Jeff Bonds

Jeff Bonds
Player information
Full name	Jeffrey Bonds junior
birthday	May 14, 1982
place of birth	Los Angeles (CA), USA
size	201 cm
position	Power forward
college	Cal Poly Pomona
Club information
society	Oberwart Gunners
league	OJ
Clubs as active
2001–2005 CSPU Broncos ( NCAA Div II) 2005–2006 Birmingham Bullets 2006–2007 Sheffield Sharks 2007–2008 Bàsquet Muro 2008–2009 Viopisa Gijón 2009–2010 Bàsquet Mallorca 2010–2011 LOBE Huesca 2011–2012 K-Net & Éniac Clavijo 2012 Los Angeles Lightning (IBA) 2012–2013 LTi Gießen 46ers 2013 Lapuan Korikobrat since 2013 Oberwart Gunners 00000 00000 0

Jeffrey Bonds junior (born May 14, 1982 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American basketball player . After graduating, Bonds first played in the British Basketball League (BBL), where he was named “Co- Most Valuable Player ” (MVP) of the BBL in 2007 . He then played in the second and third Spanish LEB Oro y Plata . In the 2012/13 season he played for four weeks with the Gießen 46ers in the German basketball league and for six weeks in the Finnish Korisliiga . For the 2013/14 season he got a contract with the Austrian runner-up Redwell Gunners from Oberwart .

Career

Bonds went to study at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona , where he played from 2001 for the university team Broncos in the " Conference " California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) of the NCAA Division II. With the Broncos, he won the CCAA championship twice in 2004 and 2005. Bonds is the " top scorer " of the Broncos in their eternal best list and also in other categories among the "top ten" of the eternal best list. When he graduated in 2005 he was named by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), along with players such as Brad Oleson , David Logan and Mark Worthington, as an “ All-American ” among the top 20 basketball players in Division II in the 2004 season / 05 elected.

Although Bonds had only played for a college division II team, he began a career as a professional basketball player after graduating in 2005. For the 2005/06 season he got a contract in the British Basketball League (BBL) with the Bullets from Birmingham . The Bullets had last qualified for the play-offs of the best eight teams in the BBL in 2002 and were in decline, both sportily and economically. At the end of the season they finished last in the table for the third time in a row, with nine victories this season and a win rate of almost 25%, their success rate significantly increased compared to the two previous years. Nevertheless, after the end of the season, like the formerly leading BBL franchises London Towers and Brighton Bears , they were withdrawn from the closed professional league BBL. For the 2006/07 season, Bonds got a contract with league rivals Sharks from Sheffield , who at the end of the season took second place in regular time behind the main round first Guildford Heat . Together with Brian Dux from the Heat, Bonds received the award as “ Most Valuable Player ” (MVP) of the BBL season. In the semifinals of the playoffs lost the Sharks against defending champions Newcastle Eagles , against which they had lost in the semifinals of the Cup competition BBL Trophy, but were able to win the game for third place against the Heat, against them in the semi-finals of the League Cup BBL Cup excreted were.

For the 2007/08 season, Bonds moved to the third Spanish league LEB Plata for the team from Muro (Mallorca) , which finished twelfth at the end of the season. In the 2008/09 season, Bonds played for previous league rivals Calefacciones Farho from Gijón , who had previously failed in the semi-finals of the play-offs on promotion to the second division. However, after ten wins of the season, this only reached fourth from bottom of the table and the professional basketball team, which had played in the top division in the 1980s and the beginning of the decade, the club was then dissolved. Bonds then returned to Mallorca, where Muro already played in the second division LEB Oro after the merger with Drac Inca as Bàsquet Mallorca. The merger team improved in the second year of its existence to a twelfth place in the second division. In the 2010/11 season, Bonds then played for the second division promoted LOBE from Huesca , who, as a former first division team, had made their way back from the amateur leagues to the professional leagues until 1996 after 2005. As third from bottom of the final table, Huesca had achieved relegation at the end of the season. Then Bonds moved for the 2011/12 season to the promoted K-Net & Éniac from Clavijo near Logroño , who only missed the play-offs at the end of the season because of the poorer direct comparison .

After Bonds had played for Lightning in the International Basketball Association (IBA) in his hometown of Los Angeles in the summer of 2012, he only got a contract in Europe from the German first division club LTi 46ers from Gießen at the end of the year . The relegation-threatened club signed him in mid-December, but a week later the club filed for bankruptcy. Almost four weeks later, after only five appearances with a sharply decreasing playing time in the basketball league , the league organization of the basketball league after the bankruptcy petition no longer had the right to play for the bond, which was committed until the end of the season, at the club that played under bankruptcy law was no longer extended. In mid-February, Bonds had an engagement in Finland with Korikobrat from Lapua , who had been newly admitted to the Korisliiga . This engagement ended after just six weeks at the end of March 2013.

Web links

• Federación Española de Baloncesto: Bonds JR, Jeffrey - player profile on the websites of the FEB (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cal Poly Pomona Men's Basketball 2012-13 Record Book. (PDF (5.2 MB)) California State Polytechnic University, Pomona , February 8, 2013, p. 6 , accessed on July 10, 2013 . 
2. ^ All-America - Division II (2000's): 2004-05 All-America Team. NABC.org, accessed July 10, 2013 (list of excellent players). 
3. ↑ 2006–07 BBL Championship & Playoffs. British Basketball League , accessed July 10, 2013 (season summary). 
4. ↑ New addition Jeff Bonds passes medical check. Giessen 46ers , December 14, 2012, accessed on July 10, 2013 (media info). 
5. ↑ Beko BBL - Player Statistics - Jeffrey Bonds - LTi Giessen 46ers. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on July 10, 2013 (player profile on statistics pages). 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.  
6. ↑ LTi 46ers have to forego the use of Jeff Bonds with immediate effect. Giessen 46ers , January 12, 2013, accessed on July 10, 2013 (Medien-Info).