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Jason Boone

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Jason Boone
Personal information
Born (1985-10-08) October 8, 1985 (age 39)
Sugar Loaf, New York
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Career information
High schoolWarwick Valley
(Warwick, New York)
CollegeNYU (2003–2007)
NBA draft2007: undrafted
Playing career2007–2019
PositionPower forward / center
Number21
Career history
2007–2008SSV Lokomotive Bernau
2008–2011BG Göttingen
2011–2014S.Oliver Würzburg
2014–2015Konya Selcuk
2015SO Maritime Boulogne
2015–2017MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg
2017Start Lublin
2017–2018CSA Steaua București
2018–2019SCM U Craiova

Jason Gregory Boone (born October 8, 1985) is a retired American professional basketball player.

Career

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High School and College

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Boone attended Warwick Valley High School from 2001 to 2003. He played 45 games, compiling a total of 725 points. In his senior year, Boone was presented with the WVHS – C. Ashley Morgan Male Athlete of The Year Award. He was also a football player at Warwick Valley High. In February 2020, he was inducted into the Warwick High School Boys Basketball Hall of Fame.[1]

Following graduation in 2003, Boone played at NCAA Division 3 school New York University. He appeared in 104 career games at NYU, averaging 12.7 points, 8.1 rebounds, 2.0 blocked shots and 1.6 assists per game. As a senior in 2006–07, Boone was NYU's second-leading scorer (14.1ppg), while also leading the Violets in rebounding (9.6rpg) and blocks (2.4bpg).[2] He earned D3hoops.com All-America Third Team honors that year.[3] During his college career, Boone also garnered 2006 All-University Athletic Association Player of the Year and 2006 and 2007 All-University Athletic Association First Team distinction.[4]

Professional

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Boone started his professional career with SSV Lokomotive Bernau of Germany's third-tier Regionalliga. "I was making less than $1,000 a month. I was out there experiencing it, enjoying it and I was able to say I lived abroad", he told recordonline.com in 2010.[5] In the course of his first year in Germany, he was picked up by BG Göttingen of the country's top-flight Basketball Bundesliga, after Göttingen's Ben Jacobson, a former University of Northern Iowa player, had convinced Göttingen's head coach John Patrick to bring in Boone. Jacobson and Boone had earlier played on an NIT summer all-star team together.[5] Boone would stay in Göttingen until 2011. Thanks to his physical presence in the paint and his outgoing personality, he became a fan favorite.[6] In 2010, he helped Göttingen capture the FIBA EuroChallenge title, averaging 10.7 points and 6.8 rebounds during the title run.[7]

In 2011, Boone followed Coach John Patrick to fellow Bundesliga side S.Oliver Würzburg.[8] Statistically, his best season in the Bundesliga came in 2012–13, when he averaged 10.1 points a game in 34 contests.[9] Following a three-year stint, Boone took his game to Turkey and France, before returning to Germany in 2015. At Ludwigsburg, he again played under Coach Patrick.[10] In February 2017, Boone exercised an option to leave Ludwigsburg and accepted an offer from Polish first-division side Start Lublin,[11] where he played for the remainder of the 2016–17 campaign.

In July 2017, Boone inked a deal with CSA Steaua București of the Romanian top-flight Liga Națională.[12] In the Romanian league, Boone scored at a 7.7 points per game clip during 19:04 minutes of action per outing (20 games), while grabbing 4.8 rebounds a contest in the 2017–18 season.[13] In August 2018, he helped "Team k1x Germany" win the "Jump10" tournament in Shanghai.[14] He retired at the conclusion of the 2018–19 season, which he had spent with Romanian team SCM U Craiova. Boone subsequently moved to Los Angeles and started a career in marketing.[15] He later settled in Nashville, Tennessee, working as a client growth director for a relationship building platform and serving as an ambassador of mental health and wellness.[16]

References

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  1. ^ "Jason Boone Inducted to Warwick Boys Basketball Hall of Fame". Warwick Valley Central Schools. 2020-02-10. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  2. ^ "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  3. ^ "2006–07 Men's All-America Team". D3hoops. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  4. ^ "MEN'S BASKETBALL" (PDF). uaasports.info. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-09-18. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  5. ^ a b "Basketball: Boone making name for himself in Europe". recordonline.com. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  6. ^ "Publikumsliebling geht: Auch Jason Boone verlässt die BG". hna.de (in German). 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  7. ^ "Jason Boone, EuroChallenge (2010)". FIBA Europe. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  8. ^ "Auch Jason Boone kommt aus Göttingen". www.soliver-wuerzburg.de. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  9. ^ "Jason Gregory Boone". www.easycredit-bbl.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  10. ^ "Boone nach Ludwigsburg". www.easycredit-bbl.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  11. ^ "MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg: Jason Boone verlässt die MHP Riesen". Stuttgarter Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  12. ^ "Steaua CSM EximBank Bucuresti lands Jason Boone, ex TBV Start". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  13. ^ "Jucatori – Jason Gregory Boone". Federatia Romana de Baschet. Archived from the original on 2018-08-13. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  14. ^ "100.000 Dollar: Falcons gewinnen "Jump10" in Shanghai". nordbayern.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  15. ^ "Every Athlete Dies Twice". Good Pillar. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
  16. ^ "Jason Boone". www.thnks.com. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
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