Demond Greene
Bayern Munich | |||||||||||||||
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Position | Assistant coach | ||||||||||||||
League | Basketball Bundesliga | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Born | Fort Hood, Texas, U.S. | 15 June 1979||||||||||||||
Nationality | German / American | ||||||||||||||
Listed height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 95 kg (209 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
NBA draft | 2001: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1997–2014 | ||||||||||||||
Position | Shooting guard | ||||||||||||||
Number | 24 | ||||||||||||||
Coaching career | 2015–present | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
As player: | |||||||||||||||
1997–2002 | DJK Würzburg | ||||||||||||||
2002–2005 | Bayer Leverkusen | ||||||||||||||
2005–2007 | Alba Berlin | ||||||||||||||
2007–2009 | Brose Baskets | ||||||||||||||
2009–2010 | Olympia Larissa | ||||||||||||||
2010–2014 | Bayern Munich | ||||||||||||||
As coach: | |||||||||||||||
2018–2020 | Bayern Munich II | ||||||||||||||
2020–present | Bayern Munich (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
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Demond Greene (born 15 June 1979) is a German–American professional basketball coach and former player. He played professionally for several seasons in, amongst others, the EuroLeague, the Greek Basket League and the German Basketball Bundesliga. Greene was a member of the Germany national team for several years and appeared with the team on both the FIBA World Championship and the Olympics.
Early life
[edit]Greene was born in Fort Hood, Texas, to an American father and German mother. The family later moved to Aschaffenburg in Germany where he grew up.[1]
Professional career
[edit]Greene played with the number 24 for Bayern Munich from 2010 to 2014. Before transferring to Munich he played one season for the Greek club GS Olympia Larissa of the Greek Basket League. Before that he played two years for Brose Baskets from Bamberg and one year for Alba Berlin. During his time at Bayer Giants Leverkusen (2002–2005), he became one of the best German shooters. From 1997 to 2002 Greene played with DJK Würzburg, where he was a teammate of 13-time NBA All-Star Dirk Nowitzki.[2]
National team career
[edit]Greene was a member of the senior German national basketball team.[1] He played at the EuroBaskets of 2005, 2007, and 2009; and also at the FIBA World Cups of 2006 and 2010. He also played at the Summer Olympic Games in 2008.[3]
In all competitions, he averaged 7.3 points, 1.8 rebounds, and 0.7 assists per game.
Career statistics
[edit]GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | PIR | Performance Index Rating |
Bold | Career high |
EuroLeague
[edit]Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG | PIR |
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2007–08 | Bamberg | 11 | 11 | 27.0 | .476 | .393 | 1.000 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.2 | .0 | 9.2 | 6.1 |
Career | 11 | 11 | 27.0 | .476 | .393 | 1.000 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.2 | .0 | 9.2 | 6.1 |
Coaching career
[edit]Until 2018, he served as coach in the Bayern Munich youth set-up, from 2018 to 2020 he was the head coach of Bayern's reserve team and was named an assistant coach of the Bayern Bundesliga squad in 2020.[4]
Personal life
[edit]Greene's father is African American, and his mother is German.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Andreas Burkert (19 May 2010). "Diesel Demond". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ Ingo Schmidt-Tychsen (23 October 2005). "Weitspringer unter dem Korb Albas Demond Greene kam spät zum Basketball". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Demond Greene". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Greene, Vertemati und Lindner neu in Trinchieris Trainerteam". FC Bayern Basketball.
External links
[edit]- Demond Greene Archived 28 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine at beko-bbl.de (in German)
- Demond Greene at draftexpress.com
- Demond Greene at eurobasket.com
- Demond Greene at euroleague.net
- Demond Greene at fiba.com
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Alba Berlin players
- Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players from Texas
- Basketball players with retired numbers
- Bamberg Baskets players
- FC Bayern Munich basketball players
- German basketball coaches
- German men's basketball players
- German sportspeople of American descent
- German people of African-American descent
- Greek Basket League players
- Olympia Larissa B.C. players
- Würzburg Baskets players
- Olympic basketball players for Germany
- People from Fort Cavazos
- Point guards
- Shooting guards
- 2010 FIBA World Championship players
- 2006 FIBA World Championship players
- American men's basketball players
- Naturalised basketball players
- 21st-century American sportsmen