Isaac Bonga

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Basketball player
Isaac Bonga
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Player information
Full name Isaac Evolue Etue Bofenda Bonga
birthday November 8, 1999 (20 years and 298 days)
place of birth Neuwied , Germany
size 203 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Point Guard , Shooting Guard
NBA draft 2018 , 39th Pick , Los Angeles Lakers
Club information
society Washington Wizards
league NBA
Jersey number 17th
Clubs as active
0000–2016 GermanyGermany SG Lützel-Post Koblenz
2016-2018 GermanyGermany Skyliners Frankfurt
2018-2019 United StatesUnited States Los Angeles Lakers
2018-2019 → South Bay LakersUnited StatesUnited States
2019– United StatesUnited States Washington Wizards
National team 1
Since 002018GermanyGermany Germany 8 games
1 As of 08/28/2019

Isaac Evolue Etue Bofenda Bonga (born November 8, 1999 in Neuwied ) is a German basketball player . He has been part of the Washington Wizards team since 2019 . Bonga is 206 centimeters tall and can be used as a build-up or wing player.

Player career

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Bonga comes from the youth department of the Post SV Koblenz. During the 2014/15 season he gained his first experience in the men's division and rose from the 2nd to the 1st regional league with SG Lützel-Post Koblenz.

In the 2015/16 season, Bonga played for Koblenz in the 1st Regionalliga Süd-West and scored an average of 5.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and two assists in 24 appearances. In addition, thanks to a double license, he played in the U19 Bundesliga team of Eintracht Frankfurt .

In June 2016, he signed a four-year contract with Bundesliga club Frankfurt Skyliners in order to be introduced to the Bundesliga squad via the third division youth team of Hessen. Also in June, Bonga was invited to the Top 100 Camp , an NBA screening event in the United States. In September of the same year he was nominated as one of the most hopeful talents of his year in Europe for the “Basketball without Borders Camp” in Helsinki.

On the first day of the Bundesliga season 2016/17, Bonga made his debut in the top German division for Frankfurt in a duel with Bamberg. In February 2017, he was invited to the “Basketball without Borders Camp” in New Orleans to compete against talent from all over the world. Following the 2016/17 season, he was named ProB's “League Newcomer of the Year” by the internet service eurobasket.com , having scored an average of 10.5 points and 6.2 rebounds in the third-highest German league in 21 appearances for the Frankfurt youth development team as well as four basket templates. For the Bundesliga team of the Skyliners, Bonga made 15 appearances (points average: 1.4) during the 2016/17 season. In the course of the 2017/18 season, Bonga was used by the Frankfurt team in 33 Bundesliga games, scoring an average of six points per game.

NBA

In April 2018, he signed up for the NBA draft process . There the Los Angeles Lakers secured the rights to Bonga in the second selection round in 39th place. The Philadelphia 76ers had given the right to vote in advance to the Lakers and in return received a second-round selection right for the 2019 draft as well as a sum of money.

In July 2018, Bonga signed a three-year entry contract with partial guarantees with the Los Angeles Lakers, where another German player was already under contract with Moritz Wagner . His previous club, the Frankfurt Skyliners, received a transfer fee of 650,000 euros. Bonga was used by Los Angeles in preparation games, but was moved to the squad of the South Bay Lakers training team in the NBA G-League on October 22, 2018 . On his debut for the South Bay Lakers at the beginning of November 2018, Bonga was the best scorer of his team with 27 points and 29 minutes of play, and in the 106: 108 defeat against the Stockton Kings he had nine rebounds and three assists. With Moritz Wagner , a fellow countryman Bongas also made his league debut in the same game.

On December 7, 2018, Bonga was the youngest active NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers for the first time in an NBA game. His team lost at the debut of the German with 120: 133 against the San Antonio Spurs , Bonga remained without points in the short run. Bonga played 19 games in his first year in the NBA, averaging 0.9 points per encounter. In the summer break of 2019, the Lakers Bonga and other players gave according to media reports as part of an extensive swap and the commitment of Anthony Davis to the Washington Wizards .

National team

In the summer of 2014, Bonga took part in the European Championship in Latvia with the German U16 national team, and in the following year he represented the selection of the German Basketball Federation in the same age group at the European Championships in Lithuania. At the U19 World Cup in July 2017, Bonga was used in all seven tournament games and reached fifth place with the German team. He recorded an average of 6.6 points per game over the course of the tournament.

At the beginning of November 2017, he was appointed to the German senior national team for the first time. On February 23, 2018, he made his debut in the DBB selection in the World Cup qualifier against Serbia, making him the youngest debutant in the German national team in the past 40 years at the age of 18 years and three months.

Play style

A distinctive feature of bongas is its height, which is above average for a playmaker. He has his strengths in switching from defense to attack, where he attracts attention with fluid movements. Bonga has a strong urge to the basket, locks itself in such scenes or places the ball on better placed teammates. He uses his height against smaller opponents, in defense he benefits from his long arms to intercept opposing passes and he also uses his physical advantages to block throws. His distance throw is considered a weak point.

Personal

Bonga's parents emigrated to Germany from the Democratic Republic of the Congo . He was born in Neuwied Hospital and grew up in the Koblenz district of Lützel . His older brother Tarsis Bonga played soccer in the youth team at Bayer 04 Leverkusen , then moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf's U23 team and now plays in the third division for Chemnitzer FC .

Isaac Bonga dropped out of school after eleventh grade to focus on his basketball career.

statistics

NBA

Main round

season team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2018–19 Los Angeles Lakers 22nd 0 5.5 15.2 0 60.0 1.1 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.9
2019-20 Washington Wizards 66 49 18.9 50.4 35.2 81.2 3.4 1.2 0.7 0.3 5.0
total 88 49 15.6 46.1 31.6 78.0 2.8 1.0 0.6 0.3 4.0

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Games by Isaac Bonga. Mahr.SB-Vision.de, accessed on December 29, 2019 (statistics on semi-official website).
  2. ↑ HEIGHT 6 ft 9 in WEIGHT 203 lbs.
  3. ↑ NBBL / JBBL - Player Statistics - - Eintracht Frankfurt / FRAPORT SKYLINERS. In: statistik.basketball-bundesliga.de. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Jonas Thiele, Thomas Nawrath: Fraport Skyliners sign young international player Isaac Bonga. On: Fraport Skyliners website; Frankfurt am Main, June 3, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  5. ↑ 2016 NBA Top 100 camp player roster. HoopSeen, accessed June 18, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Bonga and Herkenhoff at Basketball without Borders. German Basketball Association, accessed on July 29, 2016 .
  7. ↑ easyCredit - 2016-09-23 BAM-FRA. In: www.easycredit-bbl.de. Retrieved September 23, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Learning from and with the best «German Basketball Association. Retrieved March 16, 2017 .
  9. ↑ http://www.eurobasket.com/Germany/basketball-League-ProB_2016-2017.asp
  10. ↑ https://sports.abs-cbn.com/nba/news/2018/04/25/2018-nba-draft-sees-236-early-entry-candidates-40752
  11. ↑ Perform Media Deutschland GmbH: NBA Draft 2018: Moritz Wagner and Isaac Bonga drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers . June 22, 2018 ( spox.com [accessed June 22, 2018]).
  12. ↑ 2018 NBA Draft: Lakers acquire 39th pick from Sixers . In: Lakers Outsiders . June 21, 2018 ( lakersoutsiders.com [accessed June 22, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Bonga signs rookie contract with Lakers. Retrieved July 7, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Los Angeles Lakers assign Isaac Bonga to South Bay - South Bay Lakers . In: South Bay Lakers . ( Online [accessed October 29, 2018]).
  15. ↑ https://gleague.nba.com/games/20181103/STOSBL/
  16. ↑ NN: NBA match report: LA Lakers lose heavily on Isaac Bonga's debut - Pöltl. On: Spox website; Unterföhring, December 8, 2018. Accessed December 8, 2018.
  17. ↑ Isaac Bonga. In: stats.nba.com. Accessed April 5, 2019 .
  18. ↑ https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/la-sp-lakers-wizards-anthony-davis-trade-lebron-james-20190627-story.html
  19. ↑ Isaac Evolue Etue B. Bonga profile, U16 European Championship Men 2015 | FIBA.COM. In: FIBA.COM. Retrieved June 18, 2016 .
  20. ↑ http://www.fiba.basketball/fr/world/u19/2017/Germany#tab=overview,average_statistics
  21. ^ DBB men: Rödl nominates the German Basketball Federation. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
  22. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/basketball/startseite/718089/artikel_quali-ueberraschung_deutschland-schlaegt-serbien.html
  23. ↑ Latest Laker: Isaac Bonga. Accessed April 5, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Lakers secure rights to Frankfurt's talent Isaac Bonga. June 23, 2018, accessed April 5, 2019 .
  25. ↑ “If people think I'm good or not, I'm not interested in that” - German talent Bonga. In: heinnews. January 13, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016 (American English).
  26. ↑ Isaac Bonga already had "a lot of talent" in Lützel: Koblenzer wants to join the NBA ( memento of November 17, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), In: rhein-zeitung.de. May 4, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2019
  27. ↑ RP ONLINE: Local sport: Tarsis Bonga redeems Bayer's A-Juniors very late. In: RP ONLINE. Retrieved October 2, 2016 .
  28. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated May 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / Verein.fraport-skyliners.de
  29. ↑ Dominik Mingram, Thomas Nawrath: Isaac Bonga in conversation. Interview on: Fraport Skyliners website; Frankfurt am Main, August 2, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  30. ↑ Isaac Bonga. Los Angeles Lakers, # 17, Point Guard. On: Entertainment and Sports Programming Network website; Burbank, CA, undated in 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2019 (in English).
personal data
SURNAME Bonga, Isaac
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonga, Isaac Evolue Etue Bofenda (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwied