Brandon Thomas (basketball player)

Brandon Thomas
Player information
Full name	Brandon Omar Thomas
birthday	17th August 1984
place of birth	Bitburg, Germany
size	198 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college	Massachusetts (Amherst)
Clubs as active
2002–2004 LIU Blackbirds ( NCAA ) 2005–2007 UMass Minutemen (NCAA) 2007–2008 Team FOG Næstved 2008–2009 WBC Wels 2009–2011 New Yorker Phantoms 2011 Vanoli-Braga Cremona 2011–2012 Artland Dragons 2012–2013 FC Bayern Munich 2013 Indios de Mayagüez ( BSN ) 2013–2015 Artland Dragons 2015 JSF Nanterre 2015–2016 Movistar Estudiantes 2016 Brujos de Guayama (BSN) 2016–2017 Champville 2018 Regatas Corrientes since 2018 Gießen 46ers 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 0

Brandon Thomas (born August 17, 1984 in Bitburg , Rhineland-Palatinate ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Thomas began his professional career in smaller European leagues in Denmark and Austria , where he won the championship in 2009. Only interrupted by a detour in 2011 in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A at Vanoli Cremona, Thomas played for various first division clubs in the German basketball league from 2009 to 2015 . In Lower Saxony with the Phantoms from Braunschweig and the Dragons from Quakenbrück , he worked for more than one season and, like with FC Bayern Munich, reached the play-off semi- final series for the German championship, which Thomas never got beyond with his respective teams. In the 2015/16 season Thomas played in the Spanish ACB league for CB Estudiantes Madrid.

Career

After graduating from Judson High School in Converse , the US state of Texas , Thomas went to study at the Long Iceland University of Brooklyn , borough of New York City . Here he played for the college team Blackbirds in the Northeast Conference of the NCAA . After two years, he moved to college and studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . According to the regulations, he was not eligible to play in the NCAA for a year due to the change of university. In the following year, his game shares in the Minutemen in the Atlantic 10 Conference with over 20 minutes of playing time per game with those in the Blackbirds were comparable. In his senior year he was only used a good ten minutes per game.

Despite his rather average personal statistics, especially in the last year of college, Thomas tried his luck as a professional, but was only able to get a contract in the internationally rather insignificant Danish league in Næstved . In the following season 2008/09 he was signed by the WBC from Wels in the ABL . For the club, he and his teammates won its first and so far only championship title in Austria in 2009. This success then drew the attention of John Patrick, trainer of the BBL club BG Göttingen, who signed Thomas. After just a few weeks, the contract was terminated before the start of the season. Afterwards he moved north, where he was signed by the New York Phantoms Braunschweig. Under the new coach Sebastian Machowski , after a long absence, he qualified for the play-offs for the German championship twice in a row . In 2010 they were able to defeat the defending champion and the first in the main round EWE Baskets Oldenburg , but were then eliminated in the semifinals against the eventual champions Brose Baskets from Bamberg . In 2011 they made it to the final in the BBL Cup Top Four , which in turn was lost to Brose Baskets. For the 2011/12 season he was signed by the Italian club Vanoli-Braga from Cremona.

After almost two months of play, the contract was terminated at the end of November and Thomas received an initially limited contract for one month with the German first division club Dragons from the joint municipality of Artland , which was later extended. In the play-offs for the German championship, they defeated the ambitious newly promoted FC Bayern Munich in the first round and then lost to the defending champion Brose Baskets in the semifinals. After a season in Artland, Thomas moved to FC Bayern in Munich in August 2012 . Thomas moved into the play-off semi-finals again with Bayern, where he was eliminated from the defending champion from Franconia . For the 2013/14 season, however, Thomas returned to Munich not a new contract because the squad was restructured. He then returned to the Artland Dragons, with whom he was able to dethrone four-time defending champions Brose Baskets in the first round of the 2014 play-offs, only to be defeated in the semi-finals, cup winner Alba Berlin . Although the team could largely be held together, the Dragons missed the play-offs for the championship for the first time in five years in the 2014/15 season . Thomas then switched to the French LNB Pro A for the finals of the national championships to the newly crowned winner of the EuroChallenge 2014/15 Jeunesse sportive des Fontenelles (JSF) from Nanterre on the outskirts of the capital Paris . In a team with the former Bundesliga players Jamal Shuler and Kyle Weems , the second in the main round was eliminated in the first play-off round against SLUC Nancy . While the Artland Dragons finally withdrew from the top German league, Thomas moved to the top Spanish league ACB for the first time in the following season 2015/16 , where he played for the "league veteran" CB Movistar Estudiantes in the capital Madrid .

Stops in the Middle East and South America followed. In August 2018 he signed a temporary contract with the Bundesliga club Gießen 46ers . The Mittelhessen brought Thomas to replace the injured David Bell .

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Brandon Thomas - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• THOMAS, BRANDON - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• Brandon Thomas (Court Side Agency) - profile on the pages of his player agency

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michele Talamazzi (La Provincia (Cremona)): Brandon Thomas - Uno ... ‚di famiglia '/ Campione d'Austria nel 2009. virtualnewspaper.it, August 27, 2011, p. 88 , accessed on October 3, 2011 ( Italian). 
2. ↑ Brandon Thomas Stats - Massachusetts Minutemen. (No longer available online.) Statsheet.com, formerly the original ; Retrieved July 16, 2011 (English, NCAA statistics).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Brandon Thomas becomes a Bavarian ( Memento from August 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Brando Thomas, political valencia para Movistar Estudiantes. Liga ACB , September 4, 2015, accessed September 5, 2015 (Spanish, Medien-Info Estudiantes). 
5. ↑ http://www.giessen46ers.de/giessen-46ers-reagieren-auf-bell-ausfall-brandon-thomas-kom-an-die-lahn/