Jérôme Moïso

Jérôme Moïso ( born June 15, 1978 in Paris ) is a French former professional basketball player. Moiso played at the beginning of his professional career for five different clubs in the most highly endowed professional league NBA, in which he never came about the status of a supplementary player out and played no major role in his teams. After he continued his career from 2006 in European professional leagues, he played in Italy, Spain and Russia. With Real Madrid, he won the 2007 championship and a Spanish Joventut Badalona with the ULEB Cup in 2007 /08. After Moiso had later played in the Chinese Basketball Association and the Ukraine, he tried in 2013 in the Puerto Rican Baloncesto Superior Nacional a comeback. For a use in a championship game, however did not come and Moiso ended his career for good.

Career

Moiso won in 1996 at the U18 European Championship with the French youth team a silver medal when they defeated among others, the German National Selection at Dirk Nowitzki and was beaten only twice the title winners Croatia. Then allowed Moiso a year later participate with the Men's National Team at the European Championship finals in 1997, where he came to two short sessions. However, France remained without a win in the second round and finished after only a preliminary round victory in tenth place. Then left Moiso the French youth academy INSEP in his hometown and went to the United States, where for a year he was preparing at the "prep school" Milford Academy in Milford (Connecticut) on a study and a basketball career in the NCAA. In 1998 he was accepted to study at the University of California, Los Angeles and played for the traditional college team Bruins in the Pacific -10 Conference ( Pac- 10) of the NCAA. With the Bruins Moiso could achieve in his two seasons in the NCAA no titles in the Pac-10. The farthest advance of the Bruins in the national NCAA finals in this period was the arrival in the second round "Sweet Sixteen" in 2000, after they had previously clearly dominated the favored Terrapins of the University of Maryland surprisingly, then, were also significantly against the Iowa State Cyclones excrete. Moiso then finished his studies and reported comparatively early for a NCAA player after two years ' Entry Draft " of the NBA, where he was selected in the first round in eleventh position of the Boston Celtics.

In his first season as a "rookie" in the NBA 2000/ 01 Moiso was then, however, only used in about every fourth game for a few minutes and came to just under six minutes operating time per game in 24 missions. The Celtics subsequently gave Moiso after just one season in a player exchange again and he came over the Philadelphia 76ers to the Charlotte Hornets. In the NBA 2001/ 02, however Moiso came with the Hornets in Charlotte just a few uses. After moving the franchise to New Orleans but Moiso became an integral part of the rotation of the players used to hit ten-minute operating time in 51 season inserts the NBA 2002/ 03. However, it then was no contract extension and Moiso signed as " free agent " a contract with the Toronto Raptors competitors. In the European Championship finals in 2003 Moiso was back with the French national team, but a medal in the " small final " for third place against the Italian missed selection that they had already done so in the previous round. Then Moiso renounced further appearances in the national team, in order to concentrate on his club career. In the only Canadian NBA team fell in the NBA 2003/ 04, however, almost all individual statistics Moiso and he only came to 35 inserts. After another 20 missions in the NBA 2004/ 05, the Raptors broke the contract on again after for a player exchange " franchise player " Vince Carter was sent to the New Jersey Nets and was no more room for Moiso in the squad of Raptors. Moiso was now even with the New Jersey Nets in successive short-term contracts to eight other stakes. After the Nets did not extend the short-term contracts in late January, Moiso came in February 2005, yet another four inserts for the Cleveland Cavaliers before his season was finally over and with how it turned out, in retrospect, his career in the major professional basketball league. In 145 missions total in the NBA Moiso was only three times in the starting lineup.

After Moiso got a new contract more in the NBA, he was committed at the beginning of the 2006/07 season by the Italian first division club Virtus Lottomatica from the capital Rome. There, however, he had only a few bets and his contract was dissolved again after a further commitment shortly after the season starts, so that Moiso the end of December the league rivals in the Lega Basket Serie A runners- Fortitude Climamio from Bologna joined. However, the team was unable to build on the success of Vorsaisons, already retired in the first round of the ULEB Euro League from 2006/ 07 and also missed the national championship play-offs significantly. At season's end Moiso moved to Spain, where he. For the play- offs Real Madrid reinforced who could bring back the championship in Spain For the following season 2007/ 08 he went inside the ACB league to league rivals DKV Joventut Badalona, but after winning the title in the second- highest European club competition, the ULEB Cup in 2007 / 08 as well as in the Spanish Cup Copa del Rey as the main round second in the national semifinal series in the Catalan duel were eliminated by FC Barcelona. For the 2008/ 09 season Moiso signed a contract with the Russian runner- BK Khimki, but this was resolved after a short time, so that Moiso returned in December 2008 Joventut de Badalona again. After having to, among other things Rudy Fernandez, who joined the NBA, give off the team but could not build on the successes of the previous season. In the Euro League excreted early, you failed in the first play-off round to Moïsos former club Real Madrid. In the 2009/10 season he was then in the Euro Cup semi-finalists Bilbao Vizcaya under contract. In Eurocup 2009/10 they moved again in the Final Four tournament, but it lost to in the semifinals of the German representatives ALBA Berlin. In the national championship you missed in ninth place nor the re- making the play -offs.

For the season 2010/11 Moiso went to China where he played for the Dragons from Jiangsu in the Chinese Basketball Association. With this team he reached the semifinal series of the CBA in which they lost the main round First Xinjiang Flying Tigers. In the season 2011/12 Moiso then had ten inserts for BK Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk from before he left the team in March 2012. A year later he tried Baloncesto Superior Nacional in Puerto Rico on a comeback, but he remained after persistent knee problems for the Piratas of Quebradillas without use.