Marcus Faison

Marcus Faison ( born February 18, 1978 in Fayetteville, North Carolina) is a native American professional basketball player who has Belgian citizenship. Faison has played after his studies in his native country until 2006 as a professional in his adopted home of Belgium, before he took for clubs in various European countries. For the national team of his adopted home of Belgian he took part in the European Championship finals in 2011.

During his studies from 1996 to 2000 at Siena College in Loudonville near Albany in upstate New York Faison played for the high school team Saints in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference of NCAA Division I. For the Saints, he was team internally to his freshman season each the leading scorer and one of the ten best points collectors of all time his high school team; after winning the Conference Championship in 1999 you could qualify for the national finals, where they lost to the University of Arkansas Razorbacks.

After graduating, he joined in 2000 as a professional to Europe, where he played in Pepinster near Liege for the local Belgian first division. During the summer 2002, he was then for the newly established franchise Adirondack Wildcats of the summer league USBL active again in his home country. He then returned to the following season 2002/ 03 back to Belgium and played for the former Belgian Cup winner Spirou from Charleroi, with whom he immediately won 2003, the double of the league and cup, where on earth they would Faisons former club from Pepinster defeated in the championship final. In the 2003 /04 season succeeded in defending the Belgian Cup, while only vice in two national competitions was in season 2004/ 05. The following season, 2005/ 06 Spirou had little success, partly because Faison had suffered a cruciate ligament injury.

For the BBL season 2006/ 07 Faison was then obliged by the German master Rheinenergie from Cologne and started with the club in the ULEB Euro League 2006/07. While the Cologne excreting knocked off in the first group stage of Europe's highest league, Faison was established in December 2006 by the competitors Unicaja Málaga committed from the Spanish, when the player Marcus Brown injured. With the Spanish champions from 2006 then succeeded by a victory in the quarter-final series on the national competitors Winterthur FC Barcelona of entry into the Final Four tournament of the Euro League, where they lost defending champion CSKA Moscow in the semis. Was a victory over TAU Ceramica in the match for third place you best Spanish team in this competition, while one was clearly inferior in the national championship as the defending champion after a moderate main round season in the first play-off round exactly this team.

For the 2007 /08 season Faison was then obliged by the Ukrainian BC Kiev, which he vice in each national league and cup competition in 2008. The following season he played for Beşiktaş Cola Turka of Istanbul in the Turkish Basketball League. However, he completed only seven games by the end of November for the Turks, and in January 2009 moved back to the Spanish ACB league where he though the relegation of his club ViveMenorca from the Spanish top league after the end of the season could not prevent. For the 2009/10 season he was the Athens suburb of Peristeri club committed in the Greek A1 Ethniki, but he also left early in March 2010. For the rest of this season, he played again in Ukraine, this time for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk from. For the season 2010/11 he returned to his adopted home of Belgium and played for the first time in the Flemish part of the country for Telenet from Ostend. With this club he reached the Belgian Cup final and semi-final for the championship. At the international level they reached the Final Four tournament in the Euro Challenge Competition, where they lost to the eventual champions KK Krka from Novo Mesto front of his home crowd and could only reach the third place after beating BK Spartak Saint Petersburg. In June 2011, club and player announced that it would not renew the contract.

As a member of the Belgian national team succeeded Faison and his teammates to qualify for the first time with Belgium since the 1993 European Championships again for a continental finals. Before the start of the tournament European Championship finals in 2011 in Lithuania, however, violated their most important player Axel Hervelle and the final round is different then without a win in the first group stage. In November 2011, the Royal Faison Basket Club joined from Pepinster, where he had begun his career Europe and is currently coached by the well-known also from the German Bundesliga coach Aaron McCarthy. Early February 2012, Faison left the severed in the Belgian Championship bottom club and joined the Ukrainian first division from Krivoy Rog from the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where he was already active at the end of 2010 season at regional rivals Dnipro. In summer 2012, he moved to the Philippines about the club Petro Blaze Boosters in the Philippine Basketball Association. For the start of the season in Europe, he moved in early October 2012 as the reigning champion BK Armia Georgian from Tiflis, who started in the Euro Challenge. This, however, he left the year and after a stint in the Iranian Basketball Super League he played from the end of February 2013 the Finnish Korisliiga for the basketball team from Kotka.