David Andersen (basketball player)

David Andersen
Player information
Full name	David Emil Andersen
birthday	June 23, 1980
place of birth	Melbourne , Australia
size	212 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
NBA draft	2002 , 36th Pick, Atlanta Hawks
Club information
society	Melbourne United
league	NBL
Clubs as active
1998–1999 Wollongong Hawks 1999–2003 Children Bologna 2003–2004 Montepaschi Siena 2004–2008 PBK ZSKA Moscow 2008–2009 FC Barcelona 2009–2010 Houston Rockets 2010 Toronto Raptors 2010–2011 New Orleans Hornets 2011–2012 Montepaschi Siena 2012–2013 Fenerbahçe Ülker 2014 Strasbourg IG 2014–2016 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne Since 2016 Melbourne United 00000 00000 0
National team
Since 001999	Australia

David Emil Andersen (born June 23, 1980 in Carlton , Melbourne ) is an Australian basketball player. He can play in the positions of power forward and center and has been a long-time member of the Australian national team . In addition, he has Danish citizenship, so that he is an EU national in European leagues . Andersen was one of the few players to win the title three times in the highest European club competition, the ULEB Euroleague . In addition, he and his various teams in Europe won a total of eight national championships in Italy , Russia and Spain, as well as eight titles in national cup competitions. He has been playing for Melbourne United since 2016 and is back in Australia for the first time since 1999.

Club career

Initially active for the Wollongong Hawks in the NBL , Andersen moved to Europe in 1999. He was active for children in Bologna until 2003 and won the Italian championship and the Euroleague with this club in 2001 . For Montepaschi Siena he played for a year, he was again Italian champion, where he was recognized as the most valuable player in the final series, and reached the Final Four of the Euroleague . He celebrated two more victories in this competition ( 2006 - he was unable to take part in the Final Four due to injury - 2008 ) and one final ( 2007 ) with CSKA Moscow , where he was under contract until 2008 and also won the Russian championship every year. In addition, Andersen was elected to the All Euroleague First Team in 2005 . In 2008 he moved to Spain to FC Barcelona.

On July 15, 2009, it was announced that the Houston Rockets had acquired the NBA rights to Andersen after he had been drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in 2002 . 2010 followed a change within the NBA to the Toronto Raptors , which Andersen gave up to the New Orleans Hornets in November of the same year . In 2011 he returned to Europe and signed a contract with Montepaschi Siena . On August 16, 2012, Fenerbahçe Ülker announced his commitment for 2 years. After winning the national cup competition in 2013, however, they were eliminated in the championship in the first play-off round. The new coach Željko Obradović then renounced the other services of Andersen and he finally signed a new contract with the French runner-up Illkirch-Graffenstaden Basket from Strasbourg at the end of January 2014 , who had already been eliminated from the ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 . The following season he joined league rivals ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne , where he played until 2016.

National team career

Andersen played in various youth teams in Australia and was named Most Valuable Player at the 1998 Albert Schweitzer Tournament . He participated with the senior national team in the 2004 , 2008 , 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games and was also part of the Australian selection at the 2010 and 2014 World Championships .

Web links

• Official website ( English )
• ANDERSEN, DAVID - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
• archive.fiba.com: Players - David ANDERSEN (AUS) - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments (English)
• David Andersen - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• David Andersen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Andersen Fenerbahçe Ülker'de , accessed on August 20, 2012 (Turkish)
2. ↑ STRASBOURG lands legend David Andersen. (No longer available online.) ULEB , January 22, 2014, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; accessed on January 26, 2014 (English). 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.