Kirk Penney
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| Full name | Kirk Samuel Penney | |
| birthday | November 23, 1980 | |
| place of birth | North Shore City , New Zealand | |
| size | 195 cm | |
| position | Shooting Guard | |
| college | Wisconsin Madison | |
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1998–1999 North Harbor Heat 1999–2003 Wisconsin Badgers ( NCAA ) 2003 Miami Heat 2003 CB Girona 2003–2004 CB Gran Canaria 2004–2005 Asheville Altitude → 2004 Los Angeles Clippers 2005–2006 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2006–2007 Žalgiris Kaunas 2007 Alba Berlin 2007–2010 New Zealand Breakers 2010 Sioux Falls Skyforce 2010–2011 New Zealand Breakers 2011–2012 Baloncesto Fuenlabrada 2012–2013 TED Ankara Kolejliler 2013–2014 Trabzonspor 2015 Baloncesto Sevilla 2015–2016 Illawarra Hawks 2016–2018 New Zealand Breakers       
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| Since 1999 | New Zealand | |
Kirk Samuel Penney (born November 23, 1980 in Milford , North Shore City ) is a retired New Zealand basketball player. After Sean Marks , he was the second New Zealander in the NBA , in which he could not assert himself. He belongs to the most successful generation of New Zealand basketball players who reached the semi-finals with the national team at the 2002 World Cup .
Club career
Penney began his career with North Harbor Heat in the Australasian NBL , where he was named the best rookie of the 1998/99 season. Then he was in the United States until 2003 for the team of the University of Wisconsin-Madison , the Wisconsin Badgers , with whom he reached the Final Four of the NCAA Division I in 2000 . In the 2003 NBA draft Penney was not selected, but the took him Minnesota Timberwolves signed. Without having played a game for Minnesota, he was removed from the final season squad, but got a contract with the Miami Heat a little later , for which he played two games. In November 2003 he moved to Spain to CB Girona , which in turn immediately gave him up to league competitor CB Gran Canaria . Penney stayed there until the end of the 2003/04 season. Then he took the Asheville Altitude under contract, with whom he was champion of the NBA D-League . During that season, the Los Angeles Clippers had signed him at the end of 2004 , for which he played four more NBA games.
In 2005 Penney moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv . With this club he reached the final of the Euroleague 2005/06 . Penney then worked for Žalgiris Kaunas and the Bundesliga club Alba Berlin . From 2007 he played again in the NBL after he moved to the New Zealand Breakers . Penney became the first New Zealander to be elected MVP for the NBL in 2009. In 2010 he tried again in the NBA D-League, in which he played a total of seven games for Sioux Falls Skyforce . The following NBL season, Penney won the championship with the Breakers before moving to Spain to Baloncesto Fuenlabrada . After one season he moved to the 2012/13 season for the Turkish first division returnee TED Ankara Kolejliler , where he played together with his short-term Berlin teammate Jovo Stanojević . In 2013 Penney signed a contract with league rivals Trabzonspor, played briefly in Spain afterwards, then went to Australia. In 2018 he ended his career.
National team career
Penney has been an integral part of the New Zealand national team since 1999 . He took part with her in two Olympic Games ( 2000 and 2004 ) and three world championships ( 2002 , 2006 and 2010 ). By far the most successful of the team at the 2002 World Cup when they reached the semi-finals, where Penney, the team's second best scorer (after Phillip Jones ), played a key role.
Web links
- Kirk Penney - player profile on NBA.com
- Kirk Penney - player profile on basketball-reference.com
- Kirk Penney in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile on the official website of the NBL (English)
- Euro League profile (English)
- Profile on the official website of the ACB League (Spanish)
- Kirk Penney Stats - Wisconsin Badgers - College season stats on statsheet.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ -Europe Press: El Baloncesto Sevilla ficha al tirador neozelandés Kirk Penney. Retrieved August 26, 2020 (Spanish).
- ^ Illawarra Hawks secure another former NBL MVP. In: National Basketball League | NBL. Accessed August 26, 2020 (English).
- ^ Kirk Penney Calls Time on Legendary NBL Career. In: National Basketball League | NBL. Accessed August 26, 2020 (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Penney, Kirk |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Penney, Kirk Samuel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milford , North Shore City |