Demetri McCamey Jr. (born February 21, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Austin Spurs of the NBA G League.
His prior professional experience includes time with the NBA Development League's Erie BayHawks, Rio Grande Valley Vipers and Fort Wayne Mad Ants, as well as time abroad with Hapoel Jerusalem, Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi, Oita Heat Devils and Cairns Taipans.
He played college basketball for the University of Illinois where he completed his senior season in 2010–11 and was the 2009–10 Big Ten assists champion (7.06) and the 2009–10 NCAA runner-up.
Following the 2009–10 All-Big Ten Conference regular season, he was named a first-team All-conference selection by both the coaches and the media.
[3][4] As a junior, he and Turner attended 2005 Midnight Madness with the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team.
[15] He was also a first team selection by Chicago Sun-Times, Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette and Illinois Basketball Coaches Association.
[17][18][19] Sources: When McCamey posted 31 points on February 7, 2008, against Indiana,[20] it was the season high for the 2007-08 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team and the most by an Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball freshman in fourteen years.
[16] During the 2008 Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament he made six three point shots in six attempts against Purdue,[21] which set a Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament single-game record and tied the Illinois school single-game record for three point field goal percentage (most made with no misses).
[22] McCamey was also a National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division I District 7 All‐District second team choice.
[30] On February 20, he recorded 16 assists, which is the fourth highest single-game total in Big Ten history.
[39] He was recognized as an All-District first-team selection by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, making him eligible for the State Farm Division I All‐America teams.
[43] McCamey scored 30 points for the first time since his freshman season on December 8, 2010, against the Oakland Golden Grizzlies.
[51][52] McCamey was selected by the United States Basketball Writers Association to its 2010–11 Men's All-District Team.
[54] As a senior, his assist average fell from 7.1 to 6.1 per game, but his three-point shot and free throw percentages rose from his prior years.
His free throw percentage also recovered a bit in his senior season moving to 72.4% from 70.7% but still below his sophomore effort of 76.4%.
[56] On July 14, 2011, McCamey signed with Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi of the Turkish Basketball League.
[63] In November 2012, he was acquired by the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA Development League as an affiliate player of the Rockets.
On October 31, 2015, McCamey was selected by the Austin Spurs in the second round of the 2015 NBA Development League Draft.