Danny Lewis
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| Full name | Danny Cornell Lewis | |
| Nickname | Diamond | |
| birthday | June 21, 1970 | |
| place of birth | Kalamazoo (MI), USA | |
| size | 185 cm | |
| position | Point guard | |
| college | Wayne State | |
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1989–1993 Wayne State Warriors ( NCAA II) 1993–1994 Rayos de Hermosillo (CIBACOPA) 1994–2000 London Towers 2000–2002 Maccabi Ramat Gan 2002 Idea Slask Breslau 2002–2003 Locomotive Minwody 2003–2004 CB Breogan Lugo 2004–2005 Locomotive Rostow 2005–2006 Bruesa GBC 2006–2007 CB Alcúdia Palma Aqua Magica 2008 LTi Gießen 46ers       
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Danny Lewis (born June 21, 1970 in Kalamazoo , Michigan ) is a native American former basketball player . Danny Lewis, who has also had British citizenship since 2000 , is the nephew of the late Reggie Lewis , former Boston Celtics player and NBA All-Star 1992.
Career
After finishing school, Lewis studied at Wayne State University in Detroit in his native Michigan state. For the high school team Warriors he played until 1993 in NCAA Division II. When he did not get a professional contract in a better-paid US professional league after his studies, he played across the border in Mexico's Hermosillo before 1994 to London to the Towers changed.
With the London Towers, Lewis was twice champion in 1996 and 1999 of the British Basketball League in six years . In addition, he was invited to the All-Star Game of the British League in all these seasons and at the end of the season, except for his first season, was always chosen among the top ten players of the past season. When he won the second championship in 1999, he was also MVP of the final tournament. In his last season for the Towers they won the league cup BBL Trophy just against the Manchester Giants in 2000 , but missed the championship final against the same opponent and thus the title defense by a semi-final defeat. After six years at the London Towers, Lewis received a British passport in 2000, which, as a result of the Bosman decision, tried his luck in better-paid European leagues.
After two seasons in the Israeli Ligat ha'Al for Maccabi from Ramat Gan , Lewis, who was elected MVP of the past season in Israel in 2002, was active for Idea Śląsk from Wroclaw at the beginning of the 2002/03 season before moving to December Russia switched to locomotive from Minwody . In March 2003 he played in the Spanish ACB league for CB Breogán in Lugo , Galicia , for which he was also active in the 2003/04 season. For the 2004/05 season, however, he returned to locomotives, who had moved with the team to Rostov-on-Don , and reached the final of the FIBA EuroCup Challenge with this team . After Lewis had helped his team to victory over national rivals Dynamo Oblast Moscow in the semifinals , he remained in the narrow final defeat against the Romanian hosts CSU Asesoft Ploieşti in five minutes without any significant influence on the game.
In the 2005/06 season Lewis returned to Spain in January 2006 and played in the Basque San Sebastián for the second division team Bruesa GBC, who rose to the top division at the end of the season by winning the promotion play-offs . In the following season Lewis joined the previous league rivals CB Alcúdia from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and played another season in the Liga Española de Baloncesto . However, these were eliminated in the play-offs at the end of the season in the first round.
In February 2008, Lewis finally came to Giessen , where he achieved relegation in the German basketball league with the local 46ers .
Web links
- easyCredit BBL - Danny Lewis - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
- Danny Lewis - player profile on the website of the Liga ACB, as of 2007 (Spanish)
- Danny Lewis | FIBA Europe Cup Men 2005 - Statistics on the website of FIBA Europe (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dynamo Moscow Region 63 vs. Lokomotiv Rostov 74th FIBA Europe , April 9, 2005, accessed December 29, 2012 (English, match report).
- ↑ Lokomotiv Rostov 74 vs. CSU Asesoft Ploieşti 75th FIBA Europe , April 10, 2005, accessed on December 29, 2012 (English, match report).
- ↑ FEB: Lewis, Danny. Federación Española de Baloncesto , accessed December 29, 2012 (Spanish, player profile).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lewis, Danny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kalamazoo , Michigan |