| Intro | Basketbollist amerikan | ||||
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Athlete Basketball player |
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| From | United States of America | ||||
| Type | Sports | ||||
| Gender | male | ||||
| Birth | 24 September 1989, Dublin | ||||
| Age: | 30 years | ||||
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Marcos Shyderrick Knight (born September 24, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for Afyonkarahisar Belediyespor of the Turkish Basketball First League (TBL).
College career
After attending West Laurens High School in Dublin, Georgia, Knight spent one year each at junior colleges Middle Georgia (2009-10) and Chipola (2010-11). For his sophomore year, he transferred to Middle Tennessee State University. In his two years with the Blue Raiders (2011-13), Knight saw the court in a total of 68 games to average 12.2 points, 5.5 rebounds, 2.7 assists as well as 1.2 steals per outing. He garnered All-Sun Belt 1st Team honors and NABC Division I All-District 24 1st Team distinction as a senior.
Professional career
Coming out of college, Knight worked out with NBA teams Charlotte Bobcats and Brooklyn Nets. He signed with FC Baunach of the German third-tier league ProB in November 2013. Averaging 17.5 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game, he led the team to the ProB finals and to promotion to the ProA, the second highest level of basketball in Germany. After being handed a contract extension for the 2014-15 season, he continued producing for the Baunach team, scoring 15.3 points to go along with 5.9 boards and 2.6 assists per contest on the season.
He started the 2015-16 campaign playing for USC Heidelberg and then took up an offer from fellow ProA side Science City Jena. The move did not happen without controversy, as the Heidelberg team accused him of trying to force the transfer by staying away from practice. After an agreement had been reached, Knight signed with Jena in January 2016. In the following months, he helped the Jena squad win the ProA championship, which earned them promotion to the German top-flight Basketball Bundesliga and was named ProA Player of the Year (by eurobasket.com).
In the 2016-17, he stood out as Jena’s leading scorer, averaging 18.1 points a game in 25 Bundesliga contests, while pulling down 6.4 rebounds and dishing out 3.0 assists a game. In April 2017, he signed to finish the season with Spanish Liga ACB side Basket Zaragoza 2002. Featuring in six ACB contests until the end of the 2016-17 campaign, he scored 11.2 points a game, while pulling down 6.2 rebounds and handing out 2.2 assists per outing.
On July 10, 2017, Knight signed with Afyonkarahisar Belediyespor of the Turkish Basketball First League.