Trajan Langdon

Trajan Shaka Langdon ( born May 13, 1976 in Palo Alto, California) is an American former basketball player.

  • 2.1 With the team
  • 2.2 Personal Awards

Life

Youth and College

Trajan Langdon was born in 1976 in Palo Alto, where his father, the anthropologist Stephen J. Langdon, at that time a doctoral student at Stanford University was, and grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. After graduating from high school, Langdon tried several times as a baseball player in Minor Leagues, but ultimately focused on his basketball career at Duke University. In 1999, he led the Duke Blue Devils in the final of the College Cup, which was, however, against the UConn Huskies, the team from the University of Connecticut, lost.

Professional career

Clubs

After his college days was 11 drafted to the Cleveland Cavaliers Trajan Langdon in 1999 as a whole. Thus he became the first player in the NBA history, who had made his high school graduation in Alaska. There he played a total of three years but did not progress beyond the status of a supplementary player. Thereafter, Langdon moved to Europe and played one year each for Benetton Treviso in Italy, Efes Pilsen in Turkey and Dynamo Moscow. In 2005 he moved to the city neighbors CSKA, where he remained until the end of his career. During this time he was six-time Russian champion and three-time Cup champion, two -time winner of the ULEB Euro League, winners of the VTB Promo Cup 2008 and the VTB League season 2009/2010. Among the personal successes during his CSKA time included the election of the MVP of the Final Four of the ULEB Euro Cup 2008, MVP of the third match day of VTB and the victory in the 3 -point contest during the All-Star games in the PBL of the season 2011th After the victory in the Russian Championship 2011, he declared the end of his active career.

Competitions

Trajan Langdon played with three different clubs during the period of 2002-2011 a total of eight seasons in the ULEB Euro League, which he won in 2006 and 2008 with CSKA. With Dynamo Moscow he took part in the ULEB Eurocup 2004-2005. In addition to these European competitions he played with CSKA 2008-2011 in the VTB United League.

National

Because of the NBA lockout 1998 Trajan Langdon was appointed to the cadre of the U.S. national team, with whom he won the 3rd place in Greece in the Basketball World Championship 1998.

Awards and achievements

The team

  • League and Cup winners Italy with Benetton Treviso: 2003
  • Champion and cup winner Turkey with Efes Pilsen: 2004
  • Champion Russia with CSKA ( 6x): 2006-2011
  • Cup winner Russia with CSKA (3x): 2006, 2007, 2010
  • Winners of ULEB Euro League with CSKA ( 2x): 2006, 2008
  • Winner of the VTB United League with CSKA ( 2x): 2008 ( PromoCup ), 2010

Personal awards

  • MVP of the Final Four tournament in the 2007-2008 season in the ULEB Euro League
  • MVP of the 3.Spieltags the 2010-2011 season in the VTB
Shooting Guard 1999 NBA draft BC Dynamo Moscow PBC CSKA Moscow Minor League Baseball National Basketball Association Euroleague Basketball 2008 VTB United League Promo-Cup 2009–10 VTB United League Most Valuable Player 1998 FIBA World Championship Anthony Parker Juan Carlos Navarro (basketball)
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