Tony Dawson

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Antonio Ray "Tony" Dawson (born August 25,  1967 in Kinston (North Carolina) ) is a retired American basketball player .

career

Dawson comes from a basketball family, he is the older (half) brother of Jerry Stackhouse . At the age of seven, Dawson suffered severe leg and foot injuries when he was hit by a car. At times there was a threat of an amputation, Dawson had to undergo several operations, a slight limp remained.

He played basketball as a student at Kinston High School, then at the college level from 1985 to 1987 at Gulf Coast Community College in Florida and from 1987 to 1989 at Florida State University . The second-meter-long winger was trumped by his basket hazard, in the 1987/88 season he scored 17.9 points and in 1988/89 21 points per match. In the 1989 NBA draft , none of the teams decided to secure the rights to Dawson.

Dawson began his career as a professional basketball player in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) in his home country, for the Pensacola Tornados he scored 25.9 points per match in the 1989/90 game year, and he also got 8.3 rebounds per game. In February 1990 he moved to the Spanish first division club Tenerife, for whom he posted an average of 25.4 points in 22 missions by the end of the 1989/90 season.

In the 1990/91 season Dawson was again in the service of the Pensacola Tornados and achieved an even higher average points (30.1 / game) than in his first CBA year. Again he went to Europe in the course of the game year, this time to the Italian second division side Billy Desio, for whom he scored 23.6 points per encounter in ten games. In early March 1991 he was signed by the NBA team Sacramento Kings  and used in four games, ten days later Dawson was eliminated from the Californian squad.

After a trip to Venezuela for the Cocodrilos team in the 1991 summer season, Dawson played in 1991/92 at Betar Tel-Aviv in Israel . During the summer of 1992 he ran again for the Cocodrilos in Venezuela. In the 1992/93 season he was under contract with the Rapid City Thrillers in the CBA, where he caught the eye with an average of 31.1 points per game, then briefly reinforced Pallacanestro Ferrara (Italy) and then in January 1993 the French first division club Cholet Basket .

In the 1993/94 season he was in 34 games for the Spanish first division club Joventut Badalona on the field and came to 12.1 points / game. The 1994/95 season began Dawson with Rapid City Thriller in the CBA, it followed the league-internal move to Rockford Lightning. In the spring of 1995 Dawson was  equipped by the Boston Celtics with a contract, he played two games for the team in the NBA, in April 1995 the collaboration ended. Then he was again employed by the Cocodrilos in Venezuela.

In the 1995/96 and 1996/97 seasons he played at Bayer Leverkusen in the German basketball league . In his first season in Leverkusen, Dawson was the best basket scorer in the Bundesliga with 28.6 points per match and became German champions with the Rhinelanders. However, during his time in Leverkusen he was sometimes accused of stubbornness and weaknesses in defense. Leverkusen's coach at the time, Dirk Bauermann, attested that the American had an “unbelievable ego”. As a team player, he was difficult, but was nevertheless a “type” and a “gifted player”.

After Dawson's time in Leverkusen, he worked for the Greek club Apollon Patras (he was the best scorer in the Greek first division in 1997/98), in Italy's second division (Scavolini Pesaro, 1998/99) and again in Greece (Dafni Athens, 1999). In the 2000/2001 season Dawson played first with SAV Vacallo in Switzerland , then in Lebanon with Sporting Al Ryadi Beirut. During the game the year 2001/02 he was short at Ionikos NF Thessaloniki in Greece under contract, 2003-04 then again in Tekelspor in Turkish Istanbul .

Following his basketball career, Dawson worked as the owner of a cleaning company.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family, Academics Fuel Stackhouse. April 6, 2019, accessed May 23, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-19920929-1992-09-29-9209290154-story.html
  3. ↑ What the Hell Happened to ... Tony Dawson? Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  4. ^ Tony Dawson College Stats. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ 1989 NBA Draft. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ a b c d Tony Dawson Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (English).
  7. ^ A b Antonio Ray Dawson | ACB.COM. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (Spanish).
  8. ↑ a b LEGABASKET SERIE A LEGABASKET SERIE A. Retrieved on May 23, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b Tony Dawson Player Profile, Boston Celtics, NBA Stats, NCAA Stats, Game Logs, Bests, Awards - RealGM. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b c Tony DAWSON - Cocodrilos de Caracas - PROFILE. In: Cocodrilos de Caracas. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (Spanish).
  11. ↑ DAWSON Tony | LNB.fr. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  12. ↑ All top scorers. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Champion and cup winner. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  14. ↑ MAX VELTEN: Successful basketball club has a lot of money, just no longer a team . In: THE WORLD . August 20, 1996 ( welt.de [accessed May 23, 2020]).
  15. ↑ Thomas Lötz: The Otto and the Dirk . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 28, 1995, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 12 ( taz.de [accessed on May 23, 2020]).
  16. ↑ Dirk Bauermann: Mission Success: My vision, my plan, my path . Herbig, FA, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7766-2679-7 .
  17. ↑ a b c Tony DAWSON | Cholet Basket. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  18. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-dawson-3ba07061
personal data
SURNAME Dawson, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dawson, Anthony Ray (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Kinston, North Carolina