Daniel Clark (basketball)

Daniel Mark Clark ( born September 16, 1988 in Greenwich, Greater London ) is a British professional basketball player. Clark has been playing in Spain in 2003 and made his debut in December 2006 in the highest Spanish ACB league for CB Estudiantes in Madrid. He is a member of the British national team and was with her participants in the European Championship finals in 2011 and at the 2012 Olympics in his hometown of London.

Career

Clark left as many of his later British team-mate early in his homeland, which has little tradition in basketball and therefore little playful challenges just at youth level. With almost 15 years, he moved to the youth academy of the traditional Spanish top division CB Estudiantes of the Spanish capital Madrid. After Clark was counted at the U18 European Championship in 2006 for the English selection in Division B of the five best players in the junior tournament, he made his debut in In the season 2006/ 07 with more than 18 years for the first time in the seniors team Estudiantes in the ACB league. This season, he was still employed six more times in the first team. At the end of the season, the club missed the ninth place barely a place in the play-offs at the Spanish Championship and was the first time since 1990 no longer among the eight winners placed. In the following two seasons, Clark was only little at CB Estudiantes, but awarded to the class deeper Galician Basketball Club Leche Río Breogán from Lugo in the LEB Oro each early.

In the season 2009/10 then Clark stayed with CB Estudiantes and was also used in the majority of games at just under twelve minutes operating time per game. After Estudiantes had played in the two seasons before rather against relegation, can be reached after the seventh place in the final table of the regular season for the first time the play-offs. There they remained without a win in the first round against the eventual champions Caja Laboral. Clark had meanwhile played firmly in the squad of the British national who had been re-formed in 2006 on the occasion of the awarding of the Olympic Games 2012 in Clark's hometown of London, and had replaced the previous national teams of England, Scotland and Wales at the highest level. This team succeeded in the summer of 2010, again qualifying for the European Championship finals in 2011. In the second most important European club competition Eurocup 2010/11 reached Asefa Estudiantes the quarter-finals, while again missed the play-off places in the Spanish Championship in the 2010/11 season. With the British national team he reached the 2011 European Championship finals in Lithuania, the first two victories in the finals, but after five games you had after the first round title fights leave. For the season 2011/ 12, it ran for the first division club Estudiantes eternal even worse in the Spanish Championship. They finished the season in second to last place in the table and would be relegated from the highest class, if not the potential climber CB Gran Canaria, for economic reasons, the Erstligalizenz would have been denied. Clark, however, was able to realize the dream of Olympic Games in his hometown, in the Olympic basketball tournament, however, was reached in the first round only one win in five games and thus retired before the medal round. With his club Estudiantes Clark succeeded in the 2012/13 season in twelfth place safe in the league. He then moved on to league rivals Basket CAI Zaragoza 2002.