Dontaye Draper
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| Player information | ||
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| Full name | Dontaye Dominic Draper | |
| birthday | August 10, 1984 | |
| place of birth | Baltimore , United States | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | Point guard | |
| High school | Wallbrook Trinity-Pawling |
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| college | College of Charleston | |
| Club information | ||
| society | real Madrid | |
| league | League ACB | |
| Clubs as active | ||
2007–2008 Sydney Kings 2008 Hyères Toulon Var Basket 2008–2009 BC Ostend 2009–2010 Veroli Basket 2010–2012 KK Cedevita 2012–2014 Real Madrid 2014–2015 Anadolu Efes SK 2015–2016 Lokomotive Kuban Since 2016 Real Madrid       
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| 2011– | Croatia | |
Dontaye Dominic Draper (born August 10, 1984 in Baltimore ) is an American - Croatian basketball player . He plays in the position of point guard .
career
Dontaye Draper began his career at Wallbrook High School in Baltimore and Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling , New York . After graduating in 2003, he went to the College of Charleston , where he played for the Charleston Cougars in the Southern Conference of the NCAA until 2007 . He had his most successful season in 2006/07 when he reached the conference finals with his team and was elected to the All-Tournament team.
In the NBA Draft 2007 he did not choose a team and so he decided to switch to the Australian NBL to the Sydney Kings , with whom he failed until the 2007/08 championship finals at the Melbourne Tigers . In the following season Draper went to Europe, where he was initially in the service of the French club Hyères Toulon Var Basket , but in December 2008 moved to Belgium , to BC Ostend . The 2009/10 season he played in the second Italian division for Veroli Basket before moving to Croatian club KK Cedevita in the summer of 2010 . Here he achieved his sporting breakthrough, in his first season he reached the final of the Croatian Championship and third place at the ULEB Eurocup , where he was also elected MVP of the competition and the All-Tournament Team. In the 2011/12 season Draper won the Croatian Cup with his team and surprisingly reached the final in the ABA league , where they lost 77:87 to Maccabi Tel Aviv .
In August 2012, Draper moved to the Spanish ACB league for Real Madrid , where he signed a two-year contract. In the 2012/13 season he won the Spanish championship and the Supercup with Real Madrid , and he and his team reached the final of the Euroleague . In the following game year he reached two more titles with the Supercup and the Cup, his team was again in the final of the Euroleague, but lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv. At the end of the season, Draper moved to the Turkish club Anadolu Efes SK , where he signed a two-year contract.
National team
Draper received Croatian citizenship during his first season in Croatia. He played for the national team at the 2011 , 2013 and 2015 European Basketball Championships . He achieved the best result at an EM in 2013 with 4th place.
Achievements and honors
Anadolu Efes
- Turkish Cup: 2015
real Madrid
- Spanish championship : 2012/13
- Spanish Cup : 2013/14
- Spanish Supercup : 2012, 2013
KK Cedevita
- Croatian Cup : 2011/12
Honors
- ULEB Eurocup - MVP and All-Tournament First-Team: 2010/11
- Southern Conference All-Tournament Team: 2006/07
Web links
- Profile on eurocupbasketball.com (English)
- NCAA statistics on sports-reference.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2006-2007 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament. In: realgm.com. Retrieved May 2, 2012 .
- ↑ 2010-11 Eurocup MVP: Dontaye Draper, Cedevita Zagreb. In: eurocupbasketball.com. April 7, 2011, accessed May 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Draper company su contrato con el Real Madrid. (No longer available online.) In: realmadrid.com. August 13, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 21, 2012 (Spanish). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Anadolu Efes signs prolific point guard Dontaye Draper ... (No longer available online.) In: anadoluefessporkulubu.org. July 2, 2014, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on July 3, 2014 . 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 | Draper, Dontaye |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Draper, Dontaye Dominic (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Croatian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore , United States |