Cliff Hammonds

Cliff Hammonds
Player information
Full name	Clifford Daniel Hammonds IV
birthday	December 18, 1985 (34 years 258 days)
place of birth	Fort Bragg , North Carolina , United States
size	191 cm
position	Point guard
college	Clemson
Club information
society	s.Oliver Würzburg
league	Basketball Bundesliga
Clubs as active
2004–2008 Clemson Tigers ( NCAA ) 2008–2009 Darüşşafaka Cooper Tires 2008–2009 → Efes Pilsen SK Istanbul 2009 Piratas de Quebradillas ( BSN ) 2009–2010 GS Peristeri 2010–2011 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 2011–2012 Banvit BK 2012–2013 KK Igokea Aleksandrovac 2013–2015 Alba Berlin 2015–2016 Reno Bighorns 2016 Limoges CSP 2016–2017 MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg since 2017 s.Oliver Würzburg 00000 00000 0

Clifford Daniel "Cliff" Hammonds (born December 18, 1985 in Fort Bragg , North Carolina ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Hammonds played as a professional mainly in Europe. After winning the double in Bosnia in 2013, Hammonds played two years for the German first division club Alba Berlin and won the Beko BBL Cup 2014 , the runner-up in 2014 as well as two individual awards as “Best Defensive Player” ( German best defender ). In 2015 he first returned to his home country and plays in the NBA Development League with the Reno Bighorns.

Career

Growing up in southern Georgia , Hammonds went to study at Clemson University in the town of the same name in South Carolina . Here he played from 2004 to 2008 for the Tigers university team in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) of NCAA Division I. His teammates with the Tigers initially included Sharrod Ford , who later also play as a professional in the German basketball league should. Within the ACC, the Tigers did not achieve a positive season balance at first, but it was enough to qualify for the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). After a positive 2007 season record against ACC teams, the NIT made it into the final, which was lost to the Mountaineers of West Virginia University . In the final year of Hammonds' NCAA career, the Tigers finally reached the final game of the ACC championship tournament, which was lost to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels . This Hammonds was with his teammates, which include the later Bundesliga player KC Rivers and Raymond Sykes were, but after ten years of abstinence for the national NCAA finals qualified, but in the one right in the first round against the poor assessed Wildcats of Villanova University was defeated, in which, among other things, in addition to Dante Cunningham and Corey Fisher, the later Bundesliga players Dwayne Anderson and Reggie Redding , Hammonds' future teammate at Alba Berlin, were in the squad. Hammonds was in every year of his active time with the Tigers, starting as a " freshman ", the player with the most playing time in the squad of the Tigers and holds the record for the most minutes played in the history of the Tigers; in addition, every year he led the “ assist - turnover ratio”, which is important for point guards . Hammonds is also among the leading players in Tiger history when it comes to winning the ball ; In his senior year in 2008 he was appointed to the “All-Defensive Team” of the ACC Conference.

After Hammonds in the 2008 NBA draft by any club of the most lucrative professional league NBA was chosen, he finally signed his first professional contract with SK Darüşşafaka in Turkish Istanbul . In December 2008 Hammonds was loaned to local rivals and later Turkish champions Efes Pilsen, for whom he completed five appearances in the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2008/09 . After the early elimination after the preliminary round in the Euroleague, Hammonds, who had not played for Efes in the national Türkiye Basketbol Ligi , returned to Darüşşafaka SK, the eighth-placed team after the main round in the first play-off round for the national Championship on the main round first Efes Pilsen met and could not achieve a victory there. After Hammonds had played in the play-offs of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional in Puerto Rico for the Piratas from Quebradillas in the summer of 2009 , but they lost the final series against the Vaqueros from Bayamón to, among others, Nathan Peavy , Hammonds returned for the 2009/10 season Europe back and played for the first division returnee GS Peristeri in the greater Athens area in the Greek A1 Ethniki . The climber missed the play-offs for the national championship only because of the poorer direct comparison in ninth place in the table. Then Hammonds played in the 2010/11 season in the French LNB Pro A for the record champions ASVEL from Villeurbanne . After missing the qualification for the ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 , they were eliminated from the Eurocup 2010/11 after the preliminary round. In the national championship they missed the play-offs for the second time in a row.

For the 2011/12 season Hammonds returned to the Turkish league and played for Banvit BK from Bandırma , where his teammates included Kenan Bajramović and Cemal Nalga, two former Alba Berlin players. The club had established itself among the top Turkish teams in previous years and reached the first three places after the main round twice in a row. While in the Eurocup 2011/12 they were eliminated in the intermediate round because of the poorer direct comparison, in the national championship they missed the championship lead after the main round also only because of the poorer direct comparison against the first Galatasaray Medical Park tied for points . In the play-off semifinals they were eliminated after five games against record champions Efes. For the 2012/13 season Hammonds went to KK Igokea Aleksandrovac in Laktaši , which is counted within Bosnia to the Republika Srpska . For this club he was particularly active in the ABA league , in which the club surprisingly took first place after the main round and hosted the Final Four tournament in its only second participation in the national league . There they lost in the semifinals against record winner KK Partizan Belgrade . In the final round of the national Bosnian championship it was enough to win the second title after 2001, which refined the cup victory to a national double . For the 2013/14 season, Hammonds moved to the German cup winner Alba Berlin, with whom he was eliminated in the 2013/14 Eurocup only in the quarter-finals. Then they defended Alba's title win in the Beko BBL Cup 2014 in a new edition of the previous year's final against host ratiopharm Ulm , with Hammonds, who is considered a defensive specialist, was the team's top scorer in the final . At the end of the season, Hammonds received the individual award as the best defender of the basketball Bundesliga of the season and reached the final series of the championship with his team, which was lost to FC Bayern Munich . In the following season, the team received an invitation to the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2014/15 , in which it was only on the last match day in the home game against defending champion Maccabi Tel Aviv that a German team made it to the Euroleague quarter-final for the first time -offs failed. Hammonds was again named Best Defensive Player in the Basketball Bundesliga, but after failing to defend his cup title, they lost in a highly dramatic last game of the semi-final series of the championship at home after extra time against the defending champion FC Bayern and failed because of the renewed entry into the Final series.

In the fall of 2015, Hammonds became a father again and for a long time could not decide to continue working abroad. Instead, he began the season in his home country in the NBA Development League (D-League) with the Bighorns from Reno (Nevada) , where he played with former Bundesliga players Chad Toppert and Mark Tyndale , among others .

In the 2016/17 season , Hammonds played for the French club Limoges CSP in LNB Pro A before moving to the German first division club MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg in November 2016 .

After the 2016/17 season, Cliff Hammonds moved within the BBL and has since played for s.Oliver Würzburg .

Web links

• Cliff Hammonds - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• easyCredit BBL - Cliff Hammonds - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• HAMMONDS, CLIFF - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reynolds, Villanova complete Tampa's day of upsets, clip Clemson. ESPN , March 22, 2008, accessed November 15, 2015 (English, game statistics). 
2. ↑ 2013-14 Clemson Men's Basketball Media Guide. (PDF (flash-animated)) ISSUU.com, October 24, 2013, pp. 113, 117 , accessed on April 5, 2014 (English, season brochure of Clemson University ). 
3. ↑ Cliff Hammonds - Turkish Basketball League Player. TBLStat.net, accessed on April 5, 2014 (English, player profile with season statistics). 
4. ↑ BSNPR.COM - Jugadores: Hammonds, Cliff. Baloncesto Superior Nacional , accessed April 5, 2014 (Spanish, player statistics). 
5. ^ NN: Cliff Hammonds. on: Ligue Nationale de Basket website; Paris, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2019 (in French).
6. ^ NN: Clifford Daniel Hammonds IV. ( Memento June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Archived from ABA-Liga-Website; no location and no date between 2001 and 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2019 (in English).
7. ↑ Robert Jerzy: 86:80 - ALBA BERLIN defended the Cup against ratiopharm Ulm. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , March 30, 2014, archived from the original on May 8, 2014 ; Retrieved April 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Cliff Hammonds officially named "Best Defensive Player". Basketball Bundesliga , May 26, 2014, accessed on November 15, 2015 (media information in the news archive). 
9. Jump up ↑ Jesse Robbins: The Bighorns select five players in the 2015 NBA D-League Draft. On: National Basketball Association G-League website; New York, NY, October 31, 2015. Retrieved March 11, 2019 (in English).
10. ↑ NN: New entry: Cliff Hammonds moves to the MHP RIESEN! On: Schönen-Dunk-Website; Berlin, November 8, 2016. Accessed March 11, 2019 (in English).