Jason Boone

Jason Boone
No. 21 – SCM CSU Craiova
Position Power forward / Center
League Liga Națională
Personal information
Born (1985-10-08) October 8, 1985
Sugar Loaf, New York
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Career information
High school Warwick Valley
(Warwick, New York)
College NYU (2003–2007)
NBA draft 2007 / Undrafted
Playing career 2007–present
Career history
2007–2008 SSV Lokomotive Bernau
2008–2011 BG Göttingen
2011–2014 S.Oliver Würzburg
2014–2015 Konya Selcuk
2015 SO Maritime Boulogne
2015–2017 MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg
2017 Start Lublin
2017–2018 CSA Steaua București
2018–present SCM U Craiova

Jason Gregory Boone (born October 8, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for SCM U Craiova of the Romanian Liga Națională.

Career

College

After graduating from Warwick Valley High School 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 leading the Violets in rebounding (9.6rpg) and blocks (2.4bpg).[1] He earned D3hoops.com All-America Third Team honors that year.[2] 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.[3]

Professional

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.[4] 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.[4] Boone would stay in Göttingen until 2011. Thanks to his physical presence in the paint and his outgoing personality, he became a fan favorite.[5] In 2010, he helped Göttingen capture the FIBA EuroChallenge title, averaging 10.7 points and 6.8 rebounds during the title run.[6]

In 2011, Boone followed Coach John Patrick to fellow Bundesliga side S.Oliver Würzburg.[7] Statistically, his best season in the Bundesliga came in 2012-13, when he averaged 10.1 points a game in 34 contests.[8] 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.[9] In February 2017, Boone exercised an option to leave Ludwigsburg and accepted an offer from Polish first-division side Start Lublin,[10] 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.[11] 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.[12] In August 2018, he helped "Team k1x Germany" win the "Jump10" tournament in Shanghai.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  2. ↑ "2006-07 Men's All-America Team". D3hoops. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  3. ↑ "MEN'S BASKETBALL" (PDF). uaasports.info. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  4. 1 2 INTERDONATO, SAL. "Basketball: Boone making name for himself in Europe". recordonline.com. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  5. ↑ "Publikumsliebling geht: Auch Jason Boone verlässt die BG". hna.de (in German). 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  6. ↑ "Jason Boone | EuroChallenge (2010) | FIBA Europe". www.fibaeurope.com. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  7. ↑ "Auch Jason Boone kommt aus Göttingen: soliver-wuerzburg.de". www.soliver-wuerzburg.de. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  8. ↑ "easyCredit - 9227 Jason gregory BOONE". www.easycredit-bbl.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  9. ↑ "easyCredit - Boone nach Ludwigsburg". www.easycredit-bbl.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  10. ↑ Germany, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart,. "MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg: Jason Boone verlässt die MHP Riesen". stuttgarter-nachrichten.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  11. ↑ "EUROBASKET NEWS". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2017-09-17.
  12. ↑ "Federatia Romana de Baschet - Jucatori - Jason Gregory BOONE". www.frbaschet.ro. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  13. ↑ Germany, nordbayern.de, Nürnberg,. "100.000 Dollar: Falcons gewinnen "Jump10" in Shanghai" (in German). Retrieved 2018-08-22.
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