Teddy Gipson
Sergerio "Teddy" Gipson (* February 15, 1980 in Farmerville, Louisiana ) is an American professional basketball player who played professionally in Europe in the Netherlands, Germany and France. Last Gipson played in the 2012/13 season in the National Basketball League for the former German double winners Brose Baskets in Bamberg. However, during the season, he left the club and moved back to France.
Career
Born and raised in Farmerville, part of the " Metropolitan Statistical Area " of the city of Monroe, Gipson moved to study in the neighboring state to the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where he in 1998 called for the Razorbacks high school basketball team in the Southeastern Conference ( SEC), the NCAA played. The Razorbacks, in 1994 a nationwide champion and 1995 runner-up, reached under coach Nolan Richardson in Gipsons period from 1999 to 2001 or three times the national finals, but where you eliminated each relatively early, and won in 2000, the championship tournament of the SEC. The final season Gipsons with the Razorbacks in 2002 was overshadowed by the sacking of the former success coach Richardson, who had stood by controversial remarks at a press conference sidelines.
In 2003, Gipson his career as a professional in the Netherlands continued and played for the Amsterdam Basketball Club (ABC), with whom he was in the first game of the 2004 Dutch Cup winner and runner-up. In the following season they won the Demon Astronauts under the Israeli coach Arik Shivek the fifth overall championship for the club. At the end of the season 2005 / 06, in which one could be Cup winners once again the main sponsor got out after it was taken over by XS4ALL. Gipson moved to the German first division Movers Paderborn Baskets, whose coach Douglas Spradley had also started his professional playing career in Amsterdam. Contrary to some expectations, the climber with 16 victories could reach in 34 games in the 2006/07 season a safe mid-table. Gipson took part as performers of the team at BBL All-Star Game in 2007. However, after recovering from Tim Black, the club opted not to Weiterverpfichtung of Gipson for the following season, and these eventually returned to the ABC back to Amsterdam, who had with MyGuide found a new main sponsor and the following championships won in 2008 and 2009. The 2008/09 season was overshadowed by the insolvency of the former main sponsor, so that salaries were not paid on time. Gipson left at the end of the season the club finally making its professional gaming operations ceased two years later.
In the season 2009/10 Gipson signed a contract with Élan Béarnais from Pau in the French second division LNB Pro B. The nine-time French champions had previously descended and managed with Gipson as a master of Pro B its chances of promotion. Gipson was named best foreign players ( " MVP étranger " ) this season, won in the Pro B. He was subsequently suspended for six months, since he had helped in his Amsterdam period a teammate when manipulating the doping test. Despite the lock Gipsons the French West missed after the re-emergence as a ninth -placed the main round to jump into the play- offs to the French championship just barely. In the following season Team Captain Gipson was also invited to the French All-Star Game Pro A. The team, however, only reached seven wins in 30 games and climbed as Penultimate again. For the following season 2012/13 Gipson then returned to the German Basketball Bundesliga, after he was previously each German league and cup committed by the Brose Baskets in Bamberg, in the three years. After he was active only in smaller club competitions of FIBA Europe before, he will compete with the German club in the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2012/13. In February 2013, the premature separation between Gipson and Brose Baskets Bamberg was due to different sporting expectations. Then he returned to France in the LNB Pro A back to the movers and Premiership returnees Élite CSP Limoges. For the team, it was not sufficient for making the play -offs for the championship and they finished under coach Panagiotis Giannakis only the 13th Place.
At the beginning of the 2013/14 season signed a contract with the Bosnian Gipson 's double winners KK Igokea Aleksandrovac from Laktaši in the Republika Srpska. With this club he joined in addition to the ABA league also in the Eurocup 2013/14.