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Corey Lavelle Brewer (born January 2, 1975 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American basketball player, currently a point guard for Croatian team BC Zadar.

After graduating from West Memphis High School, attended and played basketball at Navarro Junior College (1994-95) and Carl Albert State College (1995-96) before transferring to the University of Oklahoma, where he played two seasons for coach Kelvin Sampson.[1] The 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), 190 lb (86 kg) point guard was named to the Under-22 USA Basketball Team in July 1997.[2]

Brewer was selected by the Miami Heat with the 51st overall pick in the 1998 NBA Draft, but spent the 1998-99 season in the Continental Basketball Association, playing for the Grand Rapids Hoops. He was signed by the Heat on September 29, 1999 but was waived a month later without playing in any NBA games. 1999-2000 found Brewer in the IBL's New Mexico Slam, after which he began playing for European teams such as Italian second division (Serie A2) teams Fila Biella (2000-2001), before moving to Spain's ACB, where he played for CB Sevilla (2001-2002) and CB Estudiantes (2002-2004). He then returned to Italy, playing for Caffè Maxim Bologna (2004-2005), moving on to Greece's Aris BC (2005-2006) and Belgium's TEC Spirou Charleroi

At age fifteen, Brewer survived a shotgun wound after reportedly trying to mediate a street altercation