Charlie Bell

Charlie Bell is a shooting guard for the Milwaukee Bucks who has been a backup for most of his career. Bell started his career by splitting the 2001-2002 season between the Dallas Mavericks and the Phoenix Suns where he played just seven games. From 2003 until 2006 Bell played in the Italian league but returned to the NBA with the Bucks has played in Milwaukee ever since.

Bell is married and has two children. His wife’s name is Kenya and his daughter is named Casey and son is Charlie IV.

Born in Flint, Michigan, Bell is the town’s career points leader and in his senior season finished runner up as the State’s Mr. Basketball following the 1996-97 season. He was also named a Parade All-American that season.

Bell has a very distinct pre-game diet and says that he only eats pasta as a lunch or dinner before a game. He picked up the habit while playing in the Italian league. http://www.nba.com/playerfile/charlie_bell/bio.html

In the 2010 playoffs, the Milwaukee Bucks squared off against the Atlanta Hawks in the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals. The Bucks lost the first two games of the series but managed to rally for a three games to two lead, but could not close the series out and lost the final two games, being bounced from the playoffs in the first round.

Charlie Bell played extremely sparingly in the series, appearing in just three games and registering just eight minutes. Bell took just two shots and committed two personal fouls http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bellch01.html.

Bell spent the 2009/10 season alternating between a starting role and the bench. When Luc Mbah a Moute was out of action with an injury Bell became the starting shooting guard but was returned to the bench when Moute was healthy once again.

In all, Bell appeared in 71 total games and started 39 of them. He averaged 6.5 points per game, 1.9 rebounds per contest and 1.5 assists. With his assistance the Bucks made their first playoff appearance in four seasons and they posted their best regular season win total in almost 10 years. http://www.bucksuniverse.com/history/year_by_year_records.htm

Bell finished his fourth season with the Bucks with his arguably best statistics. Bell played in 70 games and started 23 of them. Bell scored a career high 21 points twice in this season and scored 20 points another two times.

Bell did miss some time and played sparingly in other games because of a nagging ankle injury that didn’t sideline him for a long time but bothered him well into the 2009 portion of the season.