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class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Listed weight</th><td class="infobox-data">112 kg (247 lb)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;">Career information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/NBA_draft" title="NBA draft">NBA draft</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1997_NBA_draft" title="1997 NBA draft">1997</a>: 2nd round, 55th overall pick</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Selected by the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Playing career</th><td class="infobox-data">1996–2008</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Position</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Center_(basketball)" title="Center (basketball)">Centre</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;">Career history<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;">1996–1997</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Newcastle_Falcons_(basketball)" title="Newcastle Falcons (basketball)">Newcastle Falcons</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;">1998</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Giants" title="North Melbourne Giants">North Melbourne Giants</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;">1999–2001</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Giants" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria Giants">Victoria Titans</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;">2002–2003</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Wollongong_Hawks" class="mw-redirect" title="Wollongong Hawks">Wollongong Hawks</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;">2004</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Giants" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria Giants">Victoria Giants</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;">2005–2007</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Breakers" title="New Zealand Breakers">New Zealand Breakers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;">2007–2008</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Townsville_Crocodiles" title="Townsville Crocodiles">Townsville Crocodiles</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Career highlights and awards</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NBL_Most_Improved_Player_Award" title="NBL Most Improved Player Award">NBL Most Improved Player</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBL_Best_Sixth_Man_Award" title="NBL Best Sixth Man Award">NBL Sixth Man of the Year</a> (1997)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/peppebe01.html">Stats</a> at <a href="/wiki/Basketball_Reference" class="mw-redirect" title="Basketball Reference">Basketball Reference</a></b> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q766986#P2685" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ben Pepper</b> (born 15 July 1975) is a retired Australian <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a> player, who played twelve seasons in the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(Australia)" title="National Basketball League (Australia)">National Basketball League</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NZ_Herald_10410216_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZ_Herald_10410216-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Professional_career">Professional career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ben_Pepper&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Professional career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ben Pepper, a 213-centimetre-tall (7 ft 0 in) <a href="/wiki/Center_(basketball)" title="Center (basketball)">center</a> began his pro career in the NBL with the <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_Falcons_(basketball)" title="Newcastle Falcons (basketball)">Newcastle Falcons</a> in the 1996 NBL season. After an impressive debut season he would go on to win the <a href="/wiki/NBL_Most_Improved_Player_Award" title="NBL Most Improved Player Award">NBL's Most Improved Player</a> and the <a href="/wiki/NBL_Best_Sixth_Man_Award" title="NBL Best Sixth Man Award">NBL's Sixth Man of the Year</a> awards in 1997. </p><p>Pepper then decided to try his luck with the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> and entered into the <a href="/wiki/1997_NBA_draft" title="1997 NBA draft">1997 NBA draft</a>. He was selected by the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> with the 56th overall pick, one of four Australians drafted that year. Pepper was one of three 7-foot-tall Australian centres selected in the 1997 draft, the others being <a href="/wiki/Chris_Anstey" title="Chris Anstey">Chris Anstey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Rogers_(basketball)" title="Paul Rogers (basketball)">Paul Rogers</a>. A fourth Australian, <a href="/wiki/C._J._Bruton" title="C. J. Bruton">C. J. Bruton</a>, was also selected in the draft.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Celtics never signed Pepper and he came back to the NBL and played for the <a href="/wiki/North_Melbourne_Giants" title="North Melbourne Giants">North Melbourne Giants</a> in the 1998 season. After the season the Giants merged with cross-<a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a> rivals the <a href="/wiki/South_East_Melbourne_Magic" title="South East Melbourne Magic">South East Melbourne Magic</a> to become the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Giants" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria Giants">Victorian Titans</a> where he became one of the most dominant centres in the competition. He narrowly missed out on an NBL championship when the Titans were defeated 2–1 in the 1998–99 NBL grand final series by the <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_36ers" title="Adelaide 36ers">Adelaide 36ers</a>. </p><p>Pepper signed with the <a href="/wiki/Wollongong_Hawks" class="mw-redirect" title="Wollongong Hawks">Wollongong Hawks</a> for the <a href="/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_NBL_season" title="2001–02 NBL season">2001–02 NBL season</a> and spent two seasons there before switching back to Victoria to play for the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Titans" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian Titans">Victoria Giants</a> in <a href="/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304_NBL_season" title="2003–04 NBL season">2003–04</a>. When the Giants folded after the 2004 season, he was signed up by the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Breakers" title="New Zealand Breakers">New Zealand Breakers</a> for the <a href="/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305_NBL_season" title="2004–05 NBL season">2004–05</a> and <a href="/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_NBL_season" title="2005–06 NBL season">2005–06</a> NBL seasons and was named Breakers MVP for the 2005–06 season. </p><p>After two seasons in New Zealand, Pepper was signed by the <a href="/wiki/Townsville_Crocodiles" title="Townsville Crocodiles">Townsville Crocodiles</a>. In his first year with the Crocs he had the fifth-best field goal percentage in the league, shooting at 58.2%. He retired from the NBL after the <a href="/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308_NBL_season" title="2007–08 NBL season">2007–08 season</a>. </p><p>Despite being a dominant player in the NBL for numerous years Ben Pepper rarely played for the <a href="/wiki/Australia_men%27s_national_basketball_team" title="Australia men's national basketball team">Australian Boomers</a>. In 1997, he was a member of the gold medal-winning Australian team at the <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Under-21_World_Championship" title="FIBA Under-21 World Championship">FIBA Under-21 World Championship</a> held in Melbourne. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ben_Pepper&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-NZ_Herald_10410216-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-NZ_Herald_10410216_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRichard_Boock2006" class="citation web cs1">Richard Boock (11 November 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/australian-nbl/news/article.cfm?c_id=685&objectid=10410216&pnum=0">"Basketball: Pepper just too big for the green"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Zealand_Herald" title="The New Zealand Herald">The New Zealand Herald</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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J. 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