Rodney Buford
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1977 (48 years old)
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Rodney Alan "The Sheriff" Buford, (born November 2, 1977) is an American professional basketball player currently playing for the London Lightning of the National Basketball League of Canada.
Buford played collegiately for Creighton University and was selected by the NBA's Miami Heat in the second round (53rd overall) of the 1999 NBA Draft. After seeing limited playing time during his rookie season with the Heat, Buford moved to Italy starting the season with Basket Rimini, but joined the Philadelphia 76ers in December for the 2000–01 season. He then moved on to the Memphis Grizzlies, the Sacramento Kings, and finally the New Jersey Nets. Buford averaged 6.4 points per game in his NBA career.
Buford has also played overseas for the Greek European giant Panathinaikos BC during the 2002–03 season. He started the 2006–07 season in the Euroleague with the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball club from Israel, but he was released in December due to discipline violations and poor form. After a few months, it was discovered that he had failed a drug test during his time in Maccabi Tel Aviv, his third violation in his career. He recently played for the Ukrainian team Azovmash Mariupol, a team for which he played the 2005–06 season, after being banned by FIBA for testing positive in use of cannabis before a Euroleague game while still playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv. Consequently he left the team in February 2007 after playing just one game. In March 2009 he played two games in Lebanon for Al Riyadi.
At the start of the 2009–10 season, he moved to Eisbären Bremerhaven of Germany's highest division Basketball Bundesliga. On 24 December 2009, Buford traveled to the US to attend to family business. He agreed to return in early January, but was not on the plane with which he was scheduled to arrive. All attempts by the team to contact him were unsuccessful and his contract was dissolved on 11 January 2010.
On September 19, 2011, it was announced that Buford had signed a deal with the Halifax Rainmen of the National Basketball League of Canada to play for the 2011-12 season. However, on November 14, the Rainmen traded him to the London Lightning for Tyrone Levett.
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 Miami Heat | 1999-2000 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Philadelphia 76ers | 2000-2001 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Memphis Grizzlies | 2001-2002 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Panathinaikos BC | 2002-2003 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Sacramento Kings | 2003 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Pallacanestro Virtus Roma | 2003-2004 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Dakota Wizards | 2004 | Permanent | - | - | |
| Sacramento Kings | 2004 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Sioux Falls Skyforce | 2005-2006 | Permanent | - | - | |
 BC Azovmash | 2006 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Maccabi Tel Aviv BC | 2006 | Permanent | - | - | |
| BC Azovmash | 2007-2008 | Permanent | - | - | |
 Eisbären Bremerhaven | 2009 | Permanent | - | - |
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