David Bell (basketball)

David Bell ( born June 20, 1981 in Oakland, California) is an American professional basketball player who played in the BBL season 2010/11 for Phoenix Hagen in the German Basketball Bundesliga. Bell played in previous years in Europe, including one and a half years between 2004 and the end of 2005 in Switzerland.

Career

While studying at the University of Montana in Missoula Bell was called for the Grizzlies College team for the university in the NCAA Division I active. Two seasons, he was one of the five best players in the Big Sky Conference, he led the Grizzlies as a scorer and holds the internal team record for the most successful three-point throws in a season. Then he left the university and returned to his hometown. A year later he began to play basketball professionally and signed a contract in Lausanne, Switzerland. With 20 points in the section and a marksmanship of 44 percent from behind the three point line, he confirmed his strengths, which he had shown in his seasons in college. After an engagement in Neuchatel, he joined in January 2006 in the Finnish Korisliiga to Kouvot from Kouvola, before he first returned in the summer of 2006 in his home and in the Continental Basketball Association was active for the then newly founded and is now set back from Butte Daredevils. The following summer, he played in the summer league USBL. In January 2008, he was not a renewed commitment in Europe, this time in French-speaking Switzerland, but in France itself after nine games for the then in the French second division LNB Pro B gambling club from Reims, he returned in March, 2008 in the United States played back and from then on for the Dakota Wizards of the NBA Development League. In September 2010 the German first division reported from the Phoenix Hagen, Westphalia, the obligation of Bell for the starting season. For the season 2011/2012 Bell moved to the Netherlands to the gas Terra Flames of Groningen in February After a year in the Netherlands, Bell moved back to Germany and joined for the 2012/2013 season again Phoenix Hagen.

Others

With Daren Engellant, then still at Brandt Hagen, and Jordan Hasquet played two other former players of the Montana Grizzlies first division basketball in Hagen. Although the four years younger Hasquet was also active in Finland and Switzerland, Bell and Hasquet never played together in a team.