Petteri Koponen

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Basketball player
Petteri Koponen
Petteri Koponen 25 FC Barcelona Bàsquet 20180126 (2) .jpg
Player information
Full name Petteri Johannes Koponen
birthday April 13, 1988
place of birth Helsinki, Finland
size 194 cm
position Point guard
NBA draft 2007 , 30th Pick, Philadelphia 76ers
Club information
society FC Bayern
league Basketball Bundesliga
Clubs as active
2004–2008 Espoon Honka 2008–2012 Virtus Bologna 2012–2016 BK Chimki 2016–2018 FC Barcelona Since 2018 FC Bayern MunichFinlandFinland
ItalyItaly
RussiaRussia
SpainSpain
0GermanyGermany
National team 1
Since 02006 Finland 123
1 As of November 8, 2016

Petteri Johannes Koponen (born April 13, 1988 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish basketball player. The 1.94 m tall point guard has been under contract with the German club FC Bayern Munich since 2018 .

Career

Koponen played for Espoon Honka in the Finnish Korisliiga from 2004 to 2008 . There he was already a regular in the 2006/07 season, followed by his first appearance in the senior national team of Finland in August 2006 . In 2007 Koponen, who had become Finnish champions with Honka, was selected as the first Finn in the 1st round of an NBA draft , but the Philadelphia 76ers gave the rights to him to the Portland Trail Blazers . Since the Trail Blazers didn't offer him a contract, Koponen stayed in Finland for another year to do his military service and play for Honka at the same time. Again he won the Finnish championship and was also awarded as the MVP of the season's main round, making him the second youngest recipient of this award (after Teemu Rannikko 1999).

In August 2008 Koponen moved to the Italian Serie A for Virtus Bologna . He played for Bologna for four years, during which time the draft rights to Koponen were transferred to the Dallas Mavericks in a three-way swap with the Portland Trail Blazers and the Denver Nuggets in June 2011 .

After the Finnish national team had qualified for a European Championship finals for the first time in 16 years, Koponen took part in the 2011 European Championship finals in the summer of 2011 , where the selection immediately reached the round of the twelve best teams. Two years later, the team was able to repeat this success and once again place itself among the ten best selection teams in Europe. At that time Koponen was already playing for the Russian club BK Chimki, to which he moved in 2012. At the 2014 World Cup in Spain, Koponen was eliminated with the Finnish team in the preliminary round, but was at least the best passer of the tournament with 5.8 assists per game. He won the Eurocup with BK Chimki in 2014/15 , and was also elected to the All-Eurocup First Team . In the summer of 2016, Koponen moved to FC Barcelona . Shortly afterwards he suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident , from which he recovered relatively quickly. In his two years at FC Barcelona, ​​the Finn played 69 games in the ACB league and averaged 8.6 points per game. He hit 92 three-point throws for "Barca" with a success rate of 43 percent.

In July 2018, Bundesliga club FC Bayern Munich announced the signing of Koponen. With Bayern he won the German championship in the 2018/19 season. The Finn contributed an average of 9.0 points to this success in 40 Bundesliga games.

successes

  • Finnish champion 2007, 2008
  • Winner EuroChallenge 2009 with Virtus Bologna
  • Winner ULEB Eurocup 2015 with BK Chimki
  • Winner of the Spanish Cup 2018 with FC Barcelona
  • German champion 2019 with Bayern Munich

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics during the 2006/07 season  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Average playing time: 31:40 minutes@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / 92.61.33.63  
  2. Profile at nbadraft.net (English)
  3. a b List of the top three teams in the Finnish Championship (Finnish)
  4. List of the Korisliiga MVPs (Finnish)
  5. ^ Joe Freeman: Pritchard confirms Koponen signing. The Oregonian , August 21, 2008, accessed January 3, 2014 .
  6. Associated Press : Blazers, Nuggets deal point guards on draft night. (No longer available online.) NBA , Aug 23, 2011, archived from the original on June 27, 2011 ; accessed on January 3, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nba.com
  7. BC Khimki inks Koponen to three-year deal. ULEB , May 31, 2012, accessed January 3, 2014 .
  8. fiba.com , accessed on September 17, 2014
  9. 2014-15 All-Eurocup first, second teams announced. ULEB , April 16, 2015, accessed June 14, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Traumatic brain injury in Barca star. Sport1, September 19, 2016, accessed March 5, 2017 .
  11. ^ Q&A Petteri Koponen - coming back from his car accident and more. TalkBasket, November 8, 2016, accessed March 5, 2017 .
  12. ACB.COM. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  13. Bayern Transfer Coup! Dreier specialist Koponen is coming | Basketball. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  14. Abendzeitung Germany: Question marks at the master puzzle. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  15. 42829 Petteri COPONS. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .