Background
He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Hunter played high school basketball at Richard J. Reynolds High School in his hometown of Winston-Salem. After high school he attended Hillsborough Community College in Dale Mabry, Hillsborough County, Florida for two years and became a part of the "s 2006 "Thad Five" recruiting class. After playing two seasons at Ohio State University with the Buckeyes, during which he managed to post the seventh-best single-season field-goal percentage in school history, he entered the 2008 National Basketball Association Draft, in which he was not selected.
Standing at 6 ft 8 in (203 m), he plays at the power forward or center positions. Hunter joined the Atlanta Hawks" summer league squad in the summer of 2008. In five summer league games, he posted 13.2 points per game, 2.0 assists per game, 1.2 steals per game, and led his team with 6.2 rebounds per game.
On August 11, 2008, the Hawks announced that they had signed Hunter to a contract.
Hunter was waived by the Hawks in January 2010. In 2012, after playing three months with the Ukrainian SuperLeague squad Azovmash Mariupol, he signed with the Spanish ACB League team Blancos de Rueda Valladolid.
On August 26, 2013, Hunter officially signed a one-year deal with the Italian League team Montepaschi Siena. On July 8, 2014, he signed a contract with the Greek League team Olympiacos.
In his first season with the team, in 2014-2015, Olympiacos advanced to the 2015 Final Four of the Euroleague, where they lost in the Euroleague Final game to the host team Real Madrid.
Olympiacos finished the season winning the 2014-2015 Greek League championship, Hunter"s first major title in his career, as they swept their arch rivals Panathinaikos, in the finals series of the Greek League playoffs.