Monta McGhee
Monta McGhee (born 11 November 1979) is an American professional basketball player. After studying in his native country was McGhee professional in Europe. McGhee was in Denmark and the Netherlands with its respective teams national champion. After the Cuxhaven BasCats runner-up to the second highest German division ProA 2007/ 08, he played for the Giants Nördlingen also a season in the German top flight. In the National Basketball League in 2008/ 09 he was an average of just over 14 points per game tenth best scorer and average 8 rebounds third best rebounder of the season.
Career
Born and raised in Chicago McGhee began in 2000 to study at Kishwaukee College in Malta ( Illinois), where he played for their high school team Kougars in the National Junior College Athletic Association. He was twice voted best player of the NJCAA - Conference, played in the Kougars, and 2012 for his sporting achievements in the " Athletic Hall of Fame" ( German Athlete Hall of Fame ) added this university. To continue his studies McGhee remained in Illinois and went to Lewis University in Romeoville. For their high school team Flyers he played in the NCAA Division II In his second year he was in 2004 by the Association of American college basketball coach ( NABC ) as one of the 16 best players ( " All-American ") of the Division II award.
As a Division II players remained McGhee after graduation in 2004 without much chance of a lucrative professional contract. Nevertheless, he began a career as a professional player and first got a contract in minimalist Danish league. After one season in 2005 he moved to Horsens to Idræts Club, which is one of the most successful basketball teams in Denmark. With this team he won the 2006 for the fourth time in club history the championship against defending Bakken Bears. A year later, they finished in the play- offs for the championship in third place. McGhee then moved to the neighboring country of Germany from the Baltic to the North Sea coast to the BasCats from Cuxhaven. The Cuxhaven reached in the second division ProA 2007/ 08 as runners-up a promotion place, but could not perceive it, because they were for economic and infrastructural reasons, with no prospect of a license is granted. McGhee was honored in the ProA Player of the Month December 2007. After the season, he moved along with his teammates Cuxhaven Danny Gibson to point the same master VPV Giants Nördlingen, who had received a license for the basketball league and perceived the rise.
In the National Basketball League in 2008 /09, the Movers Giants Nördlingen was able to keep surprisingly well and reached McGhee in the league against the more established clubs LTi Giessen 46ers and polar bears Bremerhaven. For economic reasons, the Nördlinger gave up another top-flight season and voluntarily opted into the ProA again. McGhee changed again along with Gibson to neighboring Netherlands and played for the club from suffering. After the team had the almost lost in the semifinal series championship play-offs 2010 against eventual champions Gas Terra Flames, Gibson moved as top scorer of the Dutch Basketball League back to Germany for newly promoted Premiership BBC Bayreuth. McGhee stayed with Zorg en Zekerheid, the sponsors name of the team, and won in a dramatic final series in seven games against defending Gas Terra Flames after 33 years of the second championship for this club. In the 2011/12 season he played in the neighboring country of Belgium for the Bears from lions, however, could not be placed in the front box of the Ethias League. In the season 2012/13 McGhee then got a contract in the second Israeli Liga Leumit with Elitzur Yavne from.