Daniel Hackett
Daniel Lorenzo Hackett ( born December 19, 1987 in Forlimpopoli, Emilia -Romagna ) is an Italian professional basketball player. With Montepaschi Siena in 2013, he won the Italian league and cup double in competition.
Career
Hackett is the former NBA player Rudy Hackett 's son. He was born in Forlimpopoli, but grew up in Pesaro. Later he attended St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower ( California). He then went to study at the University of Southern California, where he played with the high school team Trojans in the former Pacific -10 Conference of the NCAA. His former teammates were among the later NBA player OJ Mayo by 2008 and Taj Gibson, DeMar DeRozan and Nikola Vučević, with whom he won the 2009 championship tournament the Pac-10. With the Trojans, he participated at each of the nationwide NCAA finals, the furthest advance was reaching the second round "Sweet Sixteen " in 2007. After the championship win in the Conference itself Hackett reported after three years in which he could improve his personal statistics, respectively, ahead of the 2009 NBA Draft, where he was not selected. By registering for the draft to him but also to return to the NCAA was impossible, so he signed his first professional contract with the five -time champions Benetton Treviso for the 2009/10 season in his Italian homeland.
With the earlier European top team from Treviso Hackett retired as a major round of eight in the first play-off round in 2010 against the defending champion Montepaschi Siena. As Hackett as hoped could not put in Treviso in scene, he moved after a year to his original club Scavolini Pesaro, whose youth teams he had been trained. After he was with Scavolini failed in the first year as a table Tenth still short of making the play -offs, they won in 2012 just as a table sixth in the first round against Bennet Cantu. In the play-off semi-final then they lost but against Armani Milan. For the following season, 2012/13 Hackett moved to series champion Montepaschi Siena, with whom he again the Italian Championship and in conjunction with winning the cup competition won the domestic double at the end of the season. In the play-off final of the Championship Series Hackett was named " Most Valuable Player". According to financial problems, the main sponsor but fell apart the champion team. Hackett initially remained in Siena, but the team missed out on the 2013/14 season the re- entry into the round of the last 16 teams in the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2013 /14, followed by the end of Hackett left the club. He switched to EA7 Emporio Armani Milan, which had reached the only Italian team a place in the round of 16 best teams. There he played back together with his former teammate David Moss and Kristjan Kangur with which he had won in the previous season in Siena the championship.