Thalamus McGhee

Thalamus McGhee
Player information
birthday	August 28, 1975
place of birth	Houston (TX), USA
size	205 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
college	Alabama
Clubs as active
1993–1995 Trinity Valley Cardinals (NJCAA) 1995–1997 Alabama Crimson Tide ( NCAA ) 1997–1999 Basket Bayreuth 1999–2000 Apollon Limassol 2000–2001 Snaidero Udine 2001 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 2001–2002 DeVizia Avellino 2002–2003 Bipop Carire Reggio Emilia 2003–2004 Banco di Sardegna Sassari 2005 Malvín 2005 Marinos de Anzoátegui 2005 HKK Široki Eronet 00000 00000 00000 00000

Thalamus McGhee (born August 28, 1975 in Houston , Texas ) is a retired American basketball player . After studying in his home country, McGhee turned pro in Europe. After starting his career in the German basketball league , McGhee played mostly in Italy before ending his professional career at the age of 30 at HKK Široki in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005 .

Career

After high school, McGhee went to the "Junior College" Trinity Valley in the Dallas-Fort-Worth-Metroplex in 1993 , which the NBA All-Star Shawn Kemp also briefly attended. With the Cardinals college team, he twice won the Foureen Conference championship in the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association . In 1995 he continued his studies at the University of Alabama , where he was to replace the later Olympic champion and NBA all-star Antonio McDyess , who had already signed up for the NBA draft after two years, in the college team Crimson Tide . McGhee only succeeded to a limited extent. The Crimson Tide reached the Final Four tournament in the National Invitation Tournament in 1996 , where they finished fourth. After two years at the Crimson Tide, there was no place in the list of selected players for McGhee in the 1997 NBA Draft .

McGhee became a professional in 1997 and signed with Basket Bayreuth in the German basketball league . After the separation from the main sponsor Steiner Optik , with whom they had twice become champions, the team was no longer competitive economically and then also athletically in the top division and was able to compete in the 1998/99 basketball Bundesliga as bottom of the table in the qualifying round best second division clubs no longer secure relegation. After a few games for Apollon in Limassol, Cyprus in 1999, McGhee got a contract in Italy with Snaidero from Udine in the Lega Basket Serie A in the 2000/01 season . The club released him at the end of February 2001, but brought him back for the play-offs for the championship, in which they were eliminated in five games in the first round. At the beginning of the following season McGhee played in October 2001 for the French champions ASVEL from Villeurbanne, among other things, in the ULEB Euroleague 2001/02 , before he returned to Italy in November 2001 and played for DeVizia from Avellino , who were able to secure relegation , but missed the play-offs again.

In early November 2002 McGhee then got a contract with the Italian second division club Bipop Carire from Reggio nell'Emilia in LegADue , which had only narrowly missed promotion to the top division in the previous season. In the 2002/03 season, however, they were eliminated in the first play-off round for promotion and McGhee changed clubs again and went to the new league competitor from Sassari in Sardinia , who achieved promotion and return to the second division in 2003 would have. In the 2003/04 season, however, they initially missed the promotion play-offs. After McGhee in the meantime in Uruguay and Venezuela , he tried a comeback in Europe in the 2005/06 season and played for the former Bosnian champion Siroki Eronet from Siroki Brijeg in Bosnia and Herzegovina . However, this was unsuccessful and the club released McGhee at the turn of the year. Afterwards McGhee was no longer professionally active.

Web links

• Thalamus McGhee (Basket Bayreuth) - Player profile on statistics pages of the basketball leagues with statistics for the 1998/99 season
• Legabasket: Thalamus Mc Ghee - player profile on the statistics pages of Serie A (Italian)
• = Legaduebasket = Thalamus Mc Ghee - player profile on the LegADue website (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mc GHEE, THALAMUS. ULEB , accessed on April 12, 2013 (English, player profile). 
2. ↑ Another reinforcement for Siroki. (No longer available online.) Kosarka.org, January 3, 2006, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 12, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.