Derrick Phelps
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| Full name | Derrick Michael Phelps | |
| Nickname | general | |
| birthday | July 31, 1972 | |
| place of birth | Queens (NYC), USA | |
| size | 193 cm | |
| position | Point guard | |
| college | North Carolina (Chapel Hill) | |
| NBA draft | Exp 1995 , Vancouver Grizzlies | |
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1990–1994 UNC Tar Heels ( NCAA ) 1994–1996 Chicago Rockers ( CBA ) 1995 Sacramento Kings 1996–1997 TTL Bamberg 1997 La Crosse Bobcats (CBA) 1997–1998 Rockford Lightning (CBA) 1998–2000 Telekom Baskets Bonn 2000–2002 Alba Berlin 2002–2003 CSP Limoges 2003–2004 EnBW Ludwigsburg 2004 Śląsk Wrocław 2004–2005 EiffelTowers Nijmegen 2005–2006 GHP Bamberg 2006–2007 Spartak Primorje 2009–2010 Gaz Metan Mediaș      
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Derrick Phelps (born July 31, 1972 in New York City's Queens borough ) is a former American basketball player who played as a professional, especially in Europe , including several seasons in the German basketball league . Because of his game overview and the ability to act as point guard to direct and playmaker the play of his team, he got the nickname General . With Alba Berlin Phelps was twice German champion , while he was double winner in 2002 with victory in the cup competition .
United States
While studying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Phelps played for the prestigious Tar Heels basketball team under Dean Smith . In 1993 he won the national championship of the NCAA Division I together with Donald Williams, Henrik Rödl , George Lynch and Eric Montross in a dramatic final against the later disqualified Wolverines of the University of Michigan , that by a technical error of the college star and later number 1 picks in the 1993 NBA Draft Chris Webber was decided when he was in possession of the ball and demanded a no longer available time out in the final seconds. Phelps still holds the record for most ball wins of his college career and one game in the tar heels, for which Michael Jordan was also active in college.
After he was not selected in the 1994 NBA draft , Phelps first played two seasons for the Chicago Rockers in the Continental Basketball Association after completing his studies . At the end of the 1994/95 season he came to three brief appearances with the Sacramento Kings in the NBA . He was also in the squad at the training camps before the start of the season at the Milwaukee Bucks (1994) and the Philadelphia 76ers (1997) and was selected in the expansion draft in 1995 by new league Vancouver Grizzlies, but never appointed to the season squad. After a season in Germany in 1996/97, he returned to the CBA for the 1997/98 season to play for the Rockers , who had now been transferred to La Crosse as Bobcats , and Rockford Lightning.
Europe
In 1996 Phelps was signed by TTL Bamberg for the BBL season 1996/97 . Bamberg was eliminated this season in the play-off semi- finals against the promoted and later runner-up Telekom Baskets Bonn. This club finally committed Phelps himself, where he played from 1998 to 2000 and 1999 was able to achieve another runner-up for the club. For the 2000/01 BBL season , Phelps was finally signed by the dominant series champion Alba Berlin and he and his teammates, including his Tar Heels teammate Henrik Rödl, achieved two further championships in 2001 and 2002, the latter in combination with the cup victory as a double. In 2002 Phelps moved to Limoges, France, for the 1993 European Cup winner Cercle Saint-Pierre (CSP), who was in crisis and was only just able to avoid relegation that season before it was dissolved the following year. Phelps had already returned to the German BBL in the 2003/04 season and competed for EnBW Ludwigsburg, which stumbled in sporting terms and only remained in the league because of the bankruptcies of Brandt Hagen and FIBA EuroCup Challenge winner MBC Weissenfels . After a few games for the Polish club Śląsk from Breslau , Phelps was active in the 2004/05 season for the EiffelTowers from Nijmegen , Netherlands . While the team merged with EBDC Den Bosch in 2005 and moved to Den Bosch , Phelps moved back to Bamberg , where he began his European career in 1996. In the 2005/06 BBL season the defending champion with Phelps ended up in the championship semifinals in 1997, this time against the eventual champions RheinEnergie Köln .
Subsequently, Phelps was still active for Spartak Primorje from Vladivostok on the Pacific coast in the Asian part of Russia . In the 2009/10 season he also played under his former Bonn coach Bruno Socé at the Romanian club from Medias .
Web links
- easyCredit BBL - Derrick Phelps - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
- ALBA BERLIN: # 8 - Derrick Phelps - Profile on the pages of AlbaBerlin.de
- PHELPS, DERRICK - player profile on the ULEB Euroleague website
- Derrick Phelps - player profile on basketball-reference.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Carolina Basketball 2011-12 Fact & Records Book - Statistical Addendum. (PDF (5.91 MB)) (No longer available online.) UNC Chapel Hill , p. 54 , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 1, 2012 (English). 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.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Phelps, Derrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Queens , New York City |