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Joe Thomasson

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Joe Thomasson
Joe Thomasson playing for Gran Canaria
No. 32 – Gran Canaria
PositionShooting guard / Point guard
LeagueLiga ACB
Personal information
Born (1993-08-16) August 16, 1993 (age 31)
Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
NationalityAmerican / Georgian
Listed height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight165 lb (75 kg)
Career information
High schoolThurgood Marshall
(Dayton, Ohio)
College
NBA draft2016: undrafted
Playing career2016–present
Career history
2016Dinamo București
2017Erie BayHawks
2017–2018Polpharma Starogard Gdański
2018Burevestnik Yaroslavl
2018–2019Start Lublin
2019–2020Stelmet Zielona Góra
2020–2021Hapoel Gilboa Galil
2021–2022Baxi Manresa
2022Zenit Saint Petersburg
2023Promitheas Patras
2023–2024Covirán Granada
2024Maccabi Tel Aviv
2024–presentGran Canaria
Career highlights and awards

Joe Thomasson (born August 16, 1993) is an American-Georgian professional basketball player for Gran Canaria of the Spanish Liga ACB. He played college basketball for State Fair Community College and Wright State.

Early and personal life

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Thomasson was born in Dayton, Ohio.[1] His parents are Joseph E Thomasson Sr and Autumn Daye Bryant.[2] He is 6' 4" (193 cm) tall, and weighs 165 pounds (75 kg).[1]

Thomasson attended and played basketball at Thurgood Marshall High School.[1][3] In his senior year, he was the team captain and averaged 16 points per game, and was named All-Region.[2]

College career

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Thomasson attended State Fair Community College between 2012 and 2014.[4][5] He averaged 14.2 points per game as a freshman, and was named Region 16 First Team.[4] As a sophomore, he averaged 18 points, six assists, and four rebounds a game, and was named a Junior College All American.[4]

After two years, Thomasson moved to Wright State University.[1] In 2014–15, he was second in the Horizon League with a .576 two-point field goal shooting percentage, and ninth in blocks, with 25.[6] In 2015-16, he was fifth in the league with a .819 free throw percentage, sixth in the league in defensive rebounds, with 167, and seventh in assists, with 117.[6] He was named to the Horizon League All-Defensive Team as a senior.[7]

Professional career

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Thomasson began his professional career with a four-game stint to start the 2016–17 season with Dinamo București in Romania.[1] In March 2017, he joined the Erie BayHawks of the NBA D-League.[1]

For the 2017–18 season, Thomasson joined Polpharma Starogard Gdański in Poland.[1]

Thomasson began the 2018–19 season with a six-game stint with BK Burevestnik Yaroslav in Russia. He then joined Start Lublin in Poland in November 2018 for the rest of the season.[1]

On August 5, 2019, Thomasson signed with Stelmet Zielona Góra in Poland.[8]

In May 2020, Thomasson joined Hapoel Gilboa Galil of the Israel Basketball Premier League.[9][7][10] He played for them between June 22 and July 26,[1] and then re-joined the team for the 2020–21 season.[11]

On July 7, 2021, Thomasson signed with Baxi Manresa of the Liga ACB.[12]

On July 11, 2022, Thomasson signed with Russian powerhouse Zenit Saint Petersburg of the VTB United League.[13] He deleted his Twitter account after other Twitter users criticized him for signing with a Russian team, in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.[14] He left the team in late December 2022.[1]

In January 2023, Thomasson joined Greek club Promitheas Patras for the rest of the season. In 14 domestic league matches, he averaged 12.6 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.3 steals, playing around 27 minutes per contest.[1] In May 2023, he joined Spanish club CB Granada for the rest of the season.[1]

Thomasson re-joined Granada for the 2023–24 season but left the team in February 2024 to play out the season with Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel.[1]

On August 9, 2024, he signed with Gran Canaria of the Spanish Liga ACB.[15]

National team career

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Thomasson is a member of the senior Georgian national team. He played with Georgia at the 2024 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Latvia and at the 2025 FIBA EuroBasket Qualifiers.[16]

Career statistics

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Legend
  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

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2023–24 Maccabi Tel Aviv 4 0 6.8 .100 .000 1.000 1.5 1.3 .8 .5 1.0 1.8
Career 4 0 6.8 .100 .000 1.000 1.5 1.3 .8 .5 1.0 1.8

EuroCup

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2022–23 Promitheas Patras 10 1 27.2 .472 .409 .875 2.7 2.6 1.5 .3 14.1 13.1
Career 10 1 27.2 .472 .409 .875 2.7 2.6 1.5 .3 14.1 13.1

Basketball Champions League

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2021–22 Manresa 15 14 27.0 .461 .413 .903 3.2 3.7 1.1 .2 12.9
Career 15 14 27.0 .461 .413 .903 3.2 3.7 1.1 .2 12.9

Domestic leagues

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Year Team League GP MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2016–17 Romania Dinamo București LNBM 4 33.2 .395 .200 .933 3.2 5.7 1.2 .2 11.5
2016–17 United States Erie BayHawks D-League 3 21.8 .571 .600 — 3.3 2.7 .7 .7 6.3
2017–18 Poland Starogard Gdański PLK 25 30.7 .429 .300 .927 4.1 4.9 1.3 .1 13.3
2018–19 Poland Start Lublin PLK 21 32.3 .498 .405 .814 3.7 5.2 1.7 .3 19.3
2019–20 Poland Zielona Góra PLK 22 25.0 .553 .354 .744 2.6 4.3 1.3 .5 9.3
2019–20 Poland Zielona Góra VTBUL 19 25.9 .509 .434 .857 2.6 3.4 .6 .3 12.3
2019–20 Israel Hapoel Gilboa Galil Ligat HaAl 12 31.3 .475 .391 .907 2.7 3.2 .8 .6 15.7
2020–21 Israel Hapoel Gilboa Galil Ligat HaAl 33 30.2 .454 .380 .821 3.1 4.5 .9 .4 13.4
2020–21 Israel Hapoel Gilboa Galil BIBL 9 25.0 .440 .250 .667 3.2 3.4 .6 .1 9.7
2021–22 Spain Manresa ACB 35 26.5 .447 .385 .917 2.7 3.5 .6 .2 13.2
2022–23 Russia Zenit VTBUL 14 15.8 .438 .435 .833 1.6 2.0 .4 .1 5.1
2022–23 Greece Promitheas Patras HEBA A1 14 26.8 .409 .293 .949 3.6 3.9 1.4 .1 12.6
2022–23 Spain Granada ACB 4 30.1 .469 .474 .833 2.0 3.0 1.7 — 15.0
2023–24 Spain Granada ACB 20 31.1 .472 .346 .870 3.4 3.4 1.0 .3 14.0
2023–24 Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv Ligat HaAl 20 18.5 .452 .429 .933 1.7 2.5 .9 .2 6.4

College

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Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2014–15 Wright State 28 23 31.1 .492 .305 .779 5.5 3.2 .9 .9 10.0
2015–16 Wright State 35 34 29.8 .427 .352 .819 5.3 3.3 .8 .5 9.6
Career 63 57 30.4 .455 .333 .801 5.4 3.3 .8 .7 9.8

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Joe Thomasson Basketball Player Profile, Hapoel Galil Gilboa, News, Winner League, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards". Eurobasket LLC.
  2. ^ a b "Joe Thomasson - Men's Basketball". Wright State University Athletics.
  3. ^ Harris, Doug (August 28, 2016). "Thomasson not your average Joe". Dayton Daily News.
  4. ^ a b c Wright State University Men's Basketball Media Guide 2015-2016, November 13, 2015.
  5. ^ Archdeacon, Tom (October 31, 2014). "WSU's Thomasson feeling right at home". Dayton Daily News.
  6. ^ a b "Joe Thomasson College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com.
  7. ^ a b "Joe Thomasson Player Profile, Erie BayHawks, NCAA Stats, G League Stats, International Stats, Game Logs, Bests, Awards - RealGM". basketball.realgm.com.
  8. ^ Maggi, Alessandro (August 5, 2019). "Stelmet Enea BC Zielona Gora signs Joe Thomasson". Sportando. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
  9. ^ "ISRAEL BASKETBALL SUPER LEAGUE | 2019-20 Season | Hapoel Gilboa Galil | Joe Thomasson". basket.co.il.
  10. ^ ""I'm ready to embrace the new challenge of being a leader and helping my guys get better" Joe Thomasson leads Gilboa to WINNER Cup QF with 78-72 win over Bnei Herzliya!". September 23, 2020.
  11. ^ Skerletic, Dario (August 23, 2020). "Hapoel Galil Gilboa keeps Joe Thomasson". Sportando.
  12. ^ Skerletic, Dario (July 7, 2021). "Joe Thomasson joins Baxi Manresa on two-year deal". Sportando. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
  13. ^ "Joe Thomasson joines Zenit". en.bc-zenit.com. July 11, 2022. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
  14. ^ Abrams, Jonathan (September 20, 2022). "Despite War and Griner's Arrest, American Men Hoop in Russia". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  15. ^ "Gran Canaria announces Joe Thomasson at guard". euroleaguebasketball.net. August 9, 2024. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
  16. ^ "Joe Thomasson". FIBA. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
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