Willie Deane
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| Player information | ||
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| Full name | Willie Deane | |
| birthday | February 23, 1980 | |
| place of birth | Schenectady , USA | |
| size | 188 cm | |
| position | Point guard | |
| college | 1998-1999 Boston College 2000-2003 Purdue University |
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| NBA draft | 2003, not selected | |
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| society | BK Ventspils | |
| league | Latvijas Basketbola Līga | |
| Jersey number | 3 | |
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2003–2004 Ilisiakos Athens 2004–2005 Türk Telekomspor 2005 Virtus Bologna 2005–2007 Spartak Primorje 2007–2010 Akademik Sofia → 2008 Žalgiris Kaunas → 2009 Turów Zgorzelec 2010–2011 SLUC Nancy Basket 2011–2012 BK Odessa 2012 CB Estudiantes 2012–2013 Chimik Juschne 2013–2014 Krasny Oktjabr Volgograd 2014 EA7 Armani Milan 2014–2015 Pallacanestro Varese 2015 Krasny Oktyabr Volgograd 2015–2016 STB Le Havre Since 2016 BK Ventspils          
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Willie Deane (born February 23, 1980 in Schenectady , New York State ) is an American basketball player . He currently plays in the position of point guard at Olimpia Milano in Italy .
Career
college
Deane played for two different colleges during his college years from 1998 to 2003. He was selected in 2003 for the Boilermakers of Purdue University in the first team of the five best players of the Big Ten Conference in the NCAA .
professional
After Deane was not selected in the 2003 NBA draft, he moved to Europe and played the first few years at various clubs in Greece, Turkey and Russia. His success began with the move to Akademik Sofia in Bulgaria in 2007. He was Bulgarian champion three times in a row and cup winner in 2009. In May 2010 he took on the Bulgarian citizenship alongside the American one.
For the 2010/11 season he moved to France to SLUC Nancy Basket and won the French championship with SLUC 2011. He then moved to the Ukraine and played first in Odessa and then, after an interim engagement at CB Estudiantes in Spain, for Chimik Yuschne . With Chimik he reached the quarterfinals of the EuroChallenge in 2013 . During the 2013/14 season Deane signed a contract with Krasny Oktyabr Volgograd in the VTB-UL . Here he was voted MVP of the month in March 2014. Another club change followed in May of the same year, with Olimpia Milano Deane won the Italian championship, where he himself came only for a short period. In the following season, Deane initially continued to play in Italy for the traditional club and former European Cup winner from Varese before returning to Krasny Oktyabr in Volgograd in February 2015 .
After the end of the season Deane left Volgograd again and for the 2015/16 season he played again in the French LNB Pro A for Saint-Thomas Basket from Le Havre . With this team, however, he had no particular success and so he separated from the bottom of the table in March 2016. At the end of the season he played for the Latvian runner-up from Ventspils , who, however, already failed in the play-off semi-final series against defending champions VEF Riga .
Achievements and Awards
- Italian champion 2014
- French champion 2011
- Bulgarian champion 2008, 2009, 2010
- Bulgarian Cup Winner 2008
- MVP of the month March 2014 in the VTB-UL
Web links
- DEANE, WILLIE - Profile on the website of the Euroleague ( English )
- Profile on Proteam (player agency )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Big Ten Announces All-Conference Teams. Ohio State University , March 11, 2003, accessed April 22, 2014 .
- ^ Two-time Bulgarian champion Willie Deane granted Bulgarian passport. talkbasket.net, May 17, 2010, archived from the original on June 2, 2014 ; accessed on April 22, 2014 (English).
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| SURNAME | Deane, Willie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian-American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schenectady , New York (State) |