Max DiLeo

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Max DiLeo
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Max DiLeo (2017)
Player information
Full name Maximilian Lewis DiLeo
birthday March 12, 1993
place of birth Philadelphia (PA), USA
size 185 cm
position Shooting Guard
college Monmouth
Club information
society Hamburg Towers
league Basketball Bundesliga
Clubs as active
2011–2015 Monmouth Hawks ( NCAA ) 2015–2017 Oettinger Rockets 2017–2018 RheinStars Cologne 2018–2020 SC Rasta Vechta Since 2020 Hamburg TowersUnited StatesUnited States
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Maximilian Lewis DiLeo (born March 12, 1993 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American - German basketball player . After studying in his native country, DiLeo began a professional career in Germany in 2015 with the second division club Oettinger Rockets Gotha in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA . Two years earlier, his older brother TJ DiLeo had also started his professional career in the second highest German division.

Career

Max DiLeo is the son of Tony DiLeo , formerly very successful as a basketball coach in Germany and former manager and brief coach of the NBA club Philadelphia 76ers , and Anna , a native of Romania , formerly very successful basketball player at DJK Agon 08 Düsseldorf . At the beginning of the 1990s, DiLeo's family settled in his father's homeland, where he initially worked as a scout for the Philadelphia 76ers, in South Jersey , the south of New Jersey . After attending the "high school" in Cinnaminson, Max began in 2011, in contrast to his older brother TJ, who had been given a place in Max's native Philadelphia at Temple University , to study at Monmouth University in the county of the same name , which was already New York Metropolitan Area is counted. While TJ was allowed to play with the Temple Owls , part of the Philadelphia Big Five, one of the traditional teams of the NCAA Division I, and soon also received invitations to the DBB selection teams , Max had to be a player without a sports scholarship following the recommendation of Larry Brown fight for a squad place with the Monmouth Hawks first. The team from Monmouth University initially played in the NCAA's Northeast Conference . After two years, the Hawks moved to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) in 2013 , in which the team did not qualify for a further round of the NCAA.

After finishing his studies in 2015, DiLeo got a professional contract with the Oettinger Rockets from Gotha in the second highest German league ProA , in which his older brother had already started his professional career two years earlier. However, he had achieved the championship and promotion to the top division with the Giessen 46ers in the ProA 2014/15 . In the spring of 2017, Max DiLeo (almost) drew level with his brother by becoming ProA runner-up with Gotha, with which the club made the leap into the Bundesliga.

DiLeo did not go with the Thuringians in the Bundesliga, but stayed in the ProA by switching to the RheinStars Cologne for the 2017/18 season. In 32 ProA games he posted an average of 5.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.1 basket assists in his Cologne shirt. The Cologne team withdrew from the ProA after the end of the 2017/18 season, DiLeo switched to the Bundesliga promoted SC Rasta Vechta . With Lower Saxony, he caused a stir in 2018/19 as a new league player when they advanced to the semifinals. DiLeo was in the starting line-up in 35 of his 39 season appearances and scored an average of 5.2 points per game.

In the summer of 2020, DiLeo, like coach Pedro Calles, moved from Vechta to Bundesliga competitor Hamburg Towers .

Web links

Commons : Maximilian Di Leo  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Stephen Edelson: An unlikely leader emerges at Monmouth in Max DiLeo. Asbury Park Press: APP.com, November 8, 2014, accessed May 27, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Rockets sign Max DiLeo. 2. Basketball Bundesliga , May 21, 2015, accessed on May 27, 2015 (Medien-Info Oettinger Rockets).
  3. ↑ Incredible catch-up: Gotha Rockets are promoted to the Bundesliga . ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed on May 9, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Leader with a big name: Max DiLeo is coming - RheinStars Cologne . In: RheinStars Cologne . June 12, 2017 ( rheinstars-koeln.de [accessed June 18, 2018]).
  5. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Squad. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ THROUGH BLOOD BASKETBALLER: MAX DI LEO COMES TO RASTA . ( rasta-vechta.de [accessed on June 18, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Eckhard Klein, Henrik Bahlmann: Basketball surprise Rasta Vechta: How a village club stirs up the league . In: Spiegel Online . June 8, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 9, 2019]).
  8. ↑ easyCredit - 541 VEC. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ https://www.hamburg.de/nachrichten-hamburg/14150426/hamburg-towers-verpflichten-vechtas-dileo/
personal data
SURNAME DiLeo, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DiLeo, Maximilian Lewis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania