Marcos Knight

Marcos Knight
Player information
birthday	September 24, 1989
place of birth	Dublin , USA
size	188 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	construction
college	Middle Tennessee State University
Club information
society	AS Monaco
league	Ligue Nationale de Basket
Clubs as active
2009–2010 Middle Georgia College 2010–2011 Chipola College 2011–2013 Middle Tennessee State University 2013–2015 FC Baunach 2015–2016 USC Heidelberg 2016–2017 Science City Jena 2017 Basket Saragossa 2002 2017–2019 Afyonkarahisar Belediyespor 2019–2020 MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg since 2020 AS Monaco 0000 0

Marcos Shyderrick Knight (born September 24, 1989 ) is an American basketball player. He is under contract with AS Monaco .

career

Knight comes from the US state of Georgia , he played for three different university teams between 2009 and 2013: First one season each at Middle Georgia College and at Chipola College (both for the National Junior College Athletic Association, the association of the two-year “Community and Junior Colleges ", Due), from 2011 for the team at Middle Tennessee State University ( NCAA ).

After the end of his college career in the spring of 2013, Knight played for the NBA clubs Charlotte Bobcats and Brooklyn Nets , but he did not make the leap into the North American professional league. In December 2013 he was signed by FC Baunach from the German 2nd Bundesliga ProB  and, as the best scorer in his team (17.7 points per game), he was involved in the team moving into the ProB final and thus making it to the ProA . He extended his contract in Baunach and also shone in the second division as Baunach's best offensive player (15.3 points per game).

In the 2015/16 season, Knight first played at USC Heidelberg (ProA), in January 2016 they split up after he had expressed his wish to move to league competitor Science City Jena . The USC had initially refused, Knight then stayed away from training. The Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung wrote about it: “The US-American simply stopped his service for the second division basketball team because he was not allowed to switch to a league competitor. In the defeat against Rasta Vechta on Wednesday, the Heidelberg combo guard was missing - surprisingly for the observers - in the squad. Knight had stayed unexcused from training the days before. Obviously that was his chosen means of forcing a transfer to league rivals Jena. ”Ultimately, a termination agreement was agreed and shortly afterwards Knight signed in Jena. He won the championship title in the 2. Bundesliga ProA with the Thuringians and rose to the basketball Bundesliga . With an average of 15.0 points, Knight was Jena's best scorer in the promotion season. In his first BBL season he was nominated for the All-Star Game 2017. During the 2016/2017 season he moved to the Spanish first division club Basket Saragossa 2002 , for which he played six games in the ACB league .

In July 2017, Knight was signed by the Turkish second division club Afyonkarahisar Belediyespor, with whom he competed in the country's first division from the 2018/19 season. In eleven appearances in the Turkish league until the end of December 2018, Knight averaged 15.9 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.1 basket assists per match. In January 2019 he was signed by the Bundesliga club MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg . He led the team in the 2018/19 season with 18.8 points per game as the best scorer. In the 2019/20 season, Knight was named the best player in the final Bundesliga tournament, where he reached the final of the German championship with Ludwigsburg, but missed the two championship games due to injury. Without him, Ludwigsburg lost both games against Berlin. Knight came to a total of 16.5 points and 5.9 rebounds per encounter during the game year.

His performances shown in Ludwigsburg earned Knight a contract in the French first division, he moved to AS Monaco during the summer break of 2020 .

Web links

• Profile on basketball-bundesliga.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marcos Knight - 2012-13. Retrieved March 4, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Pre-draft Workout: Day 2 - Cody Zeller | THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE CHARLOTTE BOBCATS. Retrieved March 4, 2017 (English). 
3. ^ Nets hosting draft combine (Prospect List) . In: The Brooklyn Game . May 21, 2013 ( thebrooklyngame.com [accessed March 4, 2017]).
4. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | US trio leaves Baunach. Retrieved on March 4, 2017 (German). 
5. ^ Knight to Heidelberg . In: inFranken.de . ( infranken.de [accessed on March 4, 2017]).
6. ↑ Academics Guard Marcos Knight wants to force Jena to change with a strike . ( rnz.de [accessed on March 4, 2017]).
7. ↑ Academics Guard Marcos Knight is now allowed to move to Jena . ( rnz.de [accessed on March 4, 2017]).
8. ↑ Promotion made perfect: Science City Jena is champion of the 2nd basketball league . ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed on March 4, 2017]).
9. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Squad. Retrieved on March 4, 2017 (German). 
10. ↑ Marcos Knight changes to Zaragoza in the Spanish ACB. Retrieved April 8, 2017 (German). 
11. ↑ http://www.acb.com/stsacumjug.php?cod_jugador=532
12. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/AfyonbelediyeSK/photos/a.1721720234776331.1073741828.1721534078128280/1968771023404583/?type=3
13. ↑ Marcos Knight Basketball Player Profile, Afyon Belediyespor, Middle Tenn.St., News, BSL stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - eurobasket . In: www.eurobasket.com . ( eurobasket.com [accessed November 7, 2018]).
14. ↑ Marcos Knight - Türkiye Basketbol Süper Ligi Oyuncusu. Retrieved January 11, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Marcos Knight is the fourth and final new signing. In: mhp-riesen-ludwigsburg.de. Retrieved January 11, 2019 . 
16. ↑ MHP RIESEN Ludwigsburg, Statistics 2018/19. Retrieved May 13, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Berlin celebrates its first championship in twelve years. Ludwigsburg provides the tournament MVP with Marcos. Retrieved June 28, 2020 . 
18. ↑ 30466 Marcos KNIGHT. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved June 28, 2020 . 
19. ^ Marcos Knight signe sur le Rocher. In: AS Monaco. Retrieved July 24, 2020 (French).