
Source<ref name=bbr>{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/k/kramear01.html|title=Arvid Kramer NBA stats|website=[Basketball Reference](/source/Basketball_Reference)|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|accessdate=28 July 2025}}</ref>

====Regular season====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
!Year
!Team
!GP
!MPG
!FG%
!3P%
!FT%
!RPG
!APG
!SPG
!BPG
!PPG
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| {{nbay|1978}}
| style="text-align:left;"| [Detroit](/source/1978%E2%80%9379_Detroit_Pistons_season)
| 8 || 5.6 || .318 || &ndash; || 1.000 || 1.5 || .4 || .0 || .6 || 2.0
{{S-end}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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Category:1956 births
Category:Living people
Category:American expatriate basketball people in France
Category:American expatriate basketball people in Germany
Category:American expatriate basketball people in Italy
Category:American men's basketball players
Category:Anchorage Northern Knights players
Category:Augustana (South Dakota) Vikings men's basketball players
Category:Basketball players from Minnesota
Category:Bayer Giants Leverkusen players
Category:Centers (basketball)
Category:Dallas Mavericks expansion draft picks
Category:Denver Nuggets players
Category:Mens Sana Basket players
Category:Miami Heat expansion draft picks
Category:People from Fulda, Minnesota
Category:Telekom Baskets Bonn players
Category:Utah Jazz draft picks
Category:20th-century American sportsmen

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