Demond Mallet
 Mallet, at right, with Joventut in 2009. | |
| No. 0 – SLUC Nancy Basket | |
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| Position | Point guard |
| League | LNB Pro A |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
February 22, 1978 Leesville, Louisiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Listed weight | 195 lb (88 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Leesville (Leesville, Louisiana) |
| College | McNeese State (1997–2001) |
| NBA draft | 2001 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 2001–present |
| Career history | |
| 2001–2004 | Phantoms Braunschweig |
| 2004–2006 | GHP Bamberg |
| 2006–2007 | Rhein-Energie Cologne |
| 2007–2009 | Joventut |
| 2009–2010 | Türk Telekom |
| 2010–2011 | Spirou Charleroi |
| 2011–2012 | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
| 2012 | Spirou Charleroi |
| 2012–2013 | Artland Dragons |
| 2013–2014 | Spirou Charleroi |
| 2014–2016 | Joventut |
| 2017–present | SLUC Nancy Basket |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Dayon Demond Mallet (born February 22, 1978) is an American professional basketball player for SLUC Nancy Basket of the LNB Pro A. He played college basketball at McNeese State University.
Mallet won a German Championship, the German Cup title, an ULEB Cup championship, which is now called the EuroCup, and he won the prestigious Spanish King's Cup title with the team Joventut Badalona. Mallet won the Belgian League MVP in 2011, and the Belgium League championship that same year.
High school
Mallet attended Leesville High, in Leesville, Louisiana, where he played high school basketball.
College career
After high school, Mallet enrolled at McNeese State University, where he played college basketball with the McNeese State Cowboys. He was a NCAA Division I All-American Honorable Mention in 2001. He was also named the Southland Conference's Player of the Year (2000–2001).
Professional career
Mallet played several years in Germany in 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 to reportedly become the highest-paid player in Belgium at the time.
In December 2011, he moved from the Belgium club, during the 2011–12 season, where he was rated as one of the best point guards in the EuroLeague that season, to Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Israel, with whom he signed a one year contract.[1] In April 2012, after not having too much space in the rotation of Maccabi Tel Aviv, he returned to Spirou Charleroi, until the end of the 2011–12 season.[2] The following year, Mallet signed a two-year deal with the Artland Dragons, which was rumored to be the largest contract ever given to a point guard in the German Basketball League. He returned to Spirou again, after that season, and then became a player of FIATC Joventut, where he was also a coach. Mallet was honored at Joventut arena on May 22, 2016, by Joventut, with a banner and recognition of his jersey for all of his accomplishments in European basketball.[3]
On January 10, 2017, Mallet signed with the French club SLUC Nancy Basket, for the rest of the 2016–17 Pro A season.[4]
Honors
- 5x German League All-Star: (2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2007)
- German League Champion: (2005)
- German League All-Star Game MVP: (2007)
- German Cup Winner: (2007)
- German Cup MVP: (2007)
- Spanish King's Cup Winner: (2008)
- EuroCup Champion: (2008)
- Belgian League MVP: (2011)
- Belgian League Champion: (2011)
- Israeli State Cup Winner: (2012)
NBA tryouts
- Summer 2001, Detroit Pistons Summer camp
- Summer 2002, Shaw's Pro Summer League (Boston Celtics)
Personal
Mallet is a cousin of former NBA center Shaquille O'Neal.