Darius Washington

Darius Washington
Player information
Full name	Darius Myron Washington Jr.
birthday	December 6, 1985
place of birth	Winter Park , Florida , United States
size	188 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	Point guard
High school	Edgewater ( Orlando, Florida )
college	Memphis (2004-2006)
Clubs as active
2006 PAOK Saloniki 2006–2007 CEZ Nymburk 2007 San Antonio Spurs → 2007 Austin Toros 2008 Aris Saloniki 2008–2009 Ural Great Perm 2009–2010 Galatasaray Café Crown 2010–2011 Lottomatica Rome 2011 Piratas de Quebradillas 2011–2012 Türk Telekom 2012 Piratas de Quebradillas 2013 Hapoel Eilat 2013 Le Mans Sarthe Basket Since 2013 Olin Edirne Basket000 0 000 0 000 000 0 000 0 000 0 000 0 000 0 0
National team
	Macedonia

Darius Myron Washington Jr. (born December 6, 1985 in Winter Park , Florida ) is an American- North Macedonian basketball player . The 1.88 meter point guard played briefly for the San Antonio Spurs in the 2007/08 season . Since 2013 he has been under contract with Olin Edirne Basket in Turkey.

Player career

college

Darius Washington played for the Memphis Tigers College Basketball after the Edgewater High School in Orlando ( Florida came). As a freshman , he recorded 15.4 points, 3.8  assists and 1.7 steals per game and was voted Conference USA Freshman of the Year . He led Memphis in its sophomore college season in the Elite Eight (quarterfinals) of the NCAA tournament of 2006, where they lost to eventual title winners UCLA . He was then given an All-America Honorable Mention .

Professional career

On April 25, 2006, he volunteered for the 2006 NBA Draft , signed with an agent, and waived his last two college years. However, he was then not chosen by an NBA team.

He tried to get into the NBA anyway. He played in try-outs at some clubs (for example at the Dallas Mavericks for which he was able to achieve an average of 4.4 points in five preseason games), but did not receive a season contract. He later became the Austin Toros of the NBA D-League drafted . However, he decided to go to AOK Saloniki in Greece . In seven games for PAOK, Darius averaged 11.0 points, 3.1  rebounds , and 2.0 steals. He also played seven ULEB Cup games, in which he was able to achieve 10.6 points per game. Later in the 2006/07 season he moved to the Czech NBL league to CEZ Nymberk, where he recorded 12.8 points, 3.2 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.0 steals in 26 games  and the team to the national championship could lead.

On October 2, 2007, Washington was accepted into their training camp roster by the San Antonio Spurs . There he prevailed somewhat surprisingly in the preseason against rookie Marcus Williams, who was elected by the Spurs in the second round of the 2007 NBA Draft . In seven preseason games (in one he was even in the star formation of the Spurs) he made an average of 9.3 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.4 assists. Darius Washington was in the Spurs' 15-man squad for the 2007/08 NBA season .

After Washington played 15 games for the Spurs, he was sent on November 29 by the Spurs to the Austin Toros in the NBA Development League . In the first game for the Toros, Darius scored 32 points, 12 rebounds and 5 assists in a 114: 109 win over the Sioux Falls Skyforce. On December 8th, Darius had the first triple-double of his professional career against the Tulsa 66ers . He made 26 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. He started all four games for the Toros, led the D-League with 28.2 points and scored an average of 8.5 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 2.0 steals in 38.5 minutes per game.

On December 13th he was brought back to the NBA by the Spurs, who at the time had some injury problems, before he was sent back to the Toros on December 21 after just three games. In the D-League he played two more games until Darius Washington was sacked by San Antonio on December 28th. In a total of 18 games for the Spurs in the NBA, Darius made 2.9 points and 1.1 rebounds in 8.1 minutes.

On January 5, 2008, Washington signed a contract in the Greek League with PAOK's city rival Aris Saloniki .

In 2008 Washington completed a few games in the Summer League for the Milwaukee Bucks . On September 26, 2008, he was sent to the Chicago Bulls training camp. After completing two preseason games, however, he was released by the Bulls on October 20. He then moved to the Russian Superleague for Ural Great Perm , which also competed in the ULEB Eurocup in the 2008/09 season. He then worked for one season at Galatasaray Café Crown .

In the following years he worked for other clubs all over the world (see info box).

Macedonian national team

Darius Washington received the Macedonian citizenship in 2008 . In 2009 he played for the Macedonian national basketball team .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NBA.com/dleague/austin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Spurs Assign Darius Washington To Austin Toros (November 29, 2007)  
2. ↑ NBA.com/dleague/austin ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Spurs Re-Assign Darius Washington To Austin Toros (December 21, 2007)  
3. ↑ NBA.com/spurs Spurs Waive Darius Washington (December 28, 2007)
4. ↑ euroleague.net Aris adds point guard Darius Washington (January 5, 2008)
5. ↑ NBA.com/bulls Bulls waive Brown and Washington (October 20, 2008)
6. ↑ eurocupbasketball.com Ural Great inks guard Darius Washington (October 27, 2008)
7. ↑ http://www.court-side.com/news/blog/darius-washington-joins-olin-edirne/

Web links

• NBA.com player profile
• Darius Washington - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• NBA.com/dleague player profile
• NBA.com/dleague player profile (English, PDF ; 136 kB)
• NBA.com/draft2006 Draftprofile (English)