George Devone

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George Ellis Devone (born February 21, 1959 ) is a former American basketball player who played in Germany  in the basketball Bundesliga as a professional.

career

The eight-foot-tall , indoor player from Clinton , North Carolina , studied and played between 1977 and 1981 at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) in the NCAA . Devone achieved his best statistical values ​​within these four years in his final season 1980/81, when he averaged 10.2 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. In the  1981 NBA Draft , the Detroit Pistons secured the rights to DeVone in the fifth selection round.

Devone played as a professional for Bundesliga club SSV Hagen (1981/82 season), later for FC Bayern Munich , first in the 2nd basketball league , then between 1987 and 1989 in the basketball league . In 1989 he switched to TV Germania Trier, with whom he rose from the second to the first division and then played for the Moselaner in the top German division.

From 1993 to 1995 Devone played for Post-SV Bonn, the predecessor club of Telekom Baskets Bonn , in the 2nd Bundesliga.

Then he ran for the BG Koblenz in the second division.

In the 1998/99 season he briefly jumped in for Trier again in the Bundesliga and played four games there. In total, he scored 2068 points in the Bundesliga over the course of his career.

After his sporting career, Devone stayed in Trier, where he lived with his German wife and their children. At Trimmelter SV he was partly active as a trainer.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bonn: Taylor's whereabouts celebrated as a new addition . In: DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH (ed.): Basketball magazine, special issue 1994/95 . S. 17 .
  2. ^ Men's basketball roster - Charlotte 49ers. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ George Devone College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ InsideHoops.com - 1981 NBA Draft. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Basketball archive . In: basketball archive . ( wixsite.com [accessed March 20, 2018]).
  6. ↑ History - FC Bayern Basketball. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 19, 2015 ; accessed on December 15, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcb-basketball.de
  7. ↑ See you soon, Bundesliga! TBB Trier says goodbye to the BBL after 25 years - last home game against MBC. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  8. ↑ HOLGER KLEIN: Bonn basketball 1993 on the edge . In: Kölnische Rundschau . ( rundschau-online.de [accessed December 15, 2017]).
  9. ↑ RZ-Online GmbH: Basketball: Home victory should take pressure off. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Player statistics - George Devone - HERZOGtel Trier. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 16, 2017 ; accessed on December 15, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / statistik.beko-bbl.de
  11. ↑ The best first division scorers since '75 . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 54 .
  12. ↑ Freestyle - Sport in Trier. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Devone, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Devone, George Ellis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1959