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Niners Chemnitz | |||||||||||||||
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Position | Shooting guard | ||||||||||||||
League | Basketball Bundesliga EuroCup | ||||||||||||||
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Born | Uccle, Belgium | June 18, 1998||||||||||||||
Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||
Listed height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 95 kg (209 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Playing career | 2015–present | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
2015–2016 | SIG Strasbourg | ||||||||||||||
2016–2019 | Mega Basket | ||||||||||||||
2019 | →OKK Beograd | ||||||||||||||
2019; 2020–2021 | Löwen Braunschweig | ||||||||||||||
2021–2024 | Mitteldeutscher BC | ||||||||||||||
2024–2025 | BG Göttingen | ||||||||||||||
2025–present | Niners Chemnitz | ||||||||||||||
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Kostja Kalonda Didier Mushidi (born June 18, 1998) is a German professional basketball player for Niners Chemnitz of the Basketball Bundesliga and the EuroCup.
Born in Belgium to a Belgian-Congolese mother and a Russian father, Mushidi moved to Germany with his family at the age of 2. [1] [2] Mushidi stands 1.94 m (6 ft 4+1⁄2 in) tall and plays the shooting guard position. [3]
A product of ART Düsseldorf, Mushidi later transferred to the Dragons Rhöndorf, where he played in the youth system and strengthened Team Rhöndorf/Bonn's JBBL (under-16 Bundesliga) side starting with the 2012-13 season. After moving to the organization's under 19 side, Mushidi averaged 20.2 points, 7.2 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.6 steals per game in the 2014-15 season. [4] He had made his first appearances on Rhoendorf's men's team in Germany's third division during the 2013-14 campaign.
In August 2015, Mushidi inked a two-year deal with French powerhouse Strasbourg IG. [5] He played a total of six minutes for SIG's men's team in the 2015–16 LNB Pro A season, [6] while mostly representing the club's development squad. He left the club after one year and signed with Serbian club Mega Leks in June 2016. [7]
At the 2017 Nike Hoop Summit, he led the World Select Team with 14 points to go along with three assists, three steals and two rebounds. [8] In February 2019, he left Mega Bemax to join OKK Beograd, [9] where he left for the remainder of the 2018-19 season.
In June 2019, he signed with Basketball Löwen Braunschweig of the German Basketball Bundesliga. [10] On December 13, 2019, he was dismissed for disciplinary reasons, the team announced without disclosing any further details. [11] In eight Bundesliga appearances for the Braunschweig team, Mushidi averaged 11.6 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.6 assists per contest. [12] Mushidi was given a second chance by the Braunschweig outfit, joining the club back in August 2020. [13]
On December 1, 2021, he has signed with Mitteldeutscher BC of the Basketball Bundesliga. [14] In his first season with the club he was able to average 11.6 points and 2.0 rebounds per game across 25 contests.
Mushidi inked a deal with fellow Bundesliga side BG Göttingen in early October 2024. [15]
On June 3, 2025, he signed with Niners Chemnitz of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). [16]
On the international stage, Mushidi represented Germany at the 2014 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, scoring a team-high 17.7 points per game during the tournament, [17] while garnering Eurobasket.com All-European Championships U16 Second Team recognition. [18] The following year, he helped Germany to an eighth-place finish at the Europe U18 Championship, leading the team in scoring along with Isaiah Hartenstein as both averaged 11.6 points a contest. [19]
Mushidi led the German U18 national team to its first ever Albert-Schweitzer-Tournament title in March/April 2016, posting 25 points and 11 rebounds in the championship game against Serbia, [20] and was named tournament MVP. [21] In July 2016, he attended the U20 European championships, averaging 8.4 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.1 assists a game throughout the tournament, while finishing in fourth place with the German team. [22] He tallied team-bests 14.7 points and 3.8 assists along with 3.8 rebounds and 1.3 steals a contest on the way to a fourth-place finish at the 2016 U18 European Championships in Turkey. [23]
He was Germany's co-leading scorer at the 2018 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, where he averaged 13.6 points a game, [24] helping his team win the bronze medal, [25] while being named to the All-Star Five. [26] In November 2018, he was named to the roster of the German men's national team for the first time. [27]