Frédéric Weis

Frédéric Weis ( born June 10, 1977 in Thionville ) is a French basketball player.

Career

Weis played for PAOK Thessaloniki in the Greek league, Unicaja Málaga and Iurbentia Bilbao in the Spanish league and CSP Limoges in the French league. On 28 January 2009 he was dismissed from Iurbentia Bilbao because he had missed three games in a row due to his health condition, then he signed on 13 February at ViveMenorca.

He was pulled in the NBA Draft in 1999 by the New York Knicks in 15th place in the first round, but it should never come to a commitment in the NBA. In this draft, many Knicks fans got upset because Ron Artest, who grew up in Queens and had played for the St. John 's University, was also not yet drafted. Artest was then drafted by the Chicago Bulls later a place. On August 29, his rights from the New York Knicks for power forward Patrick Ewing Jr. to the Houston Rockets were traded.

" Le dunk de la mort"

Weis is known to have been humiliated for it during the Olympic basketball tournament on 25 September 2000 in Sydney by Vince Carter. Carter won the ball in defense and moved to the opponent's basket before the back geeilte Weis had built. However, rather than decelerate jumped Carter (1.98 m) just over Weis ( 2.18 m) and dunkte the ball The U.S. won this game 106:94 and the French press called this Dunk " le dunk de la mort ": "The death - dunk. "