Clint Capela

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Basketball player
Clint Capela
Clint N'Dumba-Capela (30550753740) .jpg
Player information
Full name Clint N'Dumba-Capela
birthday 18th May 1994 (age 26)
place of birth Geneva , Switzerland
size 208 cm
Weight 109 kg
position center
High school INSEP
NBA draft 2014 , 25th Pick, Houston Rockets
Club information
society Atlanta Hawks
league NBA
Jersey number 15th
Clubs as active
2012–2014 Élan Sportif Chalonnais 2014–2015 → Rio Grande Valley Vipers ( D-League ) 2014–2020 Houston Rockets Since 2020 Atlanta HawksFranceFrance
United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
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National team
Since 02013SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland

Clint N'Dumba-Capela (born May 18, 1994 in Geneva ) is a Swiss basketball player . He has been under contract with the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA since 2020 . Before that he was active for a long time for the Houston Rockets . Capela is a member of the Swiss national team and played for Élan Sportif Chalonnais in the French Ligue Nationale de Basket Pro A.

Career

Capela was born in Geneva. His mother is of Congolese and his father is of Angolan origin. As a teenager, he left his hometown to pursue his training as a basketball player in France, first at the Institut National du Sport in Paris, then at the Élan Sportif Chalonnais club . After he had been part of the club's youth teams from 2009, Capela has been in the squad of the club's first division team from Burgundy since 2012. He was also used in the Euroleague and the Eurocup .

In the 2014 NBA draft on June 26, 2014, he was selected by the Houston Rockets in 25th place. This made Capela the second Swiss in the NBA after Thabo Sefolosha , but it was initially considered unlikely that Capela would immediately move to the United States. Nevertheless, he signed a contract with the Rockets in July.

In his first NBA season (2014/15) Capela made twelve appearances for the Rockets (2.7 points, 2.2 rebounds on average) and also played in 17 playoff games (3.4 points, 2, 5 rebounds on average), but mostly gained match practice with the development team of the Rockets in the NBA Development League , the Rio Grande Valley Vipers . There he scored an average of 16.1 points, collected 9.7 rebounds and blocked three opposing throws per use (38 games).

Capela in 2016

In the 2015/16 season he was an integral part of the Rockets squad. In 77 appearances this season, Capela started 35 times, his mean values ​​per game were 7.0 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.2 blocks. In the five playoff games of the season with the Rockets he was used less, statistically he contributed an average of 1.6 points and 4.0 rebounds per game.

In the 2017/18 season, Capela took another big step and took second place in the selection of the NBA players who had the best development over the course of the season. His hit rate of 65.2 percent during the main round was NBA top, he scored 13.9 points, 10.8 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game and was eliminated in the playoffs with Houston only in the semifinals against the eventual title winner Golden State .

In the summer of 2018, he signed a new five-year contract with the Rockets, which guaranteed him a total salary of 90 million US dollars. In this way he became the highest paid Swiss team athlete. In 2018/19 he reached the season's bests to date in his career: 16.6 points and 12.7 rebounds per encounter.

In early February 2020, Capela joined the Atlanta Hawks as part of a barter involving the Minnesota, Denver, Houston, and Atlanta franchises . Up to this point he had played 39 games for Houston in the 2019/20 season and averaged 13.9 points as well as 13.8 rebounds and 1.8 blocks.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Calvin Stettler: The gentle giant takes off. Der Bund, January 3, 2018, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Kalwa, New York: NBA player Clint Capela: bright spot in the problem team. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved July 18, 2016 .
  3. ^ Clint Capela drafted from Houston. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung June 27, 2014. Accessed June 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ No. 25 pick Clint Capela signs with the Houston Rockets
  5. ↑ NN: 2014-2015 Vipers Regular Season Statistics. ( Memento of July 18, 2016 on the Internet Archive ) Archived from National Basketball Association — website; New York City, NY, undated in 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2019 (in English).
  6. ↑ NBA.com/Stats. In: stats.nba.com. Retrieved July 18, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Bote der Urschweiz AG 6431 Schwyz: No award for Capela - James Harden MVP. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Rockets 2018 season recap: Clint Capela took that leap . In: The Dream Shake . ( thedreamshake.com [accessed June 29, 2018]).
  9. ↑ a b Capela from Houston to Atlanta. In: bote.ch. February 5, 2020, accessed February 6, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b Clint Capela. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Capela, Clint
ALTERNATIVE NAMES N'Dumba-Capela, Clint (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva , Switzerland