American basketball player
Ryan Christopher Thompson (born June 9, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for Hapoel Holon of the Israeli Premier League . He played college basketball for Rider University before playing professionally in the NBA D-League , Italy, Belgium, Germany, Serbia, Turkey and Israel.
College career
Thompson played four seasons of college basketball at the Rider University , with the Rider Broncs .[ 1]
Professional career
Thompson went undrafted in the 2010 NBA draft .
For the 2010–11 season he played with the Utah Flash of the NBA Development League .
On July 13, 2011, he signed with Basket Brescia Leonessa of the Italian Legadue Basket for the 2011–12 season.[ 2]
In July 2012, he signed with Generali Okapi Aalstar of Belgium for the 2012–13 season.[ 3]
On July 15, 2013, he signed with Telenet Oostende .[ 4] With Oostende he won the Belgian League and Belgian Cup in the 2013–14 season.
On July 8, 2014, he signed with Brose Baskets of Germany for the 2014–15 season.[ 5] [ 6]
On August 25, 2015, he signed a one-year deal with Crvena zvezda .[ 7] On December 28, 2015, he parted ways with Crvena zvezda after appearing in seventeen ABA league games and ten Euroleague games.[ 8] The same day he signed with Trabzonspor for the rest of the season.[ 9]
On July 13, 2016, he signed with German club Telekom Baskets Bonn for the 2016–17 season.[ 10]
On June 9, 2017, Thompson signed with German club ratiopharm Ulm .[ 11]
On July 28, 2019, Thompson signed with Hapoel Holon of the Israeli Premier League for the 2019–20 season.[ 12]
Career statistics
Euroleague
Personal life
Thompson is the younger brother of former NBA player Jason Thompson .[ 13]
References
^ "Ryan Thompson-Rider Broncs Bio" . gobroncs.com . Retrieved July 8, 2014 .
^ "Leonessa Brescia announces Ryan Thompson" . Sportando.com . July 13, 2011. Retrieved July 8, 2014 .
^ "Okapi Aalstar agreed to terms with Ryan Thompson" . Sportando.com . July 24, 2012. Retrieved July 8, 2014 .
^ "Telenet Ostend tabs Thompson" . Eurocupbasketball.com . July 15, 2013. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 8, 2014 .{{cite news }}
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^ "Bamberg tabs Ryan Thompson" . Eurocupbasketball.com . July 8, 2014. Archived from the original on July 13, 2014. Retrieved July 8, 2014 .
^ "Thompson offiziell bei den Brose Baskets" . brosebaskets.de (in German). July 8, 2014. Archived from the original on July 12, 2014. Retrieved July 8, 2014 .
^ "Crvena Zvezda signs Ryan Thompson" . Euroleague.net . August 25, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
^ "Sporazumni raskid KK Crvena zvezda i Tompsona" . kkcrvenazvezda.rs (in Serbian). December 28, 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
^ "Ryan Thompson officially signs with Trabzonspor" . Sportando.com . December 28, 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
^ "Ryan Thompson kommt aus der Türkei" . telekom-baskets-bonn.de (in German). July 13, 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2016 .
^ "VIELSEITIGER BBL-ALLSTAR KOMMT NACH ULM" . basketball-ulm.com (in German). June 9, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
^ "זר ראשון: ראיין תומפסון בהפועל חולון" . basket.co.il (in Hebrew). July 28, 2019. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
^ "Ryan Thompson in NBA Summer League" . gobroncs.com . July 10, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2014 .
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