Nikoloz Tskitishvili
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| birthday | 14th April 1983 (age 37) | |
| place of birth | Tbilisi , Georgian SSR , Soviet Union | |
| size | 213 cm | |
| Weight | 111 kg | |
| position | Center / Power Forward | |
| NBA draft | 2002 , 5th pick, Denver Nuggets | |
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1999–2001 KD Slovan 2002 Benetton Treviso 2002–2005 Denver Nuggets 2005 Golden State Warriors 2005–2006 Minnesota Timberwolves 2006 Phoenix Suns 2007 Caja San Fernando Sevilla 2007–2008 Teramo Basket 2008–2009 Baloncesto Fuenlabrada 2009 Panionios Athens 2009–2010 Baloncesto Fuenlabrada 2010– 2011 Lagun Aro GBC 2011–2012 Mahram Tehran 2012 Foolad Mahan 2012–2013 Champville 2013–2014 Al Sharjah 2014–2015 Champville 2015 Link Tochigi Brex 2015–2016 Champville 2016 Chemidor Tehran 2016–2017 Al Manana 2017 Dinamo Tiflis 2017–2018 Byblos Club 2018 Sukhumi Beirut Club
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Nikoloz Tskitishvili ( Georgian ნიკოლოზ ცქიტიშვილი ; born April 14, 1983 in Tbilisi , Georgian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Georgian basketball player . He was considered a great talent in his youth and was selected very early in the 2002 NBA Draft , in fifth place. In the US professional league NBA , however, Tskitishvili was never able to meet the expectations placed on him and is therefore in the eyes of individual commentators as a prime example of a "draft bust", which can be freely translated as "lottery rivet" based on the lottery form of the draft.
career
Start time
In 1999, at the age of 16, Tskitishvili moved from the Sukhumi basketball club, which has been playing in Tbilisi since the separatist conflicts in Abkhazia in 1992, to KD Slovan in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana .
Two and a half years later, in January 2002, he moved to the top European club Benetton Treviso , in whose team, which is top-notch for European standards, he fought for more than ten minutes of playing time per game at the age of 18. With Treviso he became Italian champion in 2002 and was also used in the top European division ULEB Euroleague 2001/02 , in which the club was eliminated in the semifinals against national rivals Bologna children .
In the following training camps in the summer, Tskitishvili was able to attract the interest of the NBA scouts and was so convincing that the Denver Nuggets selected him in fifth place in the following entry draft .
NBA
In contrast to young American players, who usually only switch to the NBA after a four-year college career in the NCAA at the age of a good 23, the Denver Nuggets considered 19-year-old Tskitishvili to be mature enough to include him in their professional squad. But in contrast to Dirk Nowitzki , who had a similar career path, he could never prevail in the NBA.
In February 2005, the Nuggets gave Tskitishvili to the Golden State Warriors . In the following season 2005/06 he played with the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Phoenix Suns . At the end of the season, his NBA career ended after an average of 11.3 minutes and 2.9 points per game.
foreign countries
In 2006 Tskitishvili moved to the Spanish ACB league to Caja San Fernando in Seville. After a year he moved back to the Italian Serie A to the club from Teramo . At both clubs he came to a little more than 10 minutes playing time per game. In 2008 he moved back to Spain and played for Alta Gestión from Fuenlabrada, with whom he narrowly missed the place in the play-offs for the Spanish championship, which he had not achieved with his clubs in the previous seasons in Spain and Italy.
He then moved to the Greek A1 Ethniki at the end of the 2008/09 season , where he was eliminated with Panionios from Athens in the first round of the championship play-offs. After another year at Fuenlabrada, where relegation could only just be avoided in the 2009/10 season, he played in the 2010/11 season in the Basque San Sebastián at Lagun Aro GBC, which he left at the end of March 2011.
In 2010 the Georgian national team qualified for a European Championship finals for the first time. At the European Championship finals in 2011 in Lithuania they reached the intermediate round of the twelve best teams after two preliminary round victories, in which, however, they remained without a win and were eliminated. After the European Championship finals, Tskitishvili played for Mahram Tehran in the Iranian Super League, with which he won the championship in 2012.
For the following season he switched to league competitor Foolad Mahan, but broke this contract at the end of November 2012 and moved to Champville in Lebanon, where he played with Reyshawn Terry , who is known from the basketball league and who was the 2011 German champion with the Brose Baskets has been.
Web links
- Nikoloz Tskitishvili - player profile on basketball-reference.com
- Nikoloz Tskitishvili on nba.com (English)
- archive.fiba.com: Players - Nikoloz TSKITISHVILI (GEO) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/tskitni01.html
- ^ Adam Reisinger: They didn't win the lottery with these picks. ESPN , June 6, 2008, accessed October 9, 2011 .
- ↑ Legabasket: Nikoloz Tskitishvili. Legabasket.it, accessed October 9, 2011 (Italian, player profile).
- ↑ TSKITSHVILI, NICKOLOZ. ULEB Euroleague , accessed on October 9, 2011 (English, player profile).
- ↑ Nikoloz Tskitishvili NBA & ABA Statistics. Basketball-Reference.com, accessed October 9, 2011 (English, NBA statistics).
- ↑ Lagun Aro GBC press office: Lagun Aro GBC y Nikoloz Tskitishvili rescinden el contrato que les unía. ACB.com, March 29, 2011, accessed October 9, 2011 (Spanish, press release).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tskitishvili, Nikoloz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | ცქიტიშვილი, ნიკოლოზ; Zkitischwili, Nikolos (German transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi , Georgian SSR , Soviet Union |