Damon Johnson (basketball)
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Born | March 1, 1974 | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | American / Icelandic | ||||||||||||||
Listed height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
High school | Science Hill (Johnson City, Tennessee) | ||||||||||||||
College | |||||||||||||||
NBA draft | 1996: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | 1996–2015 | ||||||||||||||
Position | Small forward | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
As player: | |||||||||||||||
1996–1997 | Keflavík | ||||||||||||||
1997–1998 | ÍA | ||||||||||||||
1998–1999 | Keflavík | ||||||||||||||
1999–2000 | Los Barrios Cadiz | ||||||||||||||
2001–2003 | Keflavík | ||||||||||||||
2003–2004 | Caceres | ||||||||||||||
2004 | Polaris World Murcia | ||||||||||||||
2004–2005 | CSF Sevilla | ||||||||||||||
2005 | Lagun Aro Bilbao Basket | ||||||||||||||
2005–2006 | Plus Pujol Lleida | ||||||||||||||
2006–2007 | C.B. Hospitalet | ||||||||||||||
2007 | Ciudad de Huelva | ||||||||||||||
2007–2008 | Alerta Cantabria | ||||||||||||||
2008–2009 | Smoky Mountain Jam | ||||||||||||||
2013 | Keflavík-b | ||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Keflavík | ||||||||||||||
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2010–2012 | King University (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | East Tennessee State (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
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Damon S. Johnson (born March 1, 1974) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild and the Spanish Liga ACB.[1] He won the Icelandic national championship three times and was voted the Úrvalsdeild foreign player of the year twice.[2][3][4][5] A naturalized Icelandic citizen, he played with the Iceland national basketball team in 2003.
Icelandic national team
[edit]Johnson played five games for the Iceland national basketball team[6] during the 2003 Games of the Small States of Europe, where he averaged 17.3 points per game, helping Iceland finishing second.[7]
Coaching career
[edit]Johnson was an assistant coach for King University from 2010 to 2012 and later for East Tennessee State women's basketball team. In 2019 he was hired as the head coach of Providence Academy í Johnson City.[8]
Awards and honours
[edit]Iceland
[edit]- 2x Úrvalsdeild Foreign Player of the year (1999, 2002)
- Úrvalsdeild Domestic All-First team (2003)
- 3x Icelandic champion (1997, 1999, 2003)
- 2x Icelandic Cup champion (1997, 2003)
- 3x Icelandic Company Cup champion (1996, 1998, 2002)
Spain
[edit]- Spanish LEB All-Star Game (2000)
References
[edit]- ^ "Damon Johnson í efstu deild á Spáni". Mbl.is (in Icelandic). February 21, 2004. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
- ^ Viðurkenningar - Besti erlendi leikmaður úrvalsdeildar karla
- ^ "Mikil blessun fyrir mig að fá þetta tækifæri". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). August 13, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
- ^ Jónsson, Óskar Ófeigur (March 11, 2015). "41 árs en samt gríðarlega mikilvægur fyrir Keflavíkurliðið". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved August 24, 2017.
- ^ "Damon Johnson fyrr og nú". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). March 31, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
- ^ A-landslið karla
- ^ Sigurður Elvar Þórólfsson (June 6, 2003). "Á eftir að læra þjóðsönginn". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved August 31, 2018.
- ^ Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (March 26, 2019). "Damon Johnson orðinn aðalþjálfari". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved March 26, 2019.
External links
[edit]- Profile at KKI.is
- Profile at fiba.com
- Eurobasket.com Profile
- Liga ACB stats at basketball-reference.com
- College stats at sports-reference.com
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Johnson City, Tennessee
- Icelandic men's basketball players
- American men's basketball players
- American emigrants to Iceland
- American expatriate basketball people in Iceland
- American expatriate basketball people in Spain
- Basketball players from Tennessee
- Hiwassee Tigers men's basketball players
- Icelandic expatriate basketball people in Spain
- ÍA men's basketball players
- Keflavík men's basketball players
- Tennessee Volunteers basketball players
- Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball) players
- Small forwards
- 20th-century American sportsmen