Osvaldo Jeanty
Osvaldo Jeanty ( born August 1, 1983 in Miragoâne, Haiti ) is a Canadian professional basketball player who plays professionally in Europe after the end of his studies in Canada. In the 2008 /09 National Basketball League season, he was against newly promoted Giants Nördlingen in the German basketball league of the most dangerous long-distance shooters and scored the records for three-point throws and scored points in a game. When BBL All-Star Game Weekend 2009 he also won the competition in a three point shot.
Jeanty was while studying in Canada extraordinary success with the Ravens of Carleton University. Self honored with personal awards - 2007 he was Ottawa's athlete of the year - he won with his team five times in a row, the Canadian College Championships CIS. 2007 Jeanty was a member of the Canadian national basketball team at the Pan American Games in 2007 in Rio de Janeiro.
After studying Jeanty signed a contract in Nördlingen in Germany and played for the local club first in the second German league ProA. With the Giants, he immediately won the championship in this league and rose to the highest German league. Also thanks to the services provided by Jeanty, the Giants were able to hold in this class. For economic reasons, however, the Giants gave at the end of the season to return the license to the highest league.
After a trip to Morocco Jeanty returned to the beginning of the season 2009/10 for a few games in the ProA to Nördlingen back. He then signed a contract in Romania, where he played under former Bundesliga coach Bruno SOCE. Here he remained only a few months before, in January 2010, the LTi Giessen 46ers Jeanty could bring back to Germany in the BBL.
For the 2010/2011 season Jeanty remained in the Basketball Bundesliga. He signed at promoted BBC Bayreuth a one-year contract. This was extended to 2012, also Jeanty is since the 2011/2012 season, the team captain of the BBC Bayreuth. After the end of the season 2011/12 Jeanty left the club. In mid-November 2012, wrote Jeanty then a contract with the Lightning from London ( Ontario) in his Canadian home, where he will try along with former NBA pro and player of polar bears Bremerhaven Rodney Buford under coach Micheal Ray Richardson, whose championship title in the National Basketball League of Canada to defend. After a few games in the Canadian Football League with Lightning London Jeanty left his home and returned at the beginning of 2013 returned to Germany in the Beko BBL and signed a contract until the end of the season at the Central German Basketball Club ( MBC) from Weissenfels. For the 2013/2014 season Jeanty was not given a new contract and the club had to leave again.