Maodo Lô

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Basketball player
Maodo Lô
Maodo Lô (2016)
Player information
birthday December 31, 1992 (27 years and 244 days)
place of birth Berlin , Germany
size 191 cm
position Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college Columbia
NBA draft 2016 , not selected
Club information
society Alba Berlin
league Basketball Bundesliga
Jersey number 4th
Clubs as active
2009–2011 Central Hoops ( NBBL ) 2012–2016 Columbia Lions ( NCAA ) 2016–2018 Brose Bamberg 2018–2020 FC Bayern Munich Since 2020 Alba BerlinGermanyGermany
United StatesUnited States
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National team 1
Since 002014GermanyGermany Germany 56 games
1 As of September 4, 2019

Maodo Lô (born December 31, 1992 in Berlin ) is a German basketball player .

He is under contract with Alba Berlin . Although he was not a selection player of the DBB in international tournaments in the youth field , Lô was appointed to the German national team in the summer of 2014 while still studying in the United States . With his college team Columbia Lions, Lô won the CollegeInsider-Tournament (CIT) of the NCAA in 2016 and was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the final tournament.

Club career

Lô, the son of a Senegalese father and a German mother, the artist Elvira Bach , started playing basketball in the club relatively late and came to DBV Charlottenburg , the original parent club of the multiple German champions Alba Berlin . In contrast to most of the professional operating companies of the first division clubs, Alba had separated organizationally from its parent club DBV and built up its own club structure, so that DBV and Alba were competitors in the junior division and in lower-class leagues. In the junior basketball league (NBBL), the DBV joined other Berlin clubs initially as Central Hoops , in whose junior team Lô joined at the end of the 2008/09 season, but did not prevent the elimination in the first play-off round could. While team-mate Malte Ziegenhagen then switched to the reigning NBBL champion Alba and later also became a junior national player, Lô stayed with the Central Hoops and, with Martin Bogdanov , was one of the protagonists of the junior team in the following two years. eliminated off-round. But Lô, as a player of the Central Hoops, also missed a nomination for the DBB selection teams for an international tournament. Even with the men of the Central Hoops in the fifth highest division, Lô did not return to the first regional league in 2011 .

Lô achieved the International Baccalaureate in 2011 and then went to the United States, initially to the Wilbraham & Monson Academy (WMA) in Wilbraham ( Massachusetts ), a "prep school" to prepare for a university degree . At the WMA, Lô not only created the conditions for a degree, but also recommended himself through the Titans school team for a sports scholarship at Columbia University in Manhattan . From 2012 Lô played for the university team Lions in the Ivy League of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and was able to play in the Lions' starting line-up as a freshman in his first season . He achieved various individual awards within the Ivy League, but in the NCAA the elite Ivy League is one of the weaker basketball conferences and so the Lions with Lô did not qualify for the prestigious NCAA Division I Basketball Championship tournament. Instead, the Lions were in 2014 36 years after the last national Postseason -participation for the College Insider Tournament nominated (CIT), in which, after two wins of all the Ivy League rival Bulldogs of Yale University defeated and eliminated. Two years later it was enough for another participation in the CIT, in which Lô as Most Valuable Player of the tournament with the team reached the first title win of a basketball team at Columbia University.

Lô's own dream of becoming involved in the highest-endowed professional league, the NBA, did not come true a year later after he finished his studies, after he was not selected in the NBA Draft in 2016 and for the time being also not through the NBA Summer League for the Philadelphia 76ers for a contract. Instead, Lô signed a three-year contract with multiple German champions Brose Bamberg , for which he also competed in the top-ranking European club competition EuroLeague . In 2017 Lô also managed the double with Bamberg after winning the trophy in the German championship in February .

On July 13, 2018, the national player signed a two-year contract with Bayern Munich . With FC Bayern he won the German championship in 2019, Lô contributed an average of 7.1 points to this success in 41 games of the season and prepared 2.7 basket wins for his teammates. In summer 2020 he moved to Alba Berlin, his hometown .

National team

Already in the summer of 2014, Lô was, quite surprisingly , appointed to the squad of the men's senior national team by Emir Mutapčić , who had temporarily taken over the post of national coach , for which he had eight appearances in friendly matches and the basketball Supercup before returning was removed from the squad for the upcoming qualification for the 2015 European Championship finals . At the finals itself in the following year, Lô played in the group games in Berlin alongside NBA professionals Dirk Nowitzki and Dennis Schröder for the German selection, which, however, missed qualification for the knockout round .

For the 2019 FIBA basketball world championship in China (August 31 - September 15, 2019), Lô was appointed to the squad of the German men's national basketball team after 54 international matches.

family

On July 1, 2019, his older brother Lamine died in an accident.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Games by Maodo Lo. In: Mahr.SB-Vision.de. Retrieved September 4, 2019 (statistics on semi-official website).
  2. ↑ Columbia wins CIT Championship - Maodo Lo becomes MVP. In: Sportal.de. March 30, 2016. Retrieved July 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Lukas Hermsmeier: Berlin basketball player in the USA: Maodo Lo, the popular kleptomaniac. Der Tagesspiegel , March 16, 2015, accessed on July 6, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c Flo Holnburger: Martin Bogdanov and Maodo Lô - The AllStar and the Great. Yabazz.com, February 19, 2011, archived from the original on February 6, 2015 ; Retrieved January 20, 2015 .
  5. ↑ NBBL: Maodo Lo. Junior Basketball League , accessed on January 20, 2015 (statistics for the 2008/09 season).
  6. ↑ SSC Südwest Berlin basketball team: Central Hoops 2010–11. (No longer available online.) Eurobasket.com, archived from the original on January 21, 2015 ; accessed on January 20, 2015 (English, seasonal roster). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / basketball.eurobasket.com
  7. ^ Mullins helps Columbia wins CIT Tournament 73-67. USA Today , March 29, 2016, accessed July 27, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Ole Frerks: "NBA? Can't give a verdict yet". In: Spox.com . April 3, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2016 (interview).
  9. ↑ Robin Tillenburg: Maodo Lô on the go to the NBA. Sportschau , July 15, 2016, accessed on July 27, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Abendzeitung Germany: Question marks at the master puzzle. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  11. ↑ 36250 Maodo Lô. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  12. ↑ https://www.albaberlin.de/news/details/national Spieler-maodo-lo-wechselelt-aus-muenchen-nach-berlin /
  13. ↑ DBB men: World Cup squad is up
  14. ^ NN: tragic accident. Painter Elvira Bach mourns the loss of her first-born son: On: BZ website; Berlin, July 8, 2019. Retrieved August 24, 2019.

Remarks

  1. ↑ For the spelling of the family name see also the article by Flo Holnburger on Yabazz.com listed under individual references and compare the spelling of the Senegalese musicians Ismaël and Cheikh Lô
  2. ↑ University means here in the German-speaking sense an institution for obtaining an “academic degree” and not a high school in the US-American sense.
personal data
SURNAME Lô, Maodo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lo, Maodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese-German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany