DeAndre Kane

DeAndre Kane
Player information
birthday	10th June 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States
size	196 cm
position	Shooting Guard
college	Marshall , Iowa State
Clubs as active
2010–2013 Marshall Thundering Herd ( NCAA ) 2013–2014 Iowa State Cyclones (NCAA) 2014 Krasny Oktjabr Volgograd 2014–2015 Antwerp Giants 2015 ratiopharm ulm 2016 Hapoel Eilat 2016–2017 BK Nizhny Novgorod 2017 Real Betis Sevilla 00000 00000 00000 00000
National team
Since 02017	Hungary

DeAndre Kane (born June 10, 1989 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American - Hungarian basketball player . After studying in his home country, Kane began a professional career in Europe, where he played in Russia , Belgium , Israel , Spain and at the beginning of the 2015/16 basketball Bundesliga for Ratiopharm Ulm in Germany. At the beginning of June 2017, Kane received the citizenship of Hungary, where he had not played before, and can take part in international competitions for his adopted country.

Career

Kane first attended Schenley High School in his hometown of Pittsburgh , with whose basketball team he remained undefeated in four years, along with DJ Kennedy, among others , and then completed a preparatory year for studies at The Patterson School in Lenoir (North Carolina) , which had previously been done Jordan Hill and Wesley Johnson , two years older , had been visited. Finally, he and his classmate Hassan Whiteside received a scholarship from Marshall University in Huntington (West Virginia) in 2009 . As a “partial qualifier”, however, according to the restrictions of the NCAA , he had to concentrate on his academic studies in the first year before he could then become active for the Thundering Herd basketball team in Conference USA (C-USA). Whiteside was already playing in the most highly endowed professional league NBA . The successes and NCAA finals participation of the Thundering Herd basketball team were all prior to 1990, even if more well-known people were still active there afterwards, with Jason Williams as player and Billy Donovan as coach. With Whiteside it had been enough for the first national postseason participation in almost 25 years, if only in the rather insignificant College-Insider.com Tournament (CIT), in which you won a game before you were eliminated. Under the new coach Tom Herrion, it was enough with Kane again a year later to participate in the CIT, but this time they lost the first round game at home with one point difference against the Bobcats of Ohio University . In the following season they reached the championship tournament of the C-USA the final game, which was clearly lost against the Tigers of the University of Memphis . Thus, although they missed the first participation in the national NCAA finals in 25 years, but reached the National Invitation Tournament , in which, however, the first round game against the Blue Raiders of Middle Tennessee State University was lost. In the following season, the Thundering Herd no longer achieved a positive season balance and completely missed participation in a national post-season tournament.

After four years at the university, Kane had already achieved his academic degree and was then able to change the university without any problems in 2013, since as a graduate he no longer had to fear a ban due to a change of university. So he played his fourth NCAA season with the Cyclones of Iowa State University in the Big 12 Conference . In the Big 12, Kane immediately caused a sensation, won the first 14 games with his team under coach Fred Hoiberg and, after being among the ten best players in C-USA for the last two years, was in the "All-Second Team" of the Conference had been chosen, named “Big 12 Newcomer of the Year” and chosen among the best five players of the Big 12 in the “All-First Team”. At the end of the season, the Cyclones were finally able to win the Big 12 championship tournament, in which Kane was honored as Most Valuable Player (MVP). Ranked number 3 in their own region, the Cyclones reached the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA finals after a narrow second-round success over the renowned North Carolina Tar Heels with a "game winner" from Kane . Here, however, they were defeated in Madison Square Garden to the later title winner UConn Huskies , in which the German national player Niels Giffey was active, with 76:81, which ended Kane's NCAA career. After the almost 25-year-old Kane was not considered in the NBA's Entry Draft , he played in the 2014 NBA Summer League for the Los Angeles Lakers , who did not sign him for the pre-season.

Kane finally began his professional career in Europe, where he was under contract with his former classmate DJ Kennedy at the beginning of the 2014/15 season in Volgograd, Russia near Krasny Oktyabr . After the former national coach Dirk Bauermann became the new coach at the end of October , Kennedy and Kane had also been dismissed a good month after the start of the season in November 2014 and Kane moved to Belgium to the Giants from Antwerp . In the Euro Challenge 2014/15 , in which the rookie was able to draw attention to themselves with strong individual statistics, he reached with the Belgian team the second group stage of the 16 best teams in which we only just because of the poorer direct comparison on entry into the Knockout rounds failed. In the Belgian championship, after sixth place in the main round of the Scooore League, it was only enough to move into the play-offs , in which they were eliminated in the first round. After the 2015 NBA Summer League with the Atlanta Hawks , Kane signed a contract with German first division club ratiopharm Ulm, where Will Clyburn , a former Iowa State cyclone, had already played successfully. With Kane, but without various injured players like Carlon Brown , the Ulm team lost seven of the first nine games in the 2015/16 basketball Bundesliga and signed another former Iowa State player, Chris Babb , among others . In the end there was no more room for Kane and he asked for his contract to be terminated in early December. After the turn of the year, Kane signed a new contract until the end of the season in Eilat with Hapoel , who play in the Israeli Ligat ha'Al . After the fifth place in the main round, Eilat remained victorious in the first play-off round in three games and reached the Final Four without defeat , in which they were inferior to defending champion Hapoel Jerusalem by just four points in the semi-finals .

For the 2016/17 season, Kane returned to Russia and played for the club from Nizhny Novgorod in the VTB United League 2016/17 and in the EuroCup 2016/17 , in which the team reached the second group stage of the 16 best teams. At the start of this group stage at the beginning of 2017, Kane was the MVP of the match day with the best effectiveness rating in the 113: 105 win over national competitor Zenit St. Petersburg ; the other five games of this phase, including for Kane again against Hapoel Jerusalem, the team lost and was eliminated from this competition. At the beginning of March 2017, Kane left the Russian team, which had little chance of reaching the play-offs in the United League, and joined the CDB Real Betis club from Seville, which was relegated in the Spanish ACB league . After just six weeks and five missions, the ailing Kane left this team in mid-April. At the beginning of the summer break, Kane received Hungarian citizenship in early June 2017 , with which he is eligible to play for the Hungarian national team, which is taking part in a finals at the highest level for the first time in 18 years at the 2017 European Basketball Championship . With the Hungarians, Kane is virtually the "successor" of his compatriot Obie Trotter , who was naturalized six years earlier .

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - DeAndre Kane - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• KANE, DEANDRE - Profile on the website of the EuroCup ( English )
• DeAndre Kane College Stats - Profile and NCAA stats at sports-reference.com (English)
• DeAndre Kane - 2013-14 Basketball (M) Roster - Profile on the sports websites of Iowa State University (English; as of 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bobcats Advance to Second Round of CIT, Win at Marshall. (No longer available online.) Ohio University , March 15, 2011, archived from the original on January 22, 2015 ; accessed on June 3, 2017 . 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. ↑ Associated Press : North Carolina vs. Iowa State - Game Recap: Iowa State tops UNC despite bizarre ending for rare Sweet 16 berth. ESPN , March 24, 2014, accessed June 3, 2017 (English, match report with statistics). 
3. ↑ Iowa State vs. North Carolina: DeAndre Kane's shot beats UNC - 2014 March Madness. YouTube , February 24, 2015, accessed on June 3, 2017 (English, video upload by user NCAA March Madness ). 
4. ↑ Associated Press : Connecticut vs. Iowa State - Game Recap: DeAndre Daniels leads UConn by Iowa St., into East final. ESPN , March 29, 2014, accessed June 3, 2017 (game report with statistics). 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Garrett Kroeger: Former ISU guard DeAndre Kane continues to pursue his dream. Iowa State University : IowaStateDaily.com, July 10, 2015, accessed June 3, 2017 . 
6. ↑ DeAndre Kane / EuroChallenge (2015). FIBA Europe , accessed on June 3, 2017 (English, profile with statistics). 
7. ↑ dpa : Lack of attitude: Ulm separates from DeAndre Kane. Augsburger Allgemeine , December 8, 2015, accessed June 3, 2017 . 
8. ↑ 7DAYS EuroCup, Top 16 Round 1 MVP: DeAndre Kane, Nizhny Novgorod. EuroCup , January 5, 2017, accessed on June 3, 2017 (English, media information). 
9. ↑ ACB.COM: Acuerdo con Deandre Kane for the rescisión del contrato que le unía al club. Liga ACB , April 21, 2017, accessed June 3, 2017 (Spanish, media info Real Betis Energía Plus). 
10. ↑ ACB.COM: DeAndre Kane. (No longer available online.) ACB League , archived from the original on May 17, 2017 ; accessed on June 3, 2017 (Spanish, player profile with statistics). 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.  
11. ↑ Fazekas Zoltán: Férfi kosár: “Óriási lehetőség, hogy válogatott lehetek”. Nemzeti Sport , June 1, 2017, accessed June 3, 2017 (Hungarian).