Chad Toppert

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Basketball player
Chad Toppert
Player information
Full name Chad Lee Toppert
birthday November 11, 1985 (34 years 295 days)
place of birth Albuquerque (NM), USA
size 198 cm
position Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college New Mexico
Club information
society MHP giant Ludwigsburg
league Bundesliga
Jersey number 30th
Clubs as active
2005–2009 New Mexico Lobos ( NCAA ) 2009–2010 Albuquerque Thunderbirds 2010–2013 CAI Saragossa 2013–2015 Artland Dragons 2015–2016 Reno Bighorns 2016 FC Bayern Munich Since 2016 MHP Riesen LudwigsburgUnited StatesUnited States
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Chad Lee Toppert (also known as Chad Topper ; born November 11, 1985 in Albuquerque , New Mexico ) is an American - German basketball player . He has been part of the Bundesliga team MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg since August 2016 .

University sports

While his brother, Cody, who was almost three years older than him, left New Mexico to study and went to the northeastern United States, Chad stayed in Albuquerque and began studying at the University of New Mexico in 2004 , where his parents had already studied. In his first year of study he was only a training player and missed championship games, before starting in 2005 for four years in the Mountain West Conference (MWC) of the NCAA for the university team Lobos , whose home ground The Pit is one of the most famous and loudest basketball players. The NCAA arenas applies. After the Lobos in Toppert's “redshirted season” with the later NBA champion Danny Granger had won the MWC tournament in 2005 and had qualified for the national NCAA finals , they remained largely unsuccessful. It was only under the new coach Stephen Todd Alford that they received twice the invitation to the National Invitation Tournament , in which they reached at least the second round in Toppert's " Senior Season ". During his college days, Toppert was able to acquire a reputation as a long-range throw specialist and “spot-up shooter” from a distance from behind the three-point line ; In the all-time best list of the Lobos he was ranked second in 2015 on the list with the most successful three-point throws (266) in his entire career, but also in third place in the ranking with the highest success rate (43.9%) for long-range throws. However, this ability was not sufficient to recommend himself for a professional contract in the highest-endowed professional league National Basketball Association .

Professional career

Toppert then became a professional player in the NBA Development League (D-League) in 2009 with the Thunderbirds from his hometown. The Thunderbirds, who had won the championship of the NBA Development League (D-League) in Cody Töpper's debut season in 2006, acted as the farm team of the Dallas Mavericks and New Orleans Hornets in the 2009/10 D-League season , but were both athletic also not very successful economically and missed the play-offs in third from last place in the Western Conference of the D-League. It was then decided to move to the suburb of Rio Rancho before the franchise was later sold to Ohio . After one season he left Albuquerque and moved directly abroad, where he played for CAI Saragossa in the Spanish ACB league for three years .

As a result of his German ancestry, like his brother Cody Töpper , he received his German citizenship "back", with which he fell under less restrictive conditions for playing eligibility in Europe. In its ACB premiere season in 2011, Toppert was the most accurate distance thrower in the entire league with a success rate of over 50% and initially reached tenth place in the final table twice with Saragossa, before finishing fifth in the main round in the 2013 play-offs for the championship moved in. Here you could surprisingly defeat the cup finalists and former ULEB Eurocup Vice Valencia Basket Club in the first round , but then lost in the semi-final series in three games against the main round first and later title winner Real Madrid . After his time in Spain he finally played like his brother in the top German division basketball Bundesliga , where he played two seasons for the Artland Dragons. For the 2015/16 season Toppert returned to his native country, where he played in the D-League for the Reno Bighorns.

For the 2013/14 basketball Bundesliga , Toppert moved to Germany to the Dragons from the Artland community , with whom he now also played in a European club competition in the 2013/14 Eurocup . As in the following season, however, they remained unsuccessful internationally and were eliminated after the preliminary round. After the end of the 2014 season, patron Günter Kollmann , who was vice-champion himself with VfL Osnabrück in 1968 , withdrew and the Dragons started again in the third-highest division ProB 2015/16 . Toppert returned to his homeland and got a contract with the Bighorns from Reno (Nevada) in the D-League, where former Bundesliga players Cliff Hammonds and Mark Tyndale are among his teammates. He played 34 games for the team and had an average point of 8.4 before he accepted an offer from FC Bayern Munich in February 2016 , thus becoming active again in the Bundesliga. After his temporary contract expired in May of the same year, he left Munich.

In August 2016 he was signed by the MHP Giants Ludwigsburg for the 2016/17 BBL season.

Name farce

When his brother Cody was naturalized , the family name in the passport was "regermanized" to the original family name of the great-grandfather Töpper . When Chad Toppert received his German passport, the German umlaut had apparently disappeared again due to an oversight or a transmission error and his German family name was now Topper without a 't' at the end. But that was neither his great-grandfather nor his brother's surname, nor his father and the name on Chad's birth certificate. In October 2014, the German family name of Chad Toppert and his daughter, who was now born, was finally adapted to the name in his US papers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ask the Player - Chad Toppert. University of New Mexico , November 4, 2004, accessed November 15, 2015 .
  2. ^ Brendan O'Meara: Ranking the 12 Loudest Venues in College Basketball. Bleacher Report , October 4, 2014, accessed November 15, 2015 .
  3. ↑ 2015–16 New Mexico Lobo (Men's) Basketball Media Guide. (PDF (78.8 MB)) University of New Mexico , p. 65 (internal count) , accessed on November 15, 2015 (English, best lists).
  4. ↑ a b How Cody Toppert became Cody Töpper. Schoenen-Dunk.de, September 10, 2009, accessed on November 15, 2015 (Medien-Info MEG Göttingen).
  5. ↑ Clínic de tiro de Chad Toppert para jóvenes Aragoneses. Liga ACB , September 1, 2011, accessed on November 15, 2015 (Spanish, media info CAI Saragossa).
  6. ^ Chad Toppert - NBA D-League. Retrieved August 13, 2016 (American English).
  7. ↑ NN: Chikoko and Toppert complete Bayern squad. On: Landespressedienst website; Sand am Main, February 29, 2016. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  8. ↑ NN: 97:80 - Bayern uses home advantage for their first playoff win against Ludwigsburg. On: Schönen Dunk — Website; Berlin, May 7, 2016. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  9. ↑ NN: Chad Toppert brings experience and accuracy. On: Schönen Dunk — Website; Berlin, August 13, 2016. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  10. ↑ Change of name for the kite distance riflemen: Topper becomes Toppert. Basketball Bundesliga , October 29, 2014, accessed on November 15, 2015 (Media Info Artland Dragons).
personal data
SURNAME Toppert, Chad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toppert, Chad Lee (full name); Topper, Chad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Albuquerque , New Mexico, USA