Bernard Thompson
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| Player information | ||
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| birthday | August 30, 1962 | |
| place of birth | Phoenix , Arizona , United States | |
| size | 203 cm | |
| position | Small forward | |
| college | Fresno State | |
| NBA draft | 1984 , 19th Pick Portland Trail Blazers | |
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1980–1984 Fresno State Bulldogs ( NCAA ) 1984–1985 Portland Trail Blazers 1985–1988 Phoenix Suns 1988–1989 Houston Rockets 1989 Columbus Horizon ( CBA ) 1989–1990 Grand Rapids Hoops (CBA) 1990 Rockford Lightning (CBA) 1990–1991 Maccabi Haifa 1991–1992 Oklahoma City Cavalry 1992–1993 Tokyo Kumajei Gumi 1993 Mexico Aztecas 1993–1994 Oklahoma City Cavalry (CBA) 1994–1995 TVG Trier 1995–1996 Univ. de Concepcion 1996-2001 TBB Trier     
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| 2001–2002 UCSC Banana Slugs (NCAA Div III) 2002–2003 TBB Trier 2003–2005 Arizona Rhinos ( ABA ; AC)
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Bernard Thompson (born August 30, 1962 in Phoenix , Arizona ) is a retired American basketball player .
Career
Thompson studied from 1980 at California State University, Fresno , where he played for the college team Bulldogs in what was then the Big West Conference of the NCAA . This coincided with the most successful phase of the college's basketball team when it made it to the finals of the Big West championship tournament four times in a row and won it three times. In the following NCAA Division I Basketball Championship , except for a second round participation in 1982, they were eliminated in the first round. After losing in 1983 after extra time in the Big West championship finals, you were not qualified for the finals and took part in the National Invitation Tournament , which you could win in 1983. In a legendary 1984 NBA draft , in which four future members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame were selected, Thompson was selected early in the first round in 19th position by the Portland Trail Blazers.
In the NBA , Thompson played 206 games at Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns and Houston Rockets from 1984 to 1989. After engagements in Israel, Japan and Chile, he switched to the basketball Bundesliga in Germany for TVG Basketball from Trier during the 1994/95 season , where he made a significant contribution to staying up. From 1996 he was under contract with the Moselle townspeople for another five years, during which time he won the German Cup twice (1998, 2001). Thompson particularly distinguished his commitment and his attitude. The professional magazine Basketball wrote in 2000: "Even more important than the statistical proof of performance is the professionalism of the former NBA players." He scored a total of 3165 points in the Bundesliga.
Thompson worked as a trainer at the University of Santa Cruz , and in the 2002/03 season at TBB Trier. Under his leadership Trier was bottom of the table in the Bundesliga, he then received no new contract from the TBB. He then worked as an assistant coach for the Arizona Rhinos in the US league ABA.
Web links
- Bernhard Thompson (HERZOGtel Trier) - player profile on the statistics pages of the basketball leagues
- Bernard Thompson - player profile on NBA.com
- Bernard Thompson - player profile on basketball-reference.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ From Baum to Thompson . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 38 .
- ↑ The 200 best basket hunters in the Bundesliga since 1975 . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 212 .
- ↑ Volksfreund: Trier: TBB dismisses trainer Thompson. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Thompson, Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Phoenix, Arizona , USA |