Olumide Oyedeji
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 Olumide Oyedeji (2015) |
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| birthday | 11th May 1981 (age 39) | |
| place of birth | Ibadan , Nigeria | |
| size | 210 cm | |
| position | center | |
| NBA draft | 2000 , Pick 42nd, Seattle SuperSonics | |
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1996–1997 Ebun Comets 1997–1998 Dynamo Moscow 1998–2000 DJK s.Oliver Würzburg 2000–2002 Seattle SuperSonics 2002–2003 Orlando Magic 2003 Ilisiakos Athens 2003 Brighton Bears 2003–2004 Olimpija Ljubljana 2004–2005 Beijing Ducks 2005 Cangrejeros de Santurce 2005– 2006 Seoul Samsung Thunders 2006 Cangrejeros de Santurce 2006–2007 Seoul Samsung Thunders 2007–2008 Cangrejeros de Santurce 2008 CB Granada 2008 Atlanta Hawks 2009 Vaqueros de Bayamon 2010 ASU Sports Club 2010 Juve Caserta 2010–2011 Guangdong Foshan 2011 Changwon LG Sakers 2011–2012 Qingdao DoubleStar 2013 Link Tochigi Brex 2015 London Lions              
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Olumide Oyedeji (born May 11, 1981 in Ibadan , Nigeria ) is a retired Nigerian basketball player . He is also a UK citizen. The center played for the DJK Würzburg in the basketball league and later in the North American NBA . With the Nigerian national team he was African champion.
Career
As a teenager, Oyedeji played a variety of sports, including football , tennis , volleyball and athletics , with basketball being the last to join. He played with the Ebun Comets in his home country. He wanted to move to the United States and was promised to study and play at Rutgers University in the state of New Jersey , but was not given a residence permit for the USA and was therefore unable to take the flight. In the late autumn of 1997, Oyedeji traveled to Moscow with other Nigerian basketball talents to attend a basketball camp. He signed a contract with Dynamo Moscow . He left Dynamo in the 1998/99 season and moved to DJK s.Oliver Würzburg , who had just been promoted to the German basketball league at the time. There he played alongside Dirk Nowitzki . Oyedeji managed to stay up with Würzburg in 1998/99 and caused a stir with the team during the season, among other things, with an away win at Alba Berlin , which the Nigerian dunked in overtime just under two seconds before the end of the game at 87:87 and then converted free throw. In the 1999/2000 season, Oyedeji scored 12.1 points and 14.6 rebounds per encounter in 26 Bundesliga games for Würzburg. The latter was the highest value of all Bundesliga players that season. In addition, with 23 points he was the best scorer in the all-star Bundesliga game 1999/2000.
In 2000, Oyedeji was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics NBA team in the draft process . He played 69 games for Seattle, but failed to make a breakthrough in the NBA. Even after he moved to Orlando Magic after two years , he remained there in 27 appearances supplementary player.
After a short stay with Ilisiakos in Greece , the 22-year-old came to England to join the Brighton Bears . There he played under coach Nick Nurse . Over the next few years, Oyedeji changed clubs a total of eight times, including a renewed appearance in the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks , for which he did not play an NBA game.
In 2009 the Nigerian worked for Vaqueros de Bayamon in Puerto Rico. After a year he left the club and returned to Asia, where he made his debut on December 20, 2009 in the shirt of the Liaoning Panpan Hunters. After a brief engagement in Jordan at the ASU Sports Club, he signed a contract with Juve Caserta in Italy, which was valid for the 2010/11 season, but which was dissolved a short time later. Shortly thereafter, he announced the move to the Chinese first division team Guangdong Foshan.
Oyedeji was a player in the Nigerian national team , with which he won the silver medal in 1999 and 2003, the bronze medal in 2005 and 2011 and finally the gold medal at the Africa championship in 2015 . In 2012 he took part in the Summer Olympics with Nigeria's selection.
He set up a foundation with which he supports children and young people with educational and sports activities. He also organizes basketball training camps.
Web links
- BBL player profile
- Olumide Oyedeji - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
- Olumide Oyedeji - player profile on basketball-reference.com
- Olumide Oyedeji in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile on HoopsHype.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Former NBA Player Olumide Oyedeji Joins London Lions. In: Hoopsfix.com. February 14, 2015, accessed August 31, 2020 (American English).
- ^ The Sunday Interview with Olumide Oyedeji. In: TVC News Nigeria on youtube.com. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
- ↑ JOHN GUSTAFSON: NEXT COUNTRY: NIGERIA. In: ESPN. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Stefan Mantel: The young wild ones from Würzburg . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 136-139 .
- ↑ The best of the season 99/00 . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 53 .
- ↑ Olumide Oyedeji. In: NBA. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
- ↑ By Ian Whittell: Oyedeji gives Nurse chance to remedy Bears' European ills . ISSN 0140-0460 ( thetimes.co.uk [accessed August 31, 2020]).
- ↑ Olumide Oyedeji profile, FIBA Africa Championship for Men 2005. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
- ↑ THE OLUMIDE OYEDEJI YOUTH FOUNDATION LAUNCHES THE “NO BORDERS BASKETBALL CAMP” IN NIGERIA. In: bballnaija.com. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Oyedeji, Olumide |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nigerian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ibadan |