Ken Johnson (basketball player)

Ken Johnson
Player information
Full name	Kenyata Allen Johnson
birthday	1st February 1978 (age 42)
place of birth	Detroit , Michigan , United States
size	210 cm
position	center
college	Ohio State
NBA draft	2001 , 48th pick, Miami Heat
Clubs as active
1997–2001 Ohio State Buckeyes ( NCAA ) 2001 Felice Scandone Avellino 2001–2002 Dakota Wizards ( CBA ) 2002–2003 Miami Heat 2003–2004 Huntsville Flight 2004–2005 JL Bourg-en-Bresse 2005–2006 Albuquerque Thunderbirds 2006 Busan KTF Magic Wings ( KBL ) 2006–2007 Yunnan Bulls ( CBA ) 2007 Autocid Ford Burgos 2007 Benetton Friborg 2008 Skyliners Frankfurt 2008–2009 Telekom Baskets Bonn 2009–2010 BC Kalev 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000

Kenyata Allen "Ken" Johnson (born February 1, 1978 in Detroit , Michigan ) is a retired American basketball player . One of the great strengths of the center player who was one shot block .

Career

The 2.10 m tall and 110 kg center played from 1997 to 2001 for the Buckeyes of Ohio State University in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). With 444 blocks in his four-year college career, he is one of the ten best shot blockers of all time in Division I. Three times you could qualify for the national finals . However, these results were later deleted due to violations of the NCAA regulations. In the 2001 NBA Draft , Johnson was selected as the 49th player by the Miami Heat .

After Johnson was not taken into the season squad at the Miami Heat 2001, he began his professional career first in Italy , where he played in the Lega Basket Serie A for Felice Scandone from Avellino , Campania . Shortly after the start of the season, the contract was canceled again in mid-November 2001 and Johnson returned to his US homeland, where he played for the Dakota Wizards in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). This won with Johnson at the end of the season the championship in the re-established CBA.

Finally, Johnson moved into the squad of the Miami Heat in the 2002/03 season and completed 16 appearances in the NBA . After he could not prevail in the NBA, he played in the 2003/04 season in the NBA Development League (D-League) at the Huntsville Flight, among others, together with Ronald Dupree . At the end of the season Johnson, who was the best shot blocker in the D-League in 2004, reached the final game for the championship with the Flight , which was lost to the Asheville Altitude in extra time.

In the 2004/05 season, Johnson played in the French top division LNB Pro A for Jeunesse laïque from Bourg-en-Bresse , which at the end of the season reached the play-offs for the French championship for the first time in the club's history , where they in Eliminated in the qualifying round against defending champion EB Pau-Orthez . Then he was again active in the D-League for the Albuquerque Thunderbirds, the new name of the Huntsville Flight after moving to Albuquerque , which this time also won the championship finals at the end of the season. Johnson had already left the team at this point and moved to the Korean Basketball League to the KTF Magic Wings in Busan , South Korea . Then he strengthened the Yunnan Bulls from Kunming in the Chinese Basketball Association in China , before he returned to Europe in March 2007 and helped Autocid Ford from Burgos to stay in the league in the Spanish second league LEB Oro .

For the 2007/08 season he was initially under contract with the Swiss champions Benetton Friborg Olympic from Freiburg im Üechtland in the national basketball league , with which he also played in the 2007/08 ULEB Cup . At the turn of the year, however, he moved to the German basketball league to the Deutsche Bank Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main , with whom he narrowly eliminated at the end of the basketball league 2007/08 in the semi-final series of the championship play-offs against Telekom Baskets from Bonn . After he was initially supposed to switch to league competitor Cologne 99ers , which, however, withdrew from an obligation after three weeks, their Rhenish competitor from Bonn took him under contract as a replacement for the injured John Bowler . The fixed-term contract was then until the end of the season and the Telekom Baskets Bonn reached the final series of the championship again at the end of the basketball Bundesliga 2008/09 , in which they were defeated this time by the EWE Baskets Oldenburg in the final seconds of the decisive final game.

For the following season 2009/10 the Telekom Baskets signed Chris Ensminger and waived a further commitment from Johnson, who then joined the Estonian champions BC Kalev / Cramo from Tallinn . However, this team played little successfully and Johnson was released from his contract in February 2010. Afterwards Johnson was no longer professionally active.

successes

• 2009 German Vice Cup winner with the Telekom Baskets Bonn
• 2008/2009 best shot blocker in the league with an average of 2.2 blocks and runner-up in the choice of best defensive player
• 2008/2009 German runner-up with the Telekom Baskets Bonn
• 2003/2004 D-League runner-up with Huntsville Flight
• 2001/2002 CBA Champion with the Dakota Wizards

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Ken Johnson - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Ken Johnson (basketball player) - player profile on NBA.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Legabasket: Ken Johnson. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed on April 3, 2013 (Italian, player profile on statistics pages). 
2. ↑ CBA 2001-2002 basketball. (No longer available online.) Eurobasket.com, archived from the original on July 23, 2011 ; accessed on April 3, 2013 (English, season overview). 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. ^ Ken Johnson D-League Stats. Basketball-Reference.com, accessed April 3, 2013 (English, statistics). 
4. ^ Altitude Take Title to the Bank. (No longer available online.) NBA Development League , April 24, 2004, archived from the original on May 14, 2016 ; accessed on April 3, 2013 . 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.  
5. ↑ Ken Johnson - Bourg - Joueurs - Pro A. Ligue Nationale de Basket , 2005, accessed on April 3, 2013 (French, player profile with statistics). 
6. ↑ JOHNSON, KENYATTA ALLEN. FEB.es , accessed on April 3, 2013 (Spanish, player profile with statistics). 
7. ↑ JOHNSON, KEN. ULEB , accessed on April 3, 2013 (English, player profile). 
8. ↑ Cologne 99ers sign Ken Johnson. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , July 31, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on April 3, 2013 (Medien-Info Köln 99ers).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
9. ↑ Ken Johnson comes to Bonn. In: www.schoenen-dunk.de. Telekom Baskets Bonn , September 10, 2008, accessed on February 12, 2015 (Medien-Info).