| Position | Point guard |
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| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight | 180 lb (82 kg) |
| League | Israeli Super League Euroleague Adriatic |
| Team | Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. |
| Born | February 22, 1978 Leesville, Louisiana, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| High school | Leesville High |
| College | McNeese State University |
| Draft | Undrafted, 2001 |
| Pro career | 2001–present |
| Career history | Phantoms Braunschweig (2001-04) GHP Bamberg (2004-06) Rhein-Energie Cologne (2006-07) DKV Joventut (2007-09) Türk Telekom B.K. (2009-10) Spirou Charleroi (2010-11) |
Dayon Demond Mallet (born February 22, 1978, in Leesville, Louisiana) is an American professional basketball player that played the 2010-11 season professionally with Spirou Charleroi in Belgium and currently the 2011-12 season in Israel with Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.. Before that he played for ACB club Joventut Badalona. He is a 6'2" guard. As of 2008, Mallet has won a German Championship, two German Cup titles, a ULEB Cup, and won the prestigious Spanish King's Cup with the team Joventut Badalona. He is a cousin of NBA center Shaquille O'Neal. Mallet who won the German Championship MVP in 2006 won the Belgium Ethias League MVP in 2011 and the Belgium Championship that same year.
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Mallet played high school basketball at Leesville High, after which he enrolled at McNeese State University and was NCAA Division 1 All-American Honorable Mention 2001. He was also named Southland Conference Player of the Year (2000–2001).
Mallet played most of his career so far in Germany at the Bundesliga, the country's premier basketball league but later moved to Spain and then Turkey and in 2010 Belgium where he signed a two-year contract reportedly to be the highest-paid player in Belgium.
In December 2011 he signed a one-year contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. in Israel.[1]
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