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James Gist

Gist with Crvena zvezda in 2019
Power forward
Personal information
Born	(1986-10-26) October 26, 1986 (age 38) Adana, Turkey
Nationality	American / Turkish
High school	Our Lady of Good Counsel (Wheaton, Maryland)
Listed height	6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Listed weight	235 lb (107 kg)
Career information
College	Maryland (2004–2008)
NBA Draft	2008 / Round: 2 / Pick: 57th overall
Selected by the San Antonio Spurs
Pro career	2008–2024
Career history
2008–2009	Biella
2009–2010	Lokomotiv Kuban
2010–2011	Partizan
2011–2012	Fenerbahçe
2012	Málaga
2012–2019	Panathinaikos
2019–2020	Crvena zvezda
2020–2021	Bayern Munich
2021–2022	ASVEL
2022–2023	Bahçeşehir Koleji
2023	Peñarol
2024	Prawira Bandung
Career highlights and awards
Pro A champion (2022) 5× Greek League champion (2013, 2014, 2017–2019) 3× All-Greek League Defensive Team (2015–2017) 3× All-Greek League Second Team (2014–2017) 6× Greek Cup winner (2013–2017, 2019) 4× Greek All-Star Game (2013, 2014, 2018, 2019) ABA League champion (2011) Serbian League champion (2011) Serbian Cup winner (2011) Serbian Cup MVP (2011) Spanish League League Slam Dunk Contest winner (2012) Turkish Super League All-Star (2012) Second-team All-ACC (2008) ACC All-Defensive Team (2008)

James Clough Gist III (born October 26, 1986) is an American former professional basketball player. Standing at 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), he played as a power forward and small ball center. Born in Adana, Turkey, he played high school basketball for Our Lady of Good Counsel, before enrolling to the University of Maryland to play college basketball for the Terrapins, from 2004 to 2008. Gist was considered for a time one of the best forward-centers in Europe, due to his defensive abilities and for his dunks, alley-oops, and his athleticism.

High school career

Gist attended Our Lady of Good Counsel High School. In his senior season, he averaged 19.5 points per game, to go along with 10.3 rebounds and 3.5 blocks per game, while he also became his school's all-time leader in blocked shots, with over 300.

College career

Gist played college basketball at the University of Maryland, where he played with the Maryland Terrapins. Gist scored a career-high 31 points against Wake Forest. Throughout the course of 4 NCAA Division I seasons, Gist appeared in 130 games for Maryland, averaging 10.9 points per game, 6.0 rebounds per game, and 1.8 blocks per game. At the time of his graduation, Gist was fourth all-time in blocked shots for Maryland, with 231, tenth in rebounds, with 783, and seventeenth in points scored, with 1,414 (later surpassed by Greivis Vásquez).

Professional career

Gist was drafted 57th overall, in the 2008 NBA draft, by the San Antonio Spurs. After spending a year with the Italian League club Biella, Gist signed a contract with the Russian team Lokomotiv-Kuban for the 2009–10 season. Gist played for the Spurs in the 2010 NBA Summer League, but was waived on October 19, 2010.

Then he played with Partizan Belgrade during the 2010–11 season, where he won the Basketball League of Serbia championship, the Radivoj Korać Cup, and the Adriatic League championship. In the summer of 2011, he signed a contract with the Turkish League club Fenerbahçe Ülker. ..... On July 7, 2012, Fenerbahçe announced that Gist would not play the next season with the club.

On August 15, 2012, Gist signed one-year deal (with an option for one more season) with the Spanish League club Unicaja Málaga. On September 26, he won the slam dunk contest of the Spanish League. Gist joined the legendary Greek League club Panathinaikos, in December 2012, as part of a trade with Andy Panko. At the end of the season, Gist renewed his contract with Panathinaikos for two additional seasons.

Gist with Panathinaikos

On March 17, 2015, Panathinaikos announced that they had agreed to terms with Gist to renew his contract for an extra two years, keeping him in Athens until 2017.

..... Eventually, on May 12, Gist was suspended for 8 months from participating in sports events. In the end, his suspension was reduced to 6 months, and Gist was allowed to play normally, from the beginning of the season. On October 22, 2015, while competing with Panathinaikos in a EuroLeague 2015–16 season game against Karşıyaka, Gist made a new personal EuroLeague career single-game scoring high, with 27 points scored.

On July 5, 2017, Gist signed a two-year contract extension with Panathinaikos.

On July 8, 2019, Gist signed a two-year contract with Serbian team Crvena zvezda. He averaged 7.0 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game.

On December 3, 2020, he signed with Bayern Munich of the Basketball Bundesliga.

On September 25, 2021, he has signed with ASVEL of the LNB Pro A. The contract was extended to the end of the season on December 15.

On November 4, 2022, he signed with Bahçeşehir Koleji of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He also played in Uruguay for Peñarol and in Indonesia for Prawira Bandung, before ending his playing career by joining the Pro-Fit Basketball Training camp as a trainer.

Personal life

Gist is the son of Linda and James C. Gist Jr., and was born in İncirlik, Adana, Turkey, on October 26, 1986, when his father was in the US Air Force, and stationed at İncirlik Air Base. He was the first American child who was born at İncirlik Air Base.

Career statistics

EuroLeague

See also

In Spanish: James Gist para niños