DeAndre Liggins

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Basketball player
DeAndre Liggins
Liggins 2011 warming up
Player information
Full name DeAndre Desmond Liggins
birthday March 31, 1988 (32 years and 154 days)
place of birth Chicago , Illinois , United States
size 196 cm
position Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college Kentucky
NBA draft 2011 , 53rd Pick Orlando Magic
Club information
society New Orleans Pelicans
league NBA
Jersey number 34
Clubs as active
2008–2011 Kentucky Wildcats ( NCAA ) 2011–2012 Orlando Magic 2012 Oklahoma City Thunder 2013 → Tulsa 66ers 2013–2014 Sioux Falls Skyforce 2014 Miami Heat 2014–2015 Krasny Oktjabr Volgograd 2015 Polar Bears Bremerhaven 2015–2016 Sioux Falls Skyforce 2016–2017 Cleveland Cavaliers 2017 Dallas Mavericks 2017–2018 Milwaukee Bucks Since 2018 New Orleans PelicansUnited StatesUnited States
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DeAndre Desmond Liggins (born March 31, 1988 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks . After studying in his home country, Liggins was selected in the 2011 NBA Draft by a club from the highest endowed professional league, the NBA , but was unable to assert himself there and finally shuttled between engagements with clubs in the NBA Development League (D-League) and Short-term contracts with NBA clubs. In the 2014/15 season Liggins played in Europe; after an engagement in Russia he also worked in the basketball Bundesliga 2014/15 for the German first division club Eisbären Bremerhaven. After another season in the D-League, in which he won the championship in 2016 with the Sioux Falls Skyforce , he was signed for the NBA 2016/17 by the former champions Cleveland Cavaliers .

Career

Liggins grew up on the South Side of his hometown and lost his father as a teenager and his four-year-older brother to a shootout. For his senior school year Liggins finally switched to the Findlay Prep School in Henderson (Nevada) , whose basketball program, which opened in 2006, later became known nationwide for its training of talented young players. After graduating from high school, Liggins went to the University of Kentucky in 2008 , where he played on the college team Wildcats in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) of the NCAA . After he showed clear problems as a freshman with the disciplining measures of his coach Billy Gillespie, he finally flourished under the new coach John Calipari . Thanks in part to Calipari's special recruiting methods, the Wildcats won the SEC championship tournament in 2010 and 2011 and also returned to the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship tournament . The Wildcats moved into the quarterfinals Elite Eight 2010 with DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall, among others , where they lost 66:73 to the West Virginia Mountaineers . A year later, the Wildcats moved up to the prestigious Final Four , in which, however, they lost with one point to the eventual title winner Connecticut Huskies , for which in addition to Most Outstanding Player Kemba Walker , the German national player Niels Giffey received individual minutes. Unlike teammate Darius Miller , who later became the championship with one year Wildcats should win, to Liggins reported after three years Entry Draft of the doped highest professional league National Basketball Association (NBA) and was in the 2011 NBA draft on 53rd position selected by the Orlando Magic.

At Magic, Liggins was used in the 2011/12 NBA, which was shortened due to a lockout , as a rookie in 17 of 56 games, an average of almost seven minutes per game. Liggins made his debut in February 2012 in an away game at the Milwaukee Bucks . In the play-offs for the championship, in which Liggins was no longer used, Magic was eliminated as the sixth-placed team in the Eastern Conference in the first round after just one win in five games. In the following summer break, the Oklahoma City Thunder Liggins signed and sent him to their farm team Tulsa 66ers in the NBA Development League (D-League) at regular intervals after the start of the season . Liggins also played a good seven minutes per game for Thunder in 39 of 82 games this season. The 66ers lost in the play-offs of the D-League in the semi-finals to the eventual title winner Rio Grande Valley Vipers , in which the German national player Tim Ohlbrecht was active. In the Thunder, however, liggins were also used in the play-offs of the NBA 2012/13 , when the Thunder were defeated by the Memphis Grizzlies after 60 main round victories as the top seeded team in the Western Conference without the injured Russell Westbrook in the second round after an opening win in the series . At the beginning of the following pre-season, the Thunder Liggins released his contract, which then joined the Skyforce from Sioux Falls in the D-League . At Skyforce, Liggins was nominated for the D-League All-Star Game , which is part of the NBA All-Star Weekend program . From the end of February 2014 Liggins received two consecutive ten-day short-term contracts with the Miami Heat, which, however, used him in just one game for a single minute of play and released him from his second contract early. At Skyforce Liggins was named "Defensive Player of the Year" of the D-League and again reached the play-off semi-finals of the D-League. Here he again lost to Tim Ohlbrecht, who then won another title with his new team Fort Wayne Mad Ants .

For the 2014/15 season Liggins moved to Europe and played for Krasny Oktjabr from Volgograd in Russia . The former German national coach Dirk Bauermann , who was signed after the start of the season and only two weeks after Liggins, renounced the services of Liggins after reaching the second group stage in the Eurocup 2014/15 in mid-January, who joined the relegation-threatened German first division club just six weeks later Polar bears from Bremerhaven followed. In the 2014/15 basketball Bundesliga , the team reached 15th and fourth from bottom place in the table, which was enough to keep them up. Liggins then returned to his homeland and played again in the D-League for the Sioux Falls Skyforce. On request, he was nominated again for the All-Star-Game of the D-League and at the end of the season was again able to secure the award as the best defender of the season. After all, there was no longer a German national player “in the way” of him in a semi-final and Liggins won the D-League title with Skyforce in 2016. In the summer of 2016, Liggins was able to convince the current champions Cleveland Cavaliers in the preparation for the NBA 2016/17 season to give him a new contract in the NBA. For the 2017/18 season he plays for the Milwaukee Bucks .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jason King: Liggins driven by memory of late brother. Yahoo News , April 1, 2011, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Alumni. FindlayPrep.com, accessed October 31, 2016 (listing of former students who became professional basketball players).
  3. ↑ DeAndre Liggins Bio. University of Kentucky , archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; accessed on October 31, 2016 (English, player profile with short résumé).
  4. ↑ Associated Press : Kentucky's fabulous freshmen KO'd by Mountaineers. ESPN , March 27, 2010, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Associated Press : Kentucky vs. Connecticut - Game Recap: UConn nips Kentucky to advance to national championship game. ESPN , April 3, 2011, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  6. ^ Evan Dunlap: DeAndre Liggins Makes NBA Debut for Orlando Magic. Sports Blog Nation : OrlandoPinstripedPost.com, February 20, 2012, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Thunder vs. Grizzlies / Western Conference Semifinals / 2013 NBA Playoffs. National Basketball Association , accessed October 31, 2016 (overview page).
  8. ↑ Ben Golliver: Thunder release DeAndre Liggins following arrest on domestic abuse charges. Sports Illustrated , September 6, 2013, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  9. ^ D-League All-Star Game Rosters. RealGM.net, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  10. ^ A b Sioux Falls' DeAndre Liggins Named 2015-16 NBA Development League Defensive Player Of The Year. NBA Development League , April 13, 2016, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Polar bears sign DeAndre Liggins. Eisbären Bremerhaven , February 27, 2015, accessed on October 31, 2016 (media information).
  12. ^ Rosters for NBA Development League All-Star Game Presented By Kumho Tire. NBA Development League , February 13, 2016, accessed October 31, 2016 (English, media info).
  13. ↑ Brian Kotloff: Sioux Falls Skyforce Cap Historic Season with First NBA D-League title. NBA Development League , April 28, 2015, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  14. ^ Joe Vardon, DeAndre Liggins' Cavs contract partially guaranteed; dialogue with JR Smith continues. The Plain Dealer : Cleveland.com, September 26, 2016, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Bucks awarded DeAndre Liggins , nba.com, last accessed October 20, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Liggins, DeAndre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liggins, DeAndre Desmond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois, USA