Ryan Thompson (basketball player)
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| Player information | ||
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| birthday | 9th June 1988 (age 32) | |
| place of birth | Mount Laurel , New Jersey , United States | |
| size | 198 cm | |
| position | Small Forward / Shooting Guard | |
| college | Rider | |
| Club information | ||
| society | ratiopharm ulm | |
| league | Basketball Bundesliga | |
| Jersey number | 7th | |
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2006–2010 Rider Broncs ( NCAA ) 2010–2011 Utah Flash 2011–2012 Centrale del Latte Brescia 2012–2013 Okapi Aalstar 2013–2014 Telenet Oostende 2014–2015 Brose Baskets 2015 KK Red Star Belgrade 2015–2016 Medical Park Trabzonspor 2016–2017 Telekom Baskets Bonn Since 2017 ratiopharm ulm     
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Ryan Thompson (born June 9, 1988 in Mount Laurel , New Jersey ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Thompson began a career as a professional player that took him to Europe after a year in the NBA Development League . After a stint in Italy , Thompson played in Belgium , where he won the national championship with Telenet Oostende in 2014. Since 2016 Thompson has been playing in the Bundesliga again .
Career
After graduating from Lenape High School in his hometown, Thompson got a place at Rider University in Lawrenceville (New Jersey) , where he and his two-year-old brother Jason Thompson joined the Broncs in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in 2006 ( MAAC) the NCAA played. In 2008 the Broncs lost the final of the MAAC championship tournament clearly against the Saints des Siena College , in which Kenny Hasbrouck, who was also later active in Germany, became MVP . Even in Thompson's season until 2010, the Broncs only participated in insignificant national postseason tournaments. Thompson scored 1,879 points in 128 games for the Broncs in four years and was at the end of his career in the team in the "all-time top ten" to find points, rebounds and assists .
After Ryan Thompson, in contrast to his older brother two years earlier, in the 2010 NBA draft by any club in the National Basketball Association has been selected (NBA), he tried on the NBA Development League 2010/11 farm team of the Utah Flash still to make the leap into the highest endowed professional league. Thompson could not play a decisive role here and the Flash lost in their last season at the old location in Orem in the first play-off round against Iowa Energy . For the following season 2011/12 Thompson went to Italy, where he played in the then second-highest division Legadue for the promoted Centrale del Latte from Brescia . This reached the seventh place of the regular season straight away to move into the play-offs for promotion to the top division, in which, however, in the first round the former first division club Givova Scafati was defeated. For the following season 2012/13 Thompson moved to Belgium, where he played in the Ethias League for Generali Okapi Aalstar from Aalst . After he was eliminated with the team in the European club competition EuroChallenge 2012/13 in the intermediate round of the 16 best teams and failed at the two German teams EWE Baskets Oldenburg and Telekom Baskets Bonn , they were eliminated in the play-off semi-final series for the national championship defending champion Telenet BC Ostend. For the following season, Thompson moved to the old and new champions from Ostend on the English Channel , with whom he failed in the qualifying round for the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 only in the decisive final match against host Lietuvos rytas Vilnius . In the Eurocup 2013/14 they were the only Belgian team to survive the preliminary round, but were then eliminated in the intermediate round of the best 32 against the two subsequent finalists UNICS Kazan and Valencia Basket Club . In the national championship Ostend was able to defend his title in the final series over five games against Thompson's former team Okapi Aalstar.
For the 2014/15 basketball Bundesliga , Thompson was signed by the German first division club Brose Baskets from Bamberg . After a coach change, the club swapped almost the entire team. Despite winning the championship with Bamberg, Thompson left Germany again and played first in Serbia and later in Turkey.
For the 2015/2016 season, Thompson returned to Germany and joined the Telekom Baskets Bonn . After a good season in Bonn and the end of the playoff quarter-final series against Brose Bamberg , Thompson moved within the league to ratiopharm ulm , with whom he signed a two-year contract.
successes
- 2014 Belgian cup winner with Telenet Oostende
- 2014 Belgian champion with Telenet Oostende
- 2015 German champion with Brose Baskets
- BBL Allstar: 2015, 2017
Web links
- THOMPSON, RYAN - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
- Ryan Thompson (basketball player) - player profile on basketball-reference.com
- # 5 Ryan Thompson - Rider University Broncs - Profile on the Rider University sports websites
Individual evidence
- ^ Rider Men's Basketball History: All-Time Leaders. Rider University , June 28, 2013, accessed on August 7, 2014 (click on the respective category).
- ↑ Thompson officially at Brose Baskets. (No longer available online.) Brose Baskets , July 8, 2014, archived from the original on July 12, 2014 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 (media info). 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.
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| SURNAME | Thompson, Ryan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mount Laurel , New Jersey, USA |