Damon Johnson (basketball)

Damon Johnson
	Damon Johnson with Keflavík in 2015.
Personal information
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	Hiwassee (1992–1993); Tennessee (1993–1996);
NBA draft	1996 / Undrafted
Playing career	1996–2015
Position	Small forward
Career history
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
Career highlights and awards
	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); Spanish LEB All-Star Game (2000);
Men's basketball
Representing Iceland
Games of the Small States of Europe

Damon S. Johnson (born March 1, 1974) is an American/Icelandic 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]

Icelandic national team

Johnson played 5 games for the Icelandic national basketball team in 2003^[6] He participated at the 2003 Games of the Small States of Europe, helping Iceland finishing second.^[7]

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)

↑ "Damon Johnson í efstu deild á Spáni". Mbl.is (in Icelandic). February 21, 2004. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
↑ Viðurkenningar - Besti erlendi leikmaður úrvalsdeildar karla
↑ "Mikil blessun fyrir mig að fá þetta tækifæri". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). August 13, 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
↑ Jónsson, Óskar Ófeigur (March 11, 2015). "41 árs en samt gríðarlega mikilvægur fyrir Keflavíkurliðið". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 24 August 2017.
↑ "Damon Johnson fyrr og nú". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). March 31, 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
↑ A-landslið karla
↑ Sigurður Elvar Þórólfsson (6 June 2003). "Á eftir að læra þjóðsönginn". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 31 August 2018.

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