Demond Greene

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Basketball player
Demond Greene
Demond Greene
Player information
birthday June 15, 1979
place of birth Fort Hood , United States
size 185 cm
position Shooting Guard
Clubs as active
1996-1997 GermanyGermany TuS Aschaffenburg
1997-2002 GermanyGermany DJK s.Oliver Würzburg
2002-2005 GermanyGermany Bayer Leverkusen
2005-2007 GermanyGermany Alba Berlin
2007-2009 GermanyGermany Brose Baskets
2009-2010 GreeceGreece Olympia Larisa
2010-2014 GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich
National team 1
2001-2010 GermanyGermany Germany 114 games
Clubs as coaches
2015-2018 GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich (youth coach)
2018-2020 GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich II
2020–0000 GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich (assistant coach)
1 As of September 2, 2010
Demond Greene medal table

Basketball (men)

GermanyGermany Germany
European Championship
silver 2005 Serbia and Montenegro Germany

Demond Greene (born June 15, 1979 in Fort Hood , Texas , United States ) is a former German national basketball player and current basketball coach, who was descended from an American father and a German mother.

Career

player

Demond Greene grew up in Aschaffenburg and initially did athletics. He only played club basketball from the age of 15.

Along with the future NBA -Star Dirk Nowitzki , he managed with the "X-Rays" from Würzburg in 1998 the rise of the 2nd Basketball League in the highest German league. Like Nowitzki, Greene was also supported by Holger Geschwindner . In 2002 he moved to the Bayer Giants from Leverkusen . After being appointed to the German national team for the first time in 2001 , he was able to develop into one of the best German throwers in the BBL in Leverkusen .

In the 2005/06 season he moved from the Bayer Giants to Alba Berlin, with whom he was German cup winner and runner-up in 2006. After the end of the 2006/07 season, the new Alba coach Luka Pavićević waived the extension of the expired contract and Greene moved at the beginning of the 2007/08 season for initially two years to the reigning German champions Brose Baskets in Bamberg . There his contract was not extended after the end of the 2008/2009 season. In the 2009/10 season he played for the Greek club Olympia Larisa in the Greek A1 Ethniki . National coach Dirk Bauermann , who had signed him for Brose Baskets in 2007, brought Greene back to Germany to support the FC Bayern Munich basketball team in advancing from ProA to the Bundesliga. This promotion was already successful in Greene's first season 2010/11, with Greene himself having to suspend most of the season due to an Achilles tendon injury .

With the German national team, Greene was runner-up at the 2005 European Basketball Championship. At the basketball world championship in Japan in 2006 , he became an important part of the German national team. In the lost quarterfinal game against the US selection , he managed a spectacular block against Dwyane Wade , who had caused bitter hours in the jersey of Miami Heat Greene's teammate Dirk Nowitzki in the finals of the 2005/06 NBA season a few weeks earlier. While he was still a pure defensive specialist at the EM 2005, he was already convincing on the defensive as well as on the offensive a year later. At the 2007 European Championships in Spain , Greene took 5th place with the national team under national coach Dirk Bauermann.

In August 2008 he took part with the German national team in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , for which Germany qualified with third place at the qualifying tournament in Athens . The German selection was eliminated in the preliminary round of this tournament and suffered a depressing defeat in the last game against the eventual Olympic champion from the United States, which with 57: 106 was the most clearly decided game of the entire 2008 Olympic tournament and one of the highest defeats of the national team at all. Greene played his last game for the national team on September 2, 2010 at the 2010 World Cup in the game against Jordan. A torn Achilles tendon in October 2010 made him lose touch with the team.

Greene played for many top German teams, but was only able to become German champions in 2014 with the FC Bayern Munich basketball team . However, he only played 00:37 minutes this championship season - he was on the field for the last 37 seconds in the last final game against Alba Berlin and had no contact with the ball.

Trainer

After the 2013-14 season , Greene ended his active career. He then interned in the youth department of FC Bayern Basketball and obtained his A-coaching license before joining the coaching staff at FC Bayern in November 2015. He took over the duties of assistant coach and athletic coach for the second men's team and the club's U19 team.

From the 2016/17 season Greene coached the FC Bayern Basketball U19 team, which he immediately led to the German championship in the NBBL . For the 2018/19 season he was promoted to head coach of the club's second men's team. During the summer break of 2020, he switched to Andrea Trinchieri's staff as assistant coach of the FCB Bundesliga team .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Diesel Demond. After a turbulent youth and a lot of work, professional basketball player Greene has made it to the national team. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 19, 2010, accessed August 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ex-sprinter Demond Greene wants to take off. In: bild.de. October 6, 2011, accessed August 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Long jumper under the basket. Alba's Demond Greene got into basketball late. In: tagesspiegel.de. October 23, 2005, accessed August 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Dwyane Wade blocked by Demond Greene. In: hoopnation.de. September 1, 2006, accessed August 24, 2018 .
  5. ↑ National basketball player Greene is out. In: focus.de. October 10, 2010, accessed August 24, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Demond Greene joins FC Bayern Basketball. In: bblprofis.de. November 19, 2015, accessed August 24, 2018 .
  7. ↑ FC Bayern Munich new NBBL champion! In: nbbl-basketball.de. May 28, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Demond Greene takes over the Bavarian ProB team. In: fcb-basketball.de. August 24, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  9. ↑ https://fcb-basketball.de/de/news/2020-2021/08/greene-vertemati-und-lindner-neu-in-trinchieris-trainerteam
personal data
SURNAME Greene, Demond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Hood , Texas , United States