Deon Thompson

Deon Marshall Thompson ( born September 16, 1988 in Torrance, California) is an American professional basketball player. Thompson played after his studies, first in Greece and Slovenia, before joining the BBL season 2012/13 the German first division club ALBA Berlin joined. Thompson was in the Greek A1 Ethniki and the Slovenian League " All- Star" and was named MVP of the Slovenian " All- Star Games " and the Slovenian Cup competition, which he won with KK Union Olimpija Ljubljana. In the National Basketball League 2013/14 Thompson, the Beko BBL Cup 2013 won with ALBA Berlin plays for Bayern Munich.

Career

Thompson moved from his California home to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the east coast. Their high school team Tar Heels is one of the most prestigious basketball teams in the NCAA. With this team he won three times from 2007 to 2009, the main round of the Atlantic Coast Conference and also twice the final tournament of this Conference. While in 2009 the semi-finals lost in this competition against the underdog Seminoles of Florida State University, was later the national finals won three weeks in the final against the Spartans of Michigan State University and took the NCAA championship. Then left the dominant player Tyler Hansbrough, the Tar Heels to be professional in the NBA. After Thompson who won the U19 World Junior Championships 2007 in Serbian city of Novi Sad with the U.S. selection the silver medal he won with the U.S. student selection in 2009 the bronze medal at the Summer Universiade 2009 in Belgrade, also at a tournament victory of the Serbian hosts that had just defeated in the second round. After the Tar Heels had previously achieved in three years always at least the quarterfinals of the national tournament, had one in 2010 without Hansbrough just an average success rate and only got an invitation to the " National Invitation Tournament," in which the final against the Flyers the University one of Dayton lost. Unlike Hansbrough and other teammates the Master Team 2009 Thompson, who is one with 152 inserts in NCAA championship games of the ten players in the NCAA with most inserts of all time, was not selected in the 2010 NBA Draft.

After finishing his studies in 2010, therefore, Thompson moved to Europe and played in Greece for Ikaros Espero in the Athens suburb of Kallithea. However, the club missed the playoffs for the Greek Championship and Thompson moved on to the next season to Slovenia. With KK Union Olimpija Ljubljana Thompson also played in the highest ranking European club competition ULEB Euro League 2011/ 12, where the team was eliminated in the group stage after only one win in ten games. Although KK Union Olimpija successfully defended his national cup title in 2012, was being elected Thompson named MVP of the Cup competition, but the final series of the championship was again lost to defending champion and archrival KK Krka from Novo Mesto. For the following season 2012/13 Thompson joined the German club ALBA Berlin in the National Basketball League. In his first season in Germany Thompson was elected to the " All- BBL First Team ". While ALBA Berlin reached, only the second time in club history, the second round of the 16 best teams in the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2012/13 and won at the national level the BBL Cup in 2013, but retired in the first round of the play - offs for the championship against Bayern Munich. For the following season Basketball League 2013/14 Thompson then moved as three of his teammates to Bayern, which are as ALBA a year earlier to participate with a " wild card " in the ULEB Euro League 2013/14.