Demond Greene
Demond Greene ( born June 15, 1979 in Fort Hood, Texas, USA ) is a German basketball national team, which is derived from an American father and a German mother. His basketball player rather small body size of 1.85 m offset of playing at the guard position Greene by a good throw distance and an athletic style of play, where he can shine with spectacular actions again and again by its bounce.
Demond Greene began at the age of 16 years with the basketball games. Together with the later NBA star Dirk Nowitzki, he managed in the baskets from Würzburg in 1998 the rise of the second basketball league in the highest German league. In 2002 he moved to Bayer Giants Leverkusen. After he was first appointed to the Germany squad in 2001, he could continue to develop in Leverkusen to one of Germany's best bowler in the BBL. In the season 2005/ 06 he moved from the Bayer Giants to Alba Berlin, with whom he was in 2006 German Cup winner and runner-up. After the end of the 2006/07 season the new Alba coach Luka Pavićević waived the renewal of the expired contract and Greene moved to the beginning of the 2007/08 season, initially for two years the reigning German champions Brose Baskets Bamberg. There, however, his contract was not renewed after the end of the season 2008 /2009. In the 2009/10 season he played for Greek club Olympia Larissa in the Greek A1 Ethniki. National coach Dirk peasant, who had signed him in 2007 for the Brose Baskets, Greene brought back to Germany to support the basketball team of Bayern Munich during the ascent from the ProA in the Bundesliga. This ascent already succeeded in Greene's first season 2010/ 11, in which Greene himself had to suspend most of the season due to a hamstring injury.
With the German national team in 2005 Greene became European vice-champion at the European Basketball Championships. In the Basketball World Championship 2006 in Japan, he developed into a major force in the German national team. In the lost quarter-final game against the U.S. Selection him made a spectacular block against Dwyane Wade, who had a few weeks before prepared in the jersey of Miami Heat Greene's teammate Dirk Nowitzki in the final matches of the NBA season 2005/ 06 bitter hours. Was he at the European Championships in 2005 nor a pure defensive specialist, he convinced a year later, both in defense and in attack. At the 2007 European Championships in Spain Greene finished with the national team under national coach Dirk Bauermann the 5th Place.
In August 2008 he participated with the German national team at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, for which Germany qualified to the third place in the qualifying tournament in Athens. The German selection difference in this tournament in the preliminary round and suffered in the last game against the eventual Olympic champion from the United States a depressing defeat 57:106 with the most clearly decisive game of the entire Olympic tournament in 2008 and one of the highest defeats representing the national team at all.