Justin Dentmon

Justin Dentmon
Player information
Full name	Justin Lorenzo Dentmon
birthday	5th September 1985 (age 34)
place of birth	Carbondale , Illinois , United States
size	183 cm
position	Point guard
college	Washington
Club information
society	Qingdao DoubleStar Eagles
league	Chinese Basketball Association
Clubs as active
2005–2009 Washington Huskies ( NCAA ) 2009–2010 Hapoel Afula 2010–2011 Texas Legends 2011 Toros de Aragua 2011 Cocolos de San Pedro 2011–2012 Austin Toros → 2012 San Antonio Spurs → 2012 Toronto Raptors 2012 Armani Jeans Milan 2012–2013 Austin Toros 2013 Texas Legends → 2013 Dallas Mavericks 2013 Capitanes de Arecibo ( BSN ) 2013–2014 Žalgiris Kaunas Since 2014 Qingdao DoubleStar Eagles ( ChBA ) 00000 00000 000 000 00000 00000 000 00000 0
National team
201100000	United States

Justin Lorenzo Dentmon (born September 5, 1985 in Carbondale , Illinois ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Dentmon started a professional career that led him to the NBA Development League (D-League), to individual games in the highest-endowed professional league NBA , Europe and, since 2014, to the Chinese Basketball Association . Dentmon won a bronze medal with the United States national basketball team in the 2011 Pan American Games and was named the 2012 D-League Regular Season Most Valuable Player when he won the league's championship with the Austin Toros. In addition, he became Lithuanian champion in 2014 with Žalgiris Kaunas .

Career

After school in his hometown in Illinois, Dentmon attended the "Prep School" The Winchendon School in Massachusetts on the US east coast before he got a place at the University of Washington on the west coast. Here he played from 2005 for the college team Huskies basketball in the Pacific-12 Conference (Pac-12) of the NCAA . In its first year, the Huskies reached the national NCAA finals tournament , in which they were eliminated against the top-seeded team of the same name from the University of Connecticut only in extra time in the round of 16 Sweet Sixteen . After Brandon Roy became a professional in the NBA , the Washington Huskies only reached the final tournament again in 2009, this time failing in the second round against the Boilermakers of Purdue University . In the NBA Draft 2009 Dentmon was not considered by any NBA club.

Dentmon started his professional career at Hapoel from Afula in the 2009/10 season. The first division return to the Israeli Ligat ha'Al was able to keep the league in the play-downs thanks to league top scorer Dentmon . After the club withdrew from the top division for the following season for economic reasons, Dentmon played after the NBA Summer League 2010 with the Memphis Grizzlies in the following season 2010/11 in the NBA Development League (D-League) for the Texas Legends from Frisco, Texas . The Legends reached the play-offs of the D-League 2011 at the end of the season, in which they were eliminated in the first round against the Tulsa 66ers. In the summer months of 2011 , based on the northern hemisphere , Dentmon played in Latin America in Aragua, Venezuela, and in San Pedro de Macorís in the Dominican Republic . At the Pan American Games 2011 in the second half of October 2011, in which the season has already started or is about to begin in the professional leagues of the northern hemisphere, the national basketball team of the United States was no longer made up of NCAA players for the first time in this competition, but of players of the D-League formed. With the selection, which included Blake Ahearn , Jerome Dyson , Moses Ehambe , Donald Sloan and Greg Stiemsma , Dentmon won the bronze medal at the 2011 Games after a semi-final defeat against hosts Mexico in the "small final" against the Dominican Republic .

Before the end of the lockout of the NBA 2011, Dentmon played in the pre-season for the New Orleans Hornets and with the start of the D-League season 2011/12 for the Toros from Austin (Texas) , the Texan league rivals of the Legends. Dentmon was able to increase his effectiveness per game slightly in the Toros and got two "call-ups" in the form of ten-day contracts with the San Antonio Spurs and the Toronto Raptors towards the end of the season, for which he was a total of six missions until mid-April 2012 would have. After Dentmon was named Most Valuable Player of the regular season, the Toros defeated the Los Angeles D-Fenders , who previously had the best record in the regular season, in the play-offs of the D-League in the final series . After the end of the D-League season, he was committed to the play-offs of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A from the record champions Olimpia Armani from Milan . Dentmon was only used in three games in the quarterfinals, while the team later lost the final series against serial champion Montepaschi Siena and won the runner-up. After the Summer League 2012 with the Dallas Mavericks, however, he initially returned to the Toros for the 2012/13 D-League season, but in a player swap he came to the Texas Legends in January 2013. Via the Mavericks farm team , he has now also received a call-up from the Mavs, for which he had two further short assignments in the NBA at the end of March 2013. After the Legends missed the D-League play-offs at the end of the season, Dentmon played in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional in Puerto Rico for the Capitanes from Arecibo in the summer of 2013 .

In the 2013/14 season Dentmon played for the Lithuanian champions Žalgiris from Kaunas . In the ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 , the team was able to turn the game in the last quarter on the last day of the preliminary round in Bamberg at the Brose Baskets and thus finally qualify for the second round, while the German champions were eliminated. As in the first leg, when he was named “Player of the Week” by the ULEB , Dentmon was again the best point collector and thus ushered in the beginning of the end of the “ Fleming era ”. In the Top16 intermediate round in the highest-ranking European club competition, Dentmon was again honored twice as Player of the Week, but the team still missed qualifying for the quarter-final play-offs after only two wins, for which Dentmon received the award as the most effective player of a winning team, in 14 intermediate round matches. In the Lithuanian championship it was enough to defend the title for Žalgiris. For the 2014/15 season, Dentmon moved to the Chinese Basketball Association for the DoubleStar Eagles from Qingdao .

Web links

• JustinDentmon.com - official website of Justin Dentmon ( English )
• DENTMON, JUSTIN - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB (English)
• Justin Dentmon - player profile on basketball-reference.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sixteenth Pan American Games - 2011. (No longer available online.) USA basketball , archived from the original on August 8, 2014 ; accessed on August 17, 2014 (English, tournament summary). 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.  
2. ↑ Austin's Justin Dentmon Named 2012 NBA Development League Most Valuable Player. (No longer available online.) National Basketball Association , April 21, 2012, archived from the original on April 23, 2012 ; accessed on August 17, 2014 (English, media information). 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.  
3. ↑ Austin Toros win 2012 NBA Development League championship. (No longer available online.) National Basketball Association , April 28, 2012, archived from the original on September 10, 2014 ; accessed on August 17, 2014 (English, match report). 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.  
4. ↑ Legabasket: Justin Dentmon. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed August 17, 2014 (Italian, player profile). 
5. ↑ bsnpr.com - Equipos: Capitanes de Arecibo - Estadísticas 2013. Baloncesto Superior Nacional , accessed on August 17, 2014 (Spanish, seasonal statistics). 
6. ↑ Brose Baskets miss the second round. Bayerischer Rundfunk , December 20, 2013, archived from the original on August 23, 2014 ; Retrieved August 17, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Regular season Round 5 bwin MVP: Justin Dentmon, Zalgiris Kaunas. ULEB , November 16, 2013, accessed on August 17, 2014 (English, media info). 
8. ↑ Award 2013–14. ULEB , accessed August 17, 2014 .