Bernard Thompson

Bernard Thompson ( born August 30, 1962 in Phoenix, Arizona ) is a retired American professional basketball player.

Career

Thompson graduated in 1980 from California State University, Fresno, where he played for the college team Bulldogs in the former Big West Conference of the NCAA. This fell into the most successful phase of the basketball team of the University, as it is four times qualify for the final of the championship tournament, the Big East and won it three times. In the following nationwide NCAA finals would retire to a second-round participation in 1982 respectively in the first round. After the defeat in 1983 after extension in the Big West championship final one was not qualified for the finals and participated in the National Invitation Tournament, which you could win in 1983. In a legend forming NBA Draft 1984, in which four members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball future Hall of Fame have been selected, Thompson was selected early in the first round to 19th position of the Portland Trail Blazers.

In the NBA Thompson graduated 1984-1989 206 Games Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns and Houston Rockets. After engagements in Israel, Japan and Chile, he moved over the 1994/95 season in the National Basketball League to Germany for TV Germania from Trier and contributed significantly to the relegation there at. In 1996, he stood at the Mosel townspeople then again five years as a player and in the 2002/03 season as a coach under contract, during which time he twice won the German Cup (1998, 2001).

Then Thompson moved back to the U.S., where he now works after two years coach at University of Santa Cruz as an assistant coach at the Arizona Rhinos.

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