Levon Kendall

Levon Kendall
Player information
Full name	Levon Maxwell Simon Kendall
birthday	4th July 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
size	209 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
college	Pittsburgh
Club information
society	CB Gran Canaria
league	League ACB
Clubs as active
2003–2007 Pittsburgh Panthers ( NCAA ) 2007–2009 Panionios Athens 2009–2010 GS Marousi 2010–2013 Blu: sens Monbus 2013–2014 ALBA Berlin Since 2014 CB Gran Canaria 0
National team 1
Since 02005	Canada	108
1 Status: 2013

Levon Maxwell Simon Kendall (born July 4, 1984 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian basketball player . After studying in the United States , the Canadian international played as a professional in Europe. The participant in the 2010 World Cup played in the basketball Bundesliga 2013/14 for the German first division club ALBA Berlin, with whom he won the Beko BBL Cup 2014 . Kendall, who is also a semi-professional musician and songwriter and has been married since December 2013, is the son of the Irish musician Simon Kendall, who was a member of Doug and the Slugs in the 1980s and was able to successfully place pop music in the Canadian charts.

Career

Kendall went to study at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, where he played for the Panthers college team in the then Big East Conference of NCAA Division I from 2003 . Despite the best record of all teams in the Big East, the defending champions lost the final game of the 2004 championship tournament against the Huskies of the University of Connecticut . In the subsequent national NCAA finals they lost in the round of 16 "Sweet Sixteen" against the Cowboys of Oklahoma State University . In the following years, they reached the championship final of the Big East twice, which was lost to the Orangemen of Syracuse University in 2006 and the Hoyas of Georgetown University in 2007, as well as always the NCAA finals, in which they were eliminated in the second round at the latest as in 2007. At the last time in the U21 age group held in Argentina in 2005 , the Canadian junior selection , which included Kendall with Aaron Doornekamp , Andy Rautins and Tristan Blackwood, three other basketball Bundesliga professionals, was able to make their only one in the quarter-finals of the highly favored US selection Inflict a tournament defeat. Their squad included the later NBA professionals Rajon Rondo , Rudy Gay , JJ Redick , Marcus Williams and Allan Ray . Kendall was the top scorer of the game with 40 points and twelve rebounds in 42 minutes in the 93:90 extension win. After the semi-final defeat against the Greek selection, Canada won the bronze medal at this tournament against the Australian juniors. Kendall, who was called to the "All-Tournament Team" of the junior finals, then made his debut in the Canadian men's selection at the 2005 American Championships , in which, however, the qualification for the 2006 World Cup finals was missed.

After Kendall had not been selected in the NBA Draft 2007 by clubs of the highest endowed professional league NBA, he finally signed his first professional contract with Panionios from Athens in the Greek A1 Ethniki . In the 2007/08 season, the team was able to confirm the previous year's position in fourth place after the main round and was eliminated in the play-off semi- finals against series champion Panathinaikos Athens . In the play-off series against GS Marousi for third place they also secured participation in the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2008/09 . After finishing fifth at the 2007 American Championships , the Canadian national team had another opportunity to qualify for the Olympic basketball tournament at the pre-Olympic qualification tournament in Athens in 2008 . Here you failed in the quarter-finals against Croatia in the end with a 62: 83 defeat. In the Euroleague 2008/09 Panionios retired after only three wins in ten games after the preliminary round and was only able to achieve sixth place after the main round in the Greek championship despite an improved season record. In the play-offs they remained without a win and were eliminated in the first round against Aris Saloniki . Kendall then moved to league competitor GS Marousi, who this time won the play-off series for third place against Aris and had reached the qualifying round for the ULEB Euroleague 2009/10 . There the team won with Kendall against the national competitor Aris Saloniki as well as the German cup winner ALBA Berlin and reached the main round, in which the team qualified for the intermediate round of the 16 best European teams. After four appearances at the beginning, Kendall was not involved in Marousi's other international games after an ankle injury. In the championship they reached the third main round place and after the semi-final defeat against Olympiacos Piraeus secured third place again in the additional play-off series.

At the 2009 American Championships , the Canadian national team qualified fourth for the 2010 World Cup in Turkey . Here, however, they remained without a win in five games and were classified in the end on the 22nd and third from last place of all participants. For the 2010/11 season, Kendall moved to the Spanish LEB Oro to Obradoiro CAB from Santiago de Compostela , who had been relegated to the first division and started under the sponsor name Blu: sens Monbus. As the main round second you could secure the remaining promotion place in the play-offs and achieve the immediate return to the top division ACB league , in which Kendall played because of his Irish descent with a European player license. As a returnee, the team was able to achieve relegation for the first time in the club's history in the 2011/12 season on the 13th main round place. In the 2012/13 season it was even enough with a positive season balance in eighth place in the table for the first play-off entry in the club's history. Here they were eliminated in the first round against the first and later champions Real Madrid . For the 2013/14 season, Kendall moved to the German cup winner ALBA Berlin, with whom he also competed in European club competitions and failed with the team in the quarter-finals of the Eurocup 2013/14 at the Spanish representative Valencia Basket Club . In the Beko BBL-Pokal 2014, the team was able to defend the title and defeat the host ratiopharm Ulm in a new edition of the previous year's final . With that, Kendall won his first official club title.

After a year, Kendall Alba left Berlin and returned to Spain. There he signed a contract with first division club CB Gran Canaria for the 2014/2015 season .

Web links

Commons : Levon Kendall  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• easyCredit BBL - Levon Kendall - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• KENDALL, LEVON - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• ACB.COM: Levon Kendall - Profile on the website of the League ACB ( Spanish )
• Canada Basketball: Levon Kendall - Short profile on the websites of the Canadian Association
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Levon Maxwell S. KENDALL (CAN) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Theo Breiding: Albas Levon Kendall brings out his own CD. Berliner Morgenpost , December 13, 2013, accessed on April 5, 2014 . 
2. ↑ archive.fiba.com: 2005 FIBA ​​U21 World Championship for Men - Box Score: USA vs CANADA. FIBA , accessed on April 5, 2014 (English, game statistics). 
3. ^ Levon Kendall Bio - Pittsburgh Panthers.com. University of Pittsburgh , 2006, accessed April 5, 2014 (English, player profile). 
4. ↑ ^{a b} ALBA BERLIN completes roster with Kendall. (No longer available online.) ULEB , August 26, 2013, archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; accessed on April 5, 2014 . 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.