Deon Thompson

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Basketball player
Deon Thompson
Deon Thompson
Player information
Full name Deon Marshall Thompson
birthday September 16, 1988 (31 years 350 days)
place of birth Torrance , California , United States
size 204 cm
position Power forward
college North Carolina
Club information
society Unicaja Málaga
league ACB
Clubs as active
2006–2010 UNC Tar Heels ( NCAA ) 2010–2011 Ikaros Esperos 2011–2012 KK Union Olimpija 2012–2013 ALBA Berlin 2013–2014 FC Bayern Munich 2014–2015 Liaoning Flying Leopards 2015 Hapoel Jerusalem 2015–2016 FC Bayern Munich 2016 Galatasaray Istanbul Since 2017 KK Red Star BelgradeUnited StatesUnited States
GreeceGreece
SloveniaSlovenia
GermanyGermany
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China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
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000 0TurkeyTurkey
0SerbiaSerbia

Deon Marshall Thompson (born September 16, 1988 in Torrance , California ) is an American basketball player who is currently under contract with the Turkish first division club Galatasaray Istanbul . The 2.04 meter tall and 109 kg heavy Thompson is mainly used in the position of the power forward and the center .

Career

college

Thompson moved from his Californian home to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the east coast. Their college team Tar Heels is one of the most renowned basketball teams of the NCAA . With this team he won the main round of the Atlantic Coast Conference three times from 2007 to 2009 and also twice the final tournament of this conference. While they lost the semifinals in this competition in 2009 against the underdog Seminoles of Florida State University , three weeks later they won the nationwide finals in the final against the Spartans of Michigan State University and brought the NCAA Division I basketball championship . Then the dominant player Tyler Hansbrough left the tar heels to become a professional in the NBA . After Thompson in the U19 World Youth Championship in 2007 in Serbian Novi Sad American US with the selection had won the silver medal he won with the US student selection of 2009, the bronze medal at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade , also at a tournament victory of the Serbian hosts that they had narrowly defeated in the second round. After the Tar Heels in three years always at least the quarter-finals of the nationwide finals had reached previously, had 2010 without Hansbrough just an average success rate and only got an invitation to the National Invitation Tournament , in which the final against the Flyers of the University of Dayton lost . In contrast to Hansbrough and other teammates of the 2009 championship team, Thompson, who with 152 appearances in NCAA championship games is one of the ten players in the NCAA with the most appearances of all time, was not selected in the 2010 NBA draft .

Ikaros Esperos and KK Union Olimpija

After finishing his studies in 2010 Thompson moved to Europe and played in Greece for Ikaros Esperos in the Athens suburb of Kallithea . He quickly managed to gain a foothold there and was elected to the All-Star Team in his first season in Europe . His club Ikaros Esperos, however, missed the play-offs for the Greek championship and Thompson moved to Slovenia for the following season. With KK Union Olimpija from Ljubljana, Thompson also played in the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 , in which the team was eliminated after just one win in ten games in the preliminary round. Although KK Union Olimpija was able to successfully defend its national cup title in 2012, with Thompson being elected MVP of the cup competition, the final series of the championship was again lost to defending champion and arch-rival KK Krka from Novo mesto . However, Thompson was again elected Allstar and was named MVP in the Allstar Game.

Alba Berlin and FC Bayern Munich

For the 2012/13 season, Thompson moved to the German club ALBA Berlin in the basketball Bundesliga . In his first season in Germany, Thompson was elected to the "All-BBL First Team". ALBA Berlin reached the intermediate round of the 16 best teams in the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 and won the Beko BBL Cup 2013 at national level , but was eliminated in the first round of the Play- offs for the championship against Bayern Munich. For the following season Basketball Bundesliga 2013/14 Thompson then moved like three of his teammates to Bayern, who, like ALBA, took part in the ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 with a “ wild card ” a year earlier and moved into the last 16 teams. Thompson was also German champion with Bayern in the same season.

Liaoning Flying Leopards, Hapoel Jerusalem, Bayern Munich and Galatasaray Istanbul

For the 2014/15 season, Thompson moved to China to the Liaoning Flying Leopards in the CBA . There he made it with his team to the final of the playoffs, but there they were subject to the Beijing Ducks . Since the season in China ends in March, Thompson signed with Hapoel Jerusalem on March 23 for the rest of the season . With this club he managed to defeat Hapoel Eilat in the final games of the playoffs and was surprisingly champion in the Ligat ha'Al .

For the 2015/16 season he returned to the basketball Bundesliga in Germany. There he signed a contract with Bayern Munich dated for over a year. Thus Thompson will again appear in the highest European club competition, the ULEB Euroleague 2015/16 .

After a year in the basketball league, Thompson moved to the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi for Galatasaray Istanbul .

successes

  • Silver medal U19 World Cup 2007 (Team USA)
  • Bronze medal Universiade 2009 (Team USA)
  • 2009 NCAA Championship
  • German cup winner 2013
  • German champion 2014
  • Israeli champion 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Power under the basket: Deon Thompson comes to Berlin ( Memento from August 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Shopping tour at competitor Alba Berlin continues: Bavaria is also getting Thompson ( Memento from August 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ Deon Thompson signs with Liaoning Flying Leoparda. August 26, 2014, accessed July 20, 2015 .
  4. ^ Deon Thompson signs with Hapoel Jerusalem. March 23, 2015, accessed July 20, 2015 .
  5. ^ NN: Deon Thompson returns to Bavaria. On: Schönen Dunk — Website; Berlin, July 20, 2015. Accessed March 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Thompson, Deon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, Deon Marshall (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Torrance , California , USA