DaShaun Wood

DaShaun Wood

Position	Point guard
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	167 lb (76 kg)
League	Basketball Bundesliga
Team	Alba Berlin
Born	September 29, 1985 (1985-09-29) (age 26) Detroit
Nationality	American
High school	Crockett High School
College	Wright State University
Draft	Undrafted, 2007
Pro career	2007–present
Career history	Pallacanestro Cantù (2007-08) Pallacanestro Treviso (2008-09) Skyliners Frankfurt (2010-11)
Awards	Horizon League Player of the Year 2006-07 Bundesliga MVP 2010-11

DaShaun Wood (born September 29, 1985 in Detroit) is an American basketball player. As of 1 July 2011 (2011 -07-01)^[update], he's under contract with Bundesliga club Alba Berlin. A point guard, Wood was named Horizon League Player of the Year in 2007 and Bundesliga MVP in 2011.

College career

DaShaun Lynch grew up in Detroit, were he went to Crockett High School. Soon after joining the Wright State Raiders in 2003, he changed his family name from "Lynch" to "Wood", his father's name.^[1][2] In his senior year, Wood led the Raiders to the Horizon League championship and, subsequently, its second-ever NCAA tournament appearance. He had also been the league's top scorer during the regular season and was named its Player of the Year, the first Raider to achieve that feat.^[3]

Professional career

After being left unselected in the 2007 NBA Draft, Wood began his professional career by signing with the Italian club Pallacanestro Cantù. He soon emerged as one of the best players in the Lega Basket Serie A and finished the season as one of only two players in the league scoring more than 600 points during that year.^[4] The following year, Wood played for another Italian club, Pallacanestro Treviso, but, soon after joining Treviso, suffered a sore tendon caused by a bone spur in the knee, which forced him to sit out for two months and continued to hamper him for the rest of the season.^[5] In order to fully recover from the injury, he did not play for any professional team during the 2009-10 season. Wood joined the German club Skyliners Frankfurt in 2010, leading the Bundesliga in points scored and claiming the MVP award for the 2010-2011 season.^[6] After the departure of coach Gordon Herbert, Wood joined him at his new club Alba Berlin.^[7]

References

1. ^ Mean streets helped shape Wright State's Wood
2. ^ WSU player bio
3. ^ Horizon League Announces Men's Basketball All-League Teams and Specialty Award Winners
4. ^ Best scorers of the 2007-08 Lega Basket Serie A season
5. ^ „Frankfurt steht an erster Stelle!“ (German)
6. ^ Most Valuable Player - DaShaun Wood (Deutsche Bank Skyliners) (German)
7. ^ "MVP" DaShaun Wood folgt Herbert zu Alba! (German)

External links

• Bundesliga profile
• Eurocup profile
• Lega Basket Serie A profile
• College stats at sports-reference.com

Persondata
Name	Wood, DaShaun
Alternative names	Lynch, DaShaun (former name)
Short description	American basketball player
Date of birth	September 29, 1985
Place of birth	Detroit, Michigan
Date of death
Place of death