Derrick Phelps

Derrick Phelps ( born July 31, 1972 in New York City's Queens borough ) is a retired American professional basketball player who played as a professional, especially in Europe, of which several seasons in the German Basketball Bundesliga. Because of its game overview and the ability to direct as point guard and playmaker the play of his team, he also got the nickname General. With Alba Berlin Phelps was twice German champion, but he was in 2002 with the victory in the Cup competition double winners.

USA

While studying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phelps played for the renowned basketball team under coach Dean Smith Tar Heels. In 1993 he won along with Donald Williams, Henrik Rödl, George Lynch and Eric Montross the national championship of NCAA Division I in a dramatic final against the later disqualified Wolverines of the University of Michigan that due to a technical error of the College Stars and later number 1 picks Chris Webber was decided in the NBA Draft in 1993, when this in possession located a non-existing break in the closing seconds demanded. Phelps holds for the Tar Heels, for which Michael Jordan was active in college, still the record for the most wins ball in his college career and in a game.

After he was not selected in the NBA Draft 1994, Phelps played after his studies first in the Continental Basketball Association for two seasons for the Chicago Rockers. At the end of the season 1994/95 he came to three brief appearances in the Sacramento Kings in the NBA. He was also in the squad at the training camps before the season with the Milwaukee Bucks (1994) and the Philadelphia 76ers (1997) and was selected in the expansion draft in 1995 by the League newcomer Vancouver Grizzlies, but never called for the season's squad. According to a 1996/ 97 in Germany, he returned for the 1997/98 season once again in the CBA back to play for the Rockers, who were now transferred as Bobcats to La Crosse, and Rockford Lightning.

Europe

1996 Phelps was taken from the TTL Bamberg for the 1996/97 BBL season under contract. Bamberg different this season from the play-off semi-final against the upstart and eventual runner- Telekom Baskets Bonn. That club engaged Phelps finally himself, where he played from 1998 to 2000 and could reach another runner-up for the club in 1999. For BBL season 2000/ 01 Phelps was finally taken off the dominant series champion Alba Berlin under contract and he could with his teammates, among whom was his Tar Heels teammates Henrik Rödl was to reach two more championships in 2001 and 2002, of which the latter in combination with the Cup victory as a Double. In 2002, Phelps to the French Limoges to the national champion - European champions of 1993 Cercle Saint- Pierre ( CSP), which, however, was in crisis and was able to just barely avoid relegation that season before he was released the following year. Phelps had returned in season 2003/ 04 in the German BBL, and stood in for EnBW Ludwigsburg, which remained, however, sporty stumbled and only because of the bankruptcies of Brandt Hagen and FIBA EuroCup Challenge winner MBC Weissenfels in the league. After a few games for the Polish club Slask Wroclaw from Phelps was active in the 2004/05 season for the Eiffel Tower from the Dutch Nijmegen. While the team in 2005 with EBDC Den Bosch merged and moved to Den Bosch, it attracted Phelps back to Bamberg, where he had begun his career in 1996 Europe. In the BBL season 2005/ 06 was for the defending champions with Phelps as in 1997 in the championship semi-final last stop, this time against the eventual champion Rhein Energie Cologne.

As a result, Phelps was still active for Spartak Primorje from Vladivostok on the Pacific coast in the Asian part of Russia. In the 2009/10 season he also played under his former coach Bruno Bonner Soce the Romanian club from Medias.