Eric Boateng

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Basketball player
Eric Boateng
Eric Boateng
Player information
Full name Eric Yamoah Boateng
birthday 20th November 1985 (age 34)
place of birth London, UK
size 208 cm
position Power Forward / Center
college Arizona State
Club information
society Blois Basket 41
league NM1 France
Clubs as active
2005–2006 Duke Blue Devils ( NCAA ) 2007–2010 ASU Sun Devils (NCAA) 2010–2011 Idaho Stampede 2011 Austin Toros 2011–2012 GS Peristeri 2012–2013 New York Phantoms 2013 Club La Unión de Formosa 2014 EB Pau-Lacq-Orthez 2015 FC Mulhouse Basket Since 2015 ADA Blois Basket 41 United StatesUnited States
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Since 02006 Great Britain 60
1 As of July 1, 2012

Eric Yamoah Boateng (born November 20, 1985 in London ) is a British basketball player of Ghanaian descent. After studying in the United States , Boateng played a year in the NBA Development League before returning to Europe in 2011 and playing in Greece , Germany and France, interrupted by a trip to Argentina . With the British national team , Boateng took part in the 2011 European Championship and the 2012 Olympic Games in his hometown of London. He then played in the basketball league 2012/13 with the New York Phantoms from Braunschweig .

Career

Boateng came to basketball late at the age of 14 and moved to a US high school in Delaware , where he was named "High School Player of the Year" at the end of his school days and to "McDonald's All-American Boys Game" in 2005 was invited, in which a selection of the twelve best high school players of each year from the US East and West compete against each other. He was then accepted by Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, famous for its basketball team, where he played for the Blue Devils in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Here, however, he did not get along well and had hardly any playing time at the winner of the Conference 2006, who was eliminated in the last sixteen Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship . Therefore, he left Duke University and after a year moved to Arizona State University in Tempe (Arizona) , whose university teams Sun Devils played in the then Pac-10 Conference . He followed Herb Sendek, the coach of regional rival Wolfpack of North Carolina State University , who joined also in 2006 to Arizona State. Due to the change of university, Boateng had to suspend one year of championship games according to the regulations of the NCAA. Despite his unpromising premiere in college, Boateng was appointed from the start as a promising young talent in the British national basketball team, which was newly formed in 2006 and which had been re-formed on the occasion of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. With the national selection Boateng was able to qualify for the circle of the best national teams of FIBA Europe in Division A. Arizona States coach Sendek was able to revive the basketball program of the Sun Devils, who are otherwise traditionally strong in American football and in basketball are in the shadow of regional rival Wildcats of the University of Arizona , among other things by winning James Harden for the Sun Devils. In the first year of Boateng's game, qualification for the postseason succeeded for the first time when they were invited to the National Invitation Tournament in 2008 . After the final defeat in the championship tournament of the Conference reached the second round in the national final of the NCAA 2009. After the loss of Harden, who moved prematurely to the most highly endowed US professional league NBA , these successes could not be repeated in 2010.

After completing his studies in 2010, Boateng was not selected in the NBA Draft , but was able to recommend himself for a preliminary contract with the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Summer League in the jersey of the New York Knicks . There he was deleted from the final season squad before the start of the season and given to their farm team at the time, Idaho Stampede, in the NBA Development League. In January 2011, Boateng moved within the league to the Austin Toros. After Boateng was deleted in 2009 as one of the last players from the final squad of the British national team, which had qualified for a final round of the European Basketball Championships for the first time , he was at the renewed participation in the European Championship finals in 2011 . The British were eliminated with two wins out of five games in the first round. In the 2011/12 season, Boateng joined the Greek first division club GS Peristeri from a suburb of the capital Athens in November 2011 . After only seven championship games, the contract was terminated in January 2012 after Boateng was injured. Despite the early end of the season, Boateng was able to play in the Olympic squad of the British national team, which was automatically qualified to host the 2012 Olympic Games . At the Olympic basketball tournament in his hometown, Boateng was used in three games, most of them with the final high victory over China , where he marked ten points and six rebounds in 14 minutes. The only victory in five preliminary round games could not prevent the host's early elimination from the tournament, while Boateng's former teammate James Harden was able to defend the Olympic victory with the favored US selection .

For the basketball Bundesliga 2012/13 Boateng moved to the German first division club NewYorker Phantoms , who signed a trial contract for the entire season. It was not enough for Braunschweiger to be more than relegated again in the season in which Boateng came up with almost eight points and six rebounds per game. For the 2013/2014 season, Boateng did not receive a new contract in Braunschweig after a new head coach had taken over the team. Boateng participated in various NBA team workouts in the summer and was invited to the Los Angeles Lakers training camp in October 2013 . He then played in Argentina in November and December 2013 for Club La Union from Formosa . In January 2014 he finally got a fixed-term contract with the traditional French club and first division returnee Élan Béarnais from Pau , with whom he stayed for only one month and left after five missions. A year later he was active again in France, but only in the third division NM1 with the former first division club and former European Cup participant from Mulhouse in Alsace . After he missed promotion in the play-offs, Boateng moved to the following season for league rivals ADA Basket 41 from Blois on the Loire .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eric Boateng convinces and completes the Phantoms squad. Phantoms Braunschweig , September 25, 2012, accessed on September 30, 2012 (media info).
  2. ^ Brian Heyman: Career Begun in London Is Flourishing in Desert. International Herald Tribune , November 26, 2009, accessed August 20, 2012 .
  3. ^ A b John Hobbs: Boateng still dreaming of London. Talkbasket.net, January 18, 2012, accessed August 20, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Player Statistics - Eric Boateng. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on June 28, 2015 (profile on statistics pages).
  5. ↑ Eric Boateng - Joueurs - Pro A. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed on June 28, 2015 (French, player profile).
personal data
SURNAME Boateng, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boateng, Eric Yamoah (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England