Jonas Jerebko

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Basketball player
Jonas Jerebko
Jonas Jerebko 2019 NBA Playoffs (cropped) .jpg
Player information
birthday 2nd March 1987 (age 33)
place of birth Kinna , Sweden
size 208 cm
Weight 105 kg
position Power forward
NBA draft 2009 , 39th Pick, Detroit Pistons
Club information
society BK Khimki
Jersey number 11
Clubs as active
2005–2006 Marbo Basket 2006–2007 Plannja Basket 2007–2009 Angelico Biella 2009–2014 Detroit Pistons 2014–2017 Boston Celtics 2017–2018 Utah Jazz 2018–2019 Golden State Warriors Since 2019 BK ChimkiSwedenSweden
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ItalyItaly
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National team 1
2005– 0000SwedenSweden Sweden 39 games
1 As of July 30, 2009

Jonas Jerebko (born March 2, 1987 in Kinna ) is a Swedish basketball player . He has been with BK Chimki in Russia since 2019 . At the time of the 2009 NBA draft , he was only the second Swedish-born player in the NBA (after Miles Simon).

career

Jerebko has been playing basketball professionally since the 2005/2006 season. He started his career in his hometown of Kinna with Marbo Basket. He spent the next season in Luleå at Plannja Basket and became Swedish champions with the team. He then moved to the Italian Lega Basket Serie A to Angelico Biella , where he played 56 games from 2007 to 2009 (49 of which as a starter). In the 2008/2009 season he scored 9 points and 5.5 rebounds on average.

NBA

Jerebko was selected 39th by the Detroit Pistons in the 2009 NBA Draft . Then he was in the summer of 2009 in the squad of the Pistons for the NBA Summer League . He took part in all five games of the Pistons and was in the starting line-up in two games. It was mainly used as a power forward and had an average operating time of 28 minutes per game. Jerebko achieved a little more than 12 points with a field throw rate of 48.5% and 6 rebounds per game. Against the Cleveland Cavaliers he achieved a personal summer league high performance with 19 points; in the game against the New York Knicks he got 12 rebounds.

At the beginning of March he was named Rookie of the Month by the Eastern Conference . He scored 9.3 points and 6.0 rebounds per game in his first NBA season, which are also his career bests to date, and was called up to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team at the end of the season . Jerebko remained an important part of the team for the Pistons for over four years.

In February 2015, he was transferred to the Boston Celtics in a player swap for Tayshaun Prince . Jerebko also regularly played 15 minutes per game at the Celtics. In the summer of 2017, Jerebko switched to Utah Jazz as a non-contracted player . In the summer of 2018, the Swede was signed by the Golden State Warriors and played 89 games for the Californians in the 2018/19 game year (5.5 points and 3.6 rebounds per game).

Russia

During the 2019 summer break, Jerebko turned his back on the NBA and accepted a contract offer from the top Russian team BK Chimki .

Personal

Jonas' father Chris Jerebko is American of Russian descent and played basketball for the college team Syracuse University and then as a professional in Sweden. Jonas Jerebko actually wanted to move to Buffalo in the United States in 2005 to be able to play at the University of Buffalo , where his father is from, but decided against college and for the Swedish basketball league Ligan .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jonas Jerebko , accessed December 25, 2013
  2. ↑ Detroit's Mr. Do-It-All. August 25, 2009, accessed June 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Marbo Basket  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.proteamonline.se
  4. ↑ a b Khimki brings in forward Jerebko. Retrieved on August 14, 2019 .
  5. ^ Draft 2009. ( Memento April 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved July 30, 2009.
  6. ↑ 2009 NBA Summer League Jonas Jerebko Statistics ( Memento from July 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved July 30, 2009.
  7. ↑ Chris Iott: Jonas Jerebko named Eastern Conference's top rookie for February . March 1, 2010, Retrieved April 14, 2010.
  8. ↑ Sources: Jonas Jerebko to sign with Jazz for 2 years, $ 8.2 million
  9. ↑ https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2018/7/14/17567480/nba-free-agency-2018-golden-state-warriors-sign-jonas-jerebko-shooting-utah-jazz
  10. ^ Keith Langlois: Swede Delight . July 29, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2009.
  11. ↑ Fran Fraschilla: NBA draft: Top 5 European prospects . May 20, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Jerebko, Jonas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 2nd 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Kinna , Sweden