Nationality German Role Basketball player Listed height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) Height 2.01 m | Listed weight 205 lb (93 kg) Weight 93 kg Name Niels Giffey Career start 2010 | |
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Position Shooting guard / Small forward League Basketball Bundesliga
Eurocup Born June 8, 1991 (age 32)
Berlin, Germany ( 1991-06-08 ) High school Heinrich Schliemann
(Berlin, Germany) Current team Connecticut Huskies men's basketball (#5 / Guard, Forward) College Connecticut Huskies men's basketball Parents Christine Giffey, Frank Giffey Profiles | ||
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Niels Giffey (born June 8, 1991) is a German basketball player who plays for Alba Berlin of the Basketball Bundesliga. Standing at 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), he plays at the shooting guard and small forward positions. He also represented German national basketball team in the international competitions.
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- Early life
- College career
- Professional career
- Career statistics
- References
He played collegiately for the University of Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team. In his freshman year, he was part of the team that won the 2011 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. He was again one of UConn's key players when they won the NCAA tournament for a second time in four years in 2014. Giffey and his UConn teammates Shabazz Napier and Tyler Olander are the only Division I men's basketball players in history to have won national championships as freshmen and seniors.
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Early life
Giffey was born on June 9, 1991 in Berlin. He is the son of Frank and Christine Giffey. He attended Heinrich-Schliemann-Oberschule and competed for the club team Alba Berlin.
College career
Giffey committed to play basketball at the University of Connecticut under coach Jim Calhoun. As a freshman, he was a reserve on the squad which won the 2011 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. After winning the tournament, he said, “It was such an emotional time for me, that this university, this team, became such a big part of my heart and became so close to me that it never crossed my mind to leave this place. I always felt it was about being a student-athlete at UConn. This school gave me so much when I won my national championship with this team.” Giffey scored four points and grabbed six rebounds in the championship game against Butler. On the season, he averaged 2.2 points and 1.4 rebounds in 9.9 minutes per game.
As a sophomore, Giffey averaged 2.6 points and 1.5 rebounds per game. He missed the first game of the season after hyper extending his elbow in the preseason.
As a junior, he averaged 4.9 points and 3.6 rebounds per game. He injured his knee in a game against Cincinnati on March 3, 2013 and missed the remainder of the season.
In the semifinal game of the 2014 American Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Giffey scored a career-high 24 points, including six three-pointers, to help Connecticut defeat Memphis 72-53 on March 14, 2014.
Professional career
Following graduation, Giffey played on the 2014 Memphis Grizzlies summer league team and then the Utah Jazz summer league team. On July 15, 2014, the German team Alba Berlin announced that they had signed him for three seasons.
Career statistics
Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season. He also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.