Marcus Eriksson (basketball player)

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Basketball player
Marcus Eriksson
Player information
birthday December 5, 1993 (26 years and 271 days)
place of birth Uppsala , Sweden
size 201 cm
position wing
NBA draft 2015 , 50th pick , Atlanta Hawks
Clubs as active
until 2010 SwedenSweden KFUM Uppsala
2010-2011 SpainSpain Bàsquet Manresa
2011-2017 SpainSpain FC Barcelona
2013-2014 → Bàsquet ManresaSpainSpain
2017-2019 SpainSpain CB Gran Canaria
since 2019 GermanyGermany Alba Berlin

Marcus Per Eriksson (born December 5, 1993 in Uppsala ) is a Swedish basketball player .

career

Eriksson played for KFUM Uppsala in his home country until 2010 , partly in the youth, partly with the men's team in the second division. He moved to Bàsquet Manresa in Spain before the 2010/11 season , where he was used in youth and four games in the ACB league.

In 2011 he accepted a contract offer from FC Barcelona , initially strengthening the youth team and the second Barca men in the Spanish third division, LEB Plata. He booked his first short appearances in Barcelona's colors in the ACB league in the 2012/13 season, during the 2013/14 season he played again on loan for Manresa before returning to Barcelona. In October 2014, the Swede tore a cruciate ligament in his left knee, had to undergo an operation and was therefore out for a long time. In June 2015 secured the draft process of the NBA , the Atlanta Hawks to 50th place the rights to the winger. He was the third Swede, after Jonas Jerebko and Jeffrey Taylor , who was ever selected in the process. He stayed in Barcelona until 2017. Eriksson achieved the best statistical values ​​of his Barca time in the ACB league in the 2016/17 game year when he averaged 6.7 points in 30 main round games and scored 42 of his 94 three-point throws.

For the 2017/18 season he moved to CB Gran Canaria within Spain , and as in Barcelona, ​​he partly competed in the EuroLeague with the team . In another European club competition, the EuroCup , he triumphed during the 2017/18 season when he scored an average of 15.4 points in 14 matches and with a hit rate for three-point throws of 54.9 percent (82 attempts, 45 hits ) shone. In the Spanish league, the Swedish winger was Gran Canaria's second-best scorer in the 2018/19 season with 12.6 points per match. His 72 three-point throws hit were the team maximum.

During the 2019 summer break, Eriksson moved from Spain to Germany, he was signed by Bundesliga club Alba Berlin . The Berlin sports director Himar Ojeda was also involved in the selection of the Swede in the NBA draft proceedings in 2015 in his previous work for the Atlanta Hawks. In the 2019/20 season he became German cup winners and German champions with Berlin. In the championship year he was the team's best scorer with 12.9 points per game.

National team

Eriksson played for Sweden's youth national teams in the U16, U18 and U20 age groups. In 2017 he made his debut in the men's national team.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ACB.COM. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Barcelona extends Eriksson. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  3. ^ Federación Española de Baloncesto - Competiciones FEB. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Barcelona: Eriksson to undergo knee surgery. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Marcus Eriksson NBA draftad. Retrieved July 23, 2019 (Swedish).
  6. ↑ ERIKSSON, MARCUS - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ ACB.COM. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost- Berlin: Alba Berlin: With Eriksson towards the Euroleague. July 20, 2019, accessed on July 23, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ https://www.rbb24.de/sport/beitrag/2020/02/berlin-basketball-alba-pokalfinale-baskets-oldenburg.html
  10. ↑ Alba Berlin is a German basketball champion. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on June 28, 2020 .
  11. ^ Alba Berlin: Statistics. Basketball Bundesliga, accessed on June 28, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Marcus Eriksson profile, U20 European Championship Men 2012. Accessed July 23, 2019 .
  13. ↑ ”There is no bara spela ihop oss då can all hand”. Retrieved July 23, 2019 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Eriksson, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eriksson, Marcus Per (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppsala