DaShaun Wood

DaShaun Wood
Player information
Nickname	Little Toni
birthday	September 29, 1985
place of birth	Detroit , United States
size	185 cm
position	Point guard
college	Wright State
Club information
society	Le Mans Sarthe Basket
league	LNB Pro A
Clubs as active
2003–2007 Wright State Raiders ( NCAA ) 2007–2008 Pallacanestro Cantù 2008–2009 Benetton Treviso 2010–2011 Deutsche Bank Skyliners 2011–2013 ALBA Berlin 2013–2014 Le Mans Sarthe Basket 2014–2015 Tofaş SK Bursa 2015 Limoges CSP Since 2016 Cholet Basket 00000 0

Dashaun wood (* 29. September 1985 as DaShaun Lynch in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American basketball player . In the 2010/11 season, Wood, playing in the position of point guard , wearing the Deutsche Bank Skyliners jersey, was named “ Most Valuable Player ” (MVP) of the 2010/11 Basketball Bundesliga . Wood won the Beko BBL Cup 2013 with ALBA Berlin . Since January 2016 he has been playing for Cholet Basket in France .

Career

From 2003 to 2007, Wood played for College Team Raiders in the NCAA for four years while studying at Wright State University . At the beginning of his studies he changed his last name Lynch to that of his biological father and was named DaShaun Wood in 2007 as "Player of the Year" of the Horizon League in the NCAA. Having not for the doped highest professional league NBA was selected, he went as a professional to Europe and played for Pallacanestro Cantu and Benetton Treviso in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A . In the 2009/10 season he was not under contract with any professional club because of the recovery from a cruciate ligament tear . In 2010 he played in the NBA Summer League for the Los Angeles Clippers .

In the 2010/11 basketball Bundesliga , he was signed by the Deutsche Bank Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main , where he became MVP of the basketball league after a one-year break from competition . However, the Skyliners lost in the play-off semi- finals against eventual runner-up ALBA Berlin. Then the Frankfurt coach Gordon Herbert moved to the Berlin club and Wood was also signed by ALBA. After a moderate 2011/12 season , coach Herbert left the club. In the following 2012/13 season , ALBA and Wood reached the intermediate round of the 16 best teams in the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 . After winning the Beko BBL Cup in 2013 in front of their home crowd, however, the Berliners were eliminated again early in the first round of the play-offs.

After his contract in Berlin expired, Wood joined the French club Le Mans Sarthe Basket in the LNB Pro A for the 2013/14 season . After one season he moved to Turkey to Tofaş SK Bursa , where he was also only active for one year. After the 2014/15 season he signed a contract with Limoges CSP , but did not play a single game for the French club.

In January 2016, Wood moved to Cholet Basket .

Achievements & Awards

• BBL Most Valuable Player : 2010/11 season
• 2 × BBL Best Offensive Player : 2010/11 season, 2011/12 season
• 2 × BBL ALl-First-Team : 2010/11 season, 2011/12 season

Web links

• DaShaun Wood (ALBA Berlin) - player profile on the statistics pages of the basketball national leagues
• Legabasket: DaShaun Wood - player profile on the websites of Serie A ( Italian )
• Dashaun wood Stats - Wright State Raiders statistics (from college seasons at statsheet.com english )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Most Valuable Player - DaShaun Wood (Deutsche Bank Skyliners). (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on April 16, 2011 ; accessed on June 4, 2013 (media info). 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.  
2. ↑ Wood and Byars leave ALBA. (No longer available online.) ALBA Berlin , June 4, 2013, archived from the original on June 8, 2013 ; accessed on June 4, 2013 (media info). 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.