Denzel Valentine

Denzel Valentine
Player information
Full name	Denzel Robert Valentine
birthday	16th November 1993 (age 26)
place of birth	Lansing , Michigan , United States
size	193 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college	Michigan State
NBA draft	2016 , 14th pick Chicago Bulls
Club information
society	Chicago Bulls
league	NBA
Jersey number	45
Clubs as active
2012–2016 MSU Spartans ( NCAA ) Chicago Bulls since 2016 00
National team 1
201500000	United States
1 As of November 17, 2016

Denzel Valentine medal table
Basketball (men)
United States
Pan American Games
bronze	2015 Toronto

Denzel Robert Valentine (born November 16, 1993 in Lansing , Michigan ) is an American basketball player who is currently active for the Chicago Bulls in the North American professional league NBA .

At the end of his studies in 2016, Valentine was recognized by various committees as the best basketball player of the NCAA before he was selected by the Bulls in 14th position in the subsequent NBA Entry Draft .

Career

college

After finishing school at JW Sexton High School in Lansing , Valentine began studying at Michigan State University where his father, Carlton Valentine, had studied and played basketball. From 2012, Denzel Valentine played for four years for the university team Spartans under coach Tom Izzo in the Big Ten Conference of the NCAA . During Valentine's student days, the team won the Big Ten Tournament in 2014 and 2016 , with Valentine being honored as the best player of the final tournament when he last won the title, having already been named "Player of the Year" at the Big Ten Conference.

In the national NCAA finals , the Spartans , who last won the title in 2000, were initially able to steadily improve with Valentine. After reaching the last sixteen in Sweet Sixteen 2013, when they were defeated by the Duke Blue Devils , the team failed a year later in the "regional final" of the Elite Eight at the eventual title winner UConn Huskies , before moving into the prestigious Final Four tournament in 2015 . There the team lost again in the semifinals to the later title winner Duke Blue Devils. In the following final round in 2016, the team, including the German Gavin Schilling, was one of the favorites to win the title after winning the Big Ten tournament again, but was defeated in one of the biggest surprises in NCAA history in the opening game of the clearly weaker Blue Raiders from Middle Tennessee State University . He competed with Buddy Hield in the awarding of several awards : Valentine received, in some cases before and afterwards, several individual awards as Player of the Year of the NCAA, for example from the Association of College Basketball Coaches NABC, the Associated Press , NBC Sports and other bodies.

Back in 2015, Valentine was named to the United States' selection for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto . For the first time, the national team consisted of a mixed selection of professionals from overseas such as Bobby Brown and Keith Langford, as well as student players from the NCAA such as Taurean Prince , Malcolm Brogdon and Valentine, but without NBA players. After a preliminary round defeat against eventual title winners Brazil , the team narrowly lost the semi-finals against hosts Canada , before they secured the bronze medal against the Dominican Republic in the "small final" .

NBA

A year later in 2016, after finishing his studies in the NBA Draft , Valentine was selected two places behind Prince in 14th place by the Chicago Bulls . In the 2016/17 game year he played 57 main round games for Chicago and averaged 5.1 points per game. He doubled this value in 2017/18 when he posted 10.2 points per game in 77 NBA appearances. In November 2018, he had to undergo an ankle surgery and therefore missed the entire 2018/19 season.

Web links

• Denzel Valentine - player profile on NBA.com
• Denzel Valentine - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• Denzel Valentine - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Denzel Valentine Bio - player profile on the sports pages of Michigan State University (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Denzel Valentine Stats. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Official NBA bio of Denzel Valentine. Retrieved April 21, 2020 (English). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Denzel Valentine wins AP Player of the Year over Buddy Hield. Sports Illustrated , March 31, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Associated Press : Michigan State defeats Purdue, 66-62, to win Big Ten crown. (No longer available online.) Big Ten Conference , March 12, 2016, archived from the original on July 8, 2016 ; accessed on July 8, 2016 . 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.  
5. ^ Denzel Valentine Named Big Ten Player of the Year. Michigan State University , March 7, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Mark Rutherford: Middle Tennessee State's win over Michigan State is the biggest upset in NCAA Tournament history. Sports Blog Nation , March 18, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Chris Solari: MSU's Denzel Valentine named NABC Player of the Year. Lansing State Journal, March 29, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Rob Dauster: NBCSports.com Postseason Awards: Player of the Year, Coach of the Year and All-Americans. NBC , March 8, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016 . 
9. ^ The Lute Olson Award. CollegeInsider.com, April 4, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016 (Lute Olson Award). 
10. ^ Jason Hutton: Denzel Valentine named National Player of the Year by USA Today. Fox Sports , March 8, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Seventeenth Pan American Games - 2015. USA Basketball , July 30, 2015, accessed July 8, 2016 (English, tournament history and roster). 
12. ↑ Valentine will undergo surgery on left ankle, will miss 4-6 months. November 19, 2018, accessed October 18, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Remember me? Denzel Valentine is back from ankle surgery. September 30, 2019, accessed October 18, 2019 .