Kannard Johnson
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| birthday | June 24, 1965 (55 years and 68 days) | |
| place of birth | Cincinnati , Ohio , USA | |
| size | 206 cm | |
| position | Power Forward / Center | |
| college | Western Kentucky | |
| NBA draft | 1987 , 41. Pick, Cleveland Cavaliers | |
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1983–1987 WKU Hilltoppers ( NCAA ) 1987 Cleveland Cavaliers 1988 Miami Tropics ( USBL ) 1988–1989 Cantini Riunite RE 1989–1993 TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1993 AEK Athens 1993 LaCrosse Catbirds ( CBA ) 1993–1994 Sioux Falls Skyforce (CBA) 1994 Yakima Sun Kings (CBA) 1994 Rockford Lightning (CBA) 1994 Jacksonville Hooters (USBL) 1994-1995 Montecatini SC 1995 Atlanta Trojans (USBL) 1995-1996    Connecticut Pride (CBA)
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Kannard Johnson (born June 24, 1965 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is a retired American basketball player . After Johnson was unable to assert himself in the NBA, the highest endowed professional league , he went to Europe, where he celebrated his greatest successes in Germany at Bayer Leverkusen. With the Farbenstadt team, he won seven of the eight possible national titles in four years.
Career
After graduating from high school, Johnson moved to Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green in the state of Kentucky to the south of Cincinnati . There he played together with Tellis Frank for the Hilltoppers called basketball team in the Sun Belt Conference of the NCAA Division I. Twice you could qualify in 1986 and 1987 for the national final of the NCAA and reach the second round there. In 1986 they lost to their regional rivals, the then top seeded Wildcats of the University of Kentucky , and a year later to the eventual runner-up, the Orangemen of Syracuse University . Johnson is still one of the best scorers in Hilltoppers history, scoring 1,738 points in his college career.
After Johnson was selected in the NBA Draft of 1987 in the second round of Cleveland Cavaliers , he completed four appearances for this team in the NBA before the club released him from his contract at the end of 1987. After he had played in the summer league United States Basketball League (USBL) for last year's champions Miami Tropics, he went to the top Italian division A1 to the promoted Cantini Riunite from Reggio nell'Emilia . After one season he moved to Germany for runner-up TSV Bayer 04 from Leverkusen in the basketball league , where he played with his compatriot Clinton Wheeler . Under the new coach Dirk Bauermann , the club had also assembled a group of German national players with whom the team could hardly be beaten nationally in the following four seasons. With the exception of the cup victory in 1992, they won all national titles and until 1993 were four times German champion , including three times as a double . The quarter-finals of the European Champions Cup were played in a group stage in 1991, where they finished sixth and missed the Final Four tournament by a comparatively narrow margin. A year later, the competition was held as a European league with two groups in the round of 16, with several teams from one country taking part for the first time. After seven wins in 14 games in 1992 were not enough to make it to the quarter-finals, they failed in 1993 after eight wins because of the poorer direct comparison on the quarter-finals of the most important European club competition. The club then swapped its American duo Wheeler and Johnson and replaced it with Tom Garrick and Abdul Shamsid-Deen .
Johnson started the 1993/94 season with the Greek club Athlitiki Enosi Konstantinoupoleos (AEK) from Athens in the A1 Ethniki . There he only acted a few weeks before he returned to his home country and worked for various clubs in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). During the summer break he was reunited with his former Leverkusen teammate Clinton Wheeler in the USBL for the Jacksonville Hooters . Together they won the league championship in 1994. Johnson then played another season in Serie A1, where he only came on seven missions for the club from Montecatini Terme . The club rose after only four wins in 32 games from bottom of the table. In the USBL 1995 Johnson played for last year's final opponent Trojans from Atlanta , who reached the final again and this time were inferior to the Florida Sharks. In the 1995/96 season Johnson was once again active in the CBA for the Connecticut Pride, which had emerged from the Albany Patroons.
Web links
- Kannard Johnson - player profile on basketball-reference.com
- Legabasket: Kannard Johnson - player profile on the statistics pages of Serie A (Italian)
- Kannard Johnson (AEK BC Athens) - Player History - Profile in the Korać-Cup 1994 at FIBA Europe (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hilltoppers WKU Men's Basketball 2012-13 Media Guide. (PDF (9.6 MB)) (No longer available online.) Western Kentucky University , October 8, 2012, p. 75 , archived from the original on March 12, 2013 ; Retrieved on February 24, 2013 (English, "1,000-Point Scorers": Individual career statistics). 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.
- ↑ Champions Cup 1990/91. Linguasport.com, accessed February 24, 2013 (English, /, Spanish).
- ↑ European Championship for Men's Clubs 1993. FIBA Europe , accessed on February 24, 2013 (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Johnson, Kannard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cincinnati , Ohio, USA |