Connor_Wood_(basketball)

Connor Wood (basketball)

Connor Wood (basketball)

Canadian basketball player

Connor John Wood[1] (born May 29, 1993) is a Canadian professional basketball player. Wood plays the guard position.

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College career

During his college career, he won five straight CIS championships with the Carleton Ravens.[2] Wood was the recipient of the Mike Moser Memorial Trophy as the CIS Outstanding Player in 2016-17[3] and also earned All-Canada First Team as well as OUA Player of the Year[4] and CIS Tournament All-Star Team honours that year.[5] As a fifth-year player, Wood averaged 19.2 points a game in 2016-17, while nailing 50.8 per cent of his shots from the floor and 50.3 percent from beyond the arc.[2]

Professional career

In November 2017, he signed his first contract as a professional basketball player, joining the Niagara River Lions of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada).[6] He made 44 appearances for the River Lions in his rookie season, averaging 9.3 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists per contest.[7]

On July 30, 2018, Wood signed with Paderborn Baskets of the ProA, the second-tier league in Germany.[8] He saw action in 28 ProA games during the 2018-19 campaign, averaging 12.7 points, 2.9 assists, 2.7 rebounds per contest.[9] Draining 43.3% of his shots taken from beyond the arc (71-of-164), he was Paderborn's leading three-point shooter.[10] Wood moved to UJAP Quimper of the French ProB in April 2019.[11] He finished the 2018-19 season with the French second-division club, averaging 8.9 points and 1.9 rebounds per contest (seven games played).[12] Later in 2019, he played for the Guelph Nighthawks in the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL), scoring a team-high 16.1 points per game, while dishing out 3.7 assists a contest.[13] He subsequently joined Rio Ourense of the Spanish second division LEB Oro for the 2019-20 season.[14] He shot 45.9% on 133 threes in 24 games during the 2019-20 season, scoring 9.0 points per contest, along with 2,7 rebounds and 1.0 assist per game.[15]

National team career

He competed for Canada at the 2017 World University Games in Taiwan.[16]

Posting 14 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists a contest, Wood helped Team Canada capture the 2017 William Jones Cup title.[17]

References

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    "El COB apuesta por Connor Wood". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2019-08-24. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
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