Gregory Donovan Ostertag was born on the 6th March 1973, in Dallas, Texas USA and is a former player of basketball who played 11 seasons in the NBA, ten of them in the team of the Utah Jazz. Being 2.18 meters high, he played in the centre position. Both in the university and NBA, he took the unusual number of double zero. He played basketball professionally from 1995 to 2006.
How much is the net worth of Greg Ostertag? It has been reported by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $20 million, as of the data presented in the middle of 2017. Basketball is the main source of Ostertag’s fortune.
Greg Ostertag Net Worth $20 Million
After graduation from Duncanville High School, he joined the Kansas Jayhawks at the University of Kansas. He spent four years at this university, playing 137 games and showing the average statistics of 7.1 points, 5.6 rebounds and 0.3 passes per game.
He was selected 28th in the first round of the NBA Draft 1995 by the Utah Jazz. After the first season, he became the centre position holder, advancing his playing time from 11 minutes to 23 minutes. In the 1996 – 1997 season, Utah Jazz competed in the NBA Finals, where Greg’s best statistical performance was in the fifth game where he scored 13 points, picked up 15 rebounds and three blocks.
Ostertag was a member of Utah Jazz until 2004, and was then signed as a free agent with the team of the Sacramento Kings. In 2004-2005 season, his average playing time was limited to 9 minutes and his statistics dropped to 1.6 points and three rebounds. The following season, he returned to the franchise of Utah in August 2005, in trades involving five teams and thirteen players; he played 60 regular season games, and averaged 2.4 points and 3.8 rebounds. He ended his career at the end of the season.
In all, Greg played 756 regular season games, with the statistics of 3,512 points, 4,145 rebounds, 443 assists and 1,293 blocks, which meant he averaged 4.6 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game. He appeared in the play-offs in nine of the eleven seasons spent in the NBA, playing 89 games, scoring an average of 4.2 points and capturing 5.4 rebounds in 19 minutes per game. In 2011, he signed a contract with the Texas Legends in the NBA Development league, yet after 10 games he suffered an injury and ended his career.
Finally, in the personal life of Ostertag, he lives in Arizona with his wife Heidi and three children. He has a sister, Amy three years younger, who suffered diabetes from the age of six, and needed a transplant in 2002 as her kidneys had stopped working because of the illness. Ostertag, as the only brother, was the best candidate for a donation, which he did several months later. Although he became the first NBA player to give a kidney during his career, he is not the first player to have played in the league with a single kidney: Malik Rose had a kidney removed when he was a baby, Pete Chilcutt was born with only one kidney, and Sean Elliott played 87 games after receiving a kidney from his brother.
