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Robert Carter (basketball)

American basketball player (born 1994)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ25345863 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert Lawrence Carter Jr. (born April 4, 1994) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Wonju DB Promy of the Korean Basketball League (KBL). Born in Thomasville, Georgia, he played basketball for the high school of his hometown as well as Shiloh High School in Snellville, Georgia. Carter played collegiately for Georgia Tech and Maryland.

College career

In June 2014, after two seasons with the Yellow Jackets, Carter Jr. transferred to Maryland. As a red-shirt junior, he was all-Big Ten honorable mention by both the coaches and media. He posted 12.3 points and 6.9 rebounds per game and shot 55 percent from the field and 33 percent from behind the arc. After ensuring his graduation from college, Carter declared for the 2016 NBA draft and signed an agent, losing his final year of college eligibility.

Professional career

Carter went undrafted in the 2016 NBA draft.

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The public source identifies “Robert Carter (basketball)” as american basketball player (born 1994). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Robert, Carter and basketball.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2014, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-04-04. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Robert, Carter and basketball providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25345863. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2014 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Carter (basketball)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.