Joe Thomasson

Joe Thomasson

Joe Thomasson playing for Gran Canaria
No. 32–Gran Canaria
Position	Shooting guard / Point guard
League	Liga ACB
Personal information
Born	(1993-08-16) August 16, 1993 (age 31) Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality	American / Georgian
Listed height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight	165 lb (75 kg)
Career information
High school	Thurgood Marshall (Dayton, Ohio)
College	State Fair CC (2012–2014) Wright State (2014–2016)
NBA draft	2016: undrafted
Playing career	2016–present
Career history
2016	Dinamo București
2017	Erie BayHawks
2017–2018	Polpharma Starogard Gdański
2018	Burevestnik Yaroslavl
2018–2019	Start Lublin
2019–2020	Stelmet Zielona Góra
2020–2021	Hapoel Gilboa Galil
2021–2022	Baxi Manresa
2022	Zenit Saint Petersburg
2023	Promitheas Patras
2023–2024	Covirán Granada
2024	Maccabi Tel Aviv napuseni od kurca
2024–present	Gran Canaria
Career highlights and awards
Israeli League champion (2024) Polish League champion (2020) All-Champions League Second Team (2022) All-Spanish League Second Team (2022) Horizon League All-Defensive Team (2016)

Joe Thomasson (born August 16, 1993) is an American-Georgian professional basketball player for Gran Canaria of the Spanish Liga ACB. He played college basketball for State Fair Community College and Wright State.

Early and personal life

Thomasson was born in Dayton, Ohio. ^[1] His parents are Joseph E Thomasson Sr and Autumn Daye Bryant. ^[2] He is 6' 4" (193 cm) tall, and weighs 165 pounds (75 kg). ^[1]

Thomasson attended and played basketball at Thurgood Marshall High School. ^{[1] [3]} In his senior year, he was the team captain and averaged 16 points per game, and was named All-Region. ^[2]

College career

Thomasson attended State Fair Community College between 2012 and 2014. ^{[4] [5]} He averaged 14.2 points per game as a freshman, and was named Region 16 First Team. ^[4] As a sophomore, he averaged 18 points, six assists, and four rebounds a game, and was named a Junior College All American. ^[4]

After two years, Thomasson moved to Wright State University. ^[1] In 2014–15, he was second in the Horizon League with a .576 two-point field goal shooting percentage, and ninth in blocks, with 25. ^[6] In 2015-16, he was fifth in the league with a .819 free throw percentage, sixth in the league in defensive rebounds, with 167, and seventh in assists, with 117. ^[6] He was named to the Horizon League All-Defensive Team as a senior. ^[7]

Professional career

Thomasson began his professional career with a four-game stint to start the 2016–17 season with Dinamo București in Romania. ^[1] In March 2017, he joined the Erie BayHawks of the NBA D-League. ^[1]

For the 2017–18 season, Thomasson joined Polpharma Starogard Gdański in Poland. ^[1]

Thomasson began the 2018–19 season with a six-game stint with BK Burevestnik Yaroslav in Russia. He then joined Start Lublin in Poland in November 2018 for the rest of the season. ^[1]

On August 5, 2019, Thomasson signed with Stelmet Zielona Góra in Poland. ^[8]

In May 2020, Thomasson joined Hapoel Gilboa Galil of the Israel Basketball Premier League. ^{[9] [7] [10]} He played for them between June 22 and July 26, ^[1] and then re-joined the team for the 2020–21 season. ^[11]

On July 7, 2021, Thomasson signed with Baxi Manresa of the Liga ACB. ^[12]

On July 11, 2022, Thomasson signed with Russian powerhouse Zenit Saint Petersburg of the VTB United League. ^[13] He deleted his Twitter account after other Twitter users criticized him for signing with a Russian team, in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine. ^[14] He left the team in late December 2022. ^[1]

In January 2023, Thomasson joined Greek club Promitheas Patras for the rest of the season. In 14 domestic league matches, he averaged 12.6 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.3 steals, playing around 27 minutes per contest. ^[1] In May 2023, he joined Spanish club CB Granada for the rest of the season. ^[1]

Thomasson re-joined Granada for the 2023–24 season but left the team in February 2024 to play out the season with Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel. ^[1]

On August 9, 2024, he signed with Gran Canaria of the Spanish Liga ACB. ^[15]

National team career

Thomasson is a member of the senior Georgian national team. He played with Georgia at the 2024 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Latvia and at the 2025 FIBA EuroBasket Qualifiers. ^[16]

Career statistics

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	PIR	Performance Index Rating
Bold	Career high

EuroLeague

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	PIR
2023–24	Maccabi Tel Aviv	4	0	6.8	.100	.000	1.000	1.5	1.3	.8	.5	1.0	1.8
Career		4	0	6.8	.100	.000	1.000	1.5	1.3	.8	.5	1.0	1.8

EuroCup

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	PIR
2022–23	Promitheas Patras	10	1	27.2	.472	.409	.875	2.7	2.6	1.5	.3	14.1	13.1
Career		10	1	27.2	.472	.409	.875	2.7	2.6	1.5	.3	14.1	13.1

Basketball Champions League

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2021–22	Manresa	15	14	27.0	.461	.413	.903	3.2	3.7	1.1	.2	12.9
Career		15	14	27.0	.461	.413	.903	3.2	3.7	1.1	.2	12.9

Domestic leagues

Year	Team	League	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2016–17	Dinamo București	LNBM	4	33.2	.395	.200	.933	3.2	5.7	1.2	.2	11.5
2016–17	Erie BayHawks	D-League	3	21.8	.571	.600	—	3.3	2.7	.7	.7	6.3
2017–18	Starogard Gdański	PLK	25	30.7	.429	.300	.927	4.1	4.9	1.3	.1	13.3
2018–19	Start Lublin	PLK	21	32.3	.498	.405	.814	3.7	5.2	1.7	.3	19.3
2019–20	Zielona Góra	PLK	22	25.0	.553	.354	.744	2.6	4.3	1.3	.5	9.3
2019–20	Zielona Góra	VTBUL	19	25.9	.509	.434	.857	2.6	3.4	.6	.3	12.3
2019–20	Hapoel Gilboa Galil	Ligat HaAl	12	31.3	.475	.391	.907	2.7	3.2	.8	.6	15.7
2020–21	Hapoel Gilboa Galil	Ligat HaAl	33	30.2	.454	.380	.821	3.1	4.5	.9	.4	13.4
2020–21	Hapoel Gilboa Galil	BIBL	9	25.0	.440	.250	.667	3.2	3.4	.6	.1	9.7
2021–22	Manresa	ACB	35	26.5	.447	.385	.917	2.7	3.5	.6	.2	13.2
2022–23	Zenit	VTBUL	14	15.8	.438	.435	.833	1.6	2.0	.4	.1	5.1
2022–23	Promitheas Patras	HEBA A1	14	26.8	.409	.293	.949	3.6	3.9	1.4	.1	12.6
2022–23	Granada	ACB	4	30.1	.469	.474	.833	2.0	3.0	1.7	—	15.0
2023–24	Granada	ACB	20	31.1	.472	.346	.870	3.4	3.4	1.0	.3	14.0
2023–24	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Ligat HaAl	20	18.5	.452	.429	.933	1.7	2.5	.9	.2	6.4

College

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2014–15	Wright State	28	23	31.1	.492	.305	.779	5.5	3.2	.9	.9	10.0
2015–16	Wright State	35	34	29.8	.427	.352	.819	5.3	3.3	.8	.5	9.6
Career		63	57	30.4	.455	.333	.801	5.4	3.3	.8	.7	9.8

References

1. "Joe Thomasson Basketball Player Profile, Hapoel Galil Gilboa, News, Winner League, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards". Eurobasket LLC.
2. "Joe Thomasson - Men's Basketball". Wright State University Athletics.
3. Harris, Doug (August 28, 2016). "Thomasson not your average Joe". Dayton Daily News.
4. Wright State University Men's Basketball Media Guide 2015-2016, November 13, 2015.
5. Archdeacon, Tom (October 31, 2014). "WSU's Thomasson feeling right at home". Dayton Daily News.
6. "Joe Thomasson College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com.
7. "Joe Thomasson Player Profile, Erie BayHawks, NCAA Stats, G League Stats, International Stats, Game Logs, Bests, Awards - RealGM". basketball.realgm.com.
8. Maggi, Alessandro (August 5, 2019). "Stelmet Enea BC Zielona Gora signs Joe Thomasson". Sportando. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
9. "ISRAEL BASKETBALL SUPER LEAGUE | 2019-20 Season | Hapoel Gilboa Galil | Joe Thomasson". basket.co.il.
10. ""I'm ready to embrace the new challenge of being a leader and helping my guys get better" Joe Thomasson leads Gilboa to WINNER Cup QF with 78-72 win over Bnei Herzliya!". September 23, 2020.
11. Skerletic, Dario (August 23, 2020). "Hapoel Galil Gilboa keeps Joe Thomasson". Sportando.
12. Skerletic, Dario (July 7, 2021). "Joe Thomasson joins Baxi Manresa on two-year deal". Sportando. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
13. "Joe Thomasson joines Zenit". en.bc-zenit.com. July 11, 2022. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
14. Abrams, Jonathan (September 20, 2022). "Despite War and Griner's Arrest, American Men Hoop in Russia". The New York Times– via NYTimes.com.
15. "Gran Canaria announces Joe Thomasson at guard". euroleaguebasketball.net. August 9, 2024. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
16. "Joe Thomasson". FIBA . Retrieved August 8, 2024.

External links

• Wright State Raiders bio
• Twitter page