Sonny Weems

Clarence " Sonny " Weems ( born July 8, 1986 in West Memphis, Arkansas ) is an American professional basketball player. Weems began his professional career in the most highly endowed U.S. professional league NBA, but was stopped again and again to the farm team Colorado 14ers during its first season by the Denver Nuggets. With the 14ers 2009 he won the championship in the NBA Development League, where he was top scorer in each of his team in the finals. After two seasons at the Canadian Club NBA Toronto Raptors Weems moved from 2011 to Europe. In the season 2012/13 Weems is the dominant Russian series champion CSKA from Moscow under contract.

College (2004 to 2008)

For his studies joined Weems in 2004 in his native U.S. state to the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith, for their high school team Lions he was active in the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association and with whom he won the national championship this league in 2006. He then moved to the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville further, for their high school team Razorbacks, he was active in the Southeastern Conference of the NCAA Division I. With the Razorbacks twice after qualifying for the national finals, but in the one resigned early in the first or second round.

NBA (2008 to 2011)

In the 2008 NBA Draft selected by the Chicago Bulls, Weems was already two days later passed on to the Denver Nuggets in exchange for, among other things Ömer Aşık. This put him after a groin problem to start in his first NBA game time only sporadically, so he played a total of only twelve games. Instead, he was stopped repeatedly for the farm team Colorado 14ers in the D- League. The team with the subsequent Basketball Bundesliga players Eddie Gill and Joe Dabbert Weems reached with the 14ers the finals of the league, where you smoothly through sat down in the " best-of -three " series in two games against the Utah Flash and the Championship 2009 won. Weems was in both games top scorer of his team. After the championship Weems was traded over the Milwaukee Bucks to the Canadian NBA team Toronto Raptors. The Raptors of the well-known thanks to his good athleticism for his spectacular play Weems was used significantly more than the nuggets and temporary belonged to the " Starting Five " of the team.

Europe (from 2011)

During the lockout the NBA 2011 Weems joined the Lithuanian club Zalgiris Kaunas, which he never left again even after the lockout in December 2011. Against the Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius eternal rivals both the national championship and the title in the Baltic Basketball League was defended. In the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2011/12 they reached the second group stage of the 16 best teams, but in the one remained winless in six games. In the season 2012/13 Weems joined the Russian series champion CSKA Moscow, who had surprisingly lost the final match of the Euro League.