Edon Maxhuni
No. 21 – SIG Strasbourg | |
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Position | Point guard |
League | LNB Pro A |
Personal information | |
Born | Hyvinkää, Finland | 21 May 1998
Nationality | Finnish / Kosovan |
Listed height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
Career information | |
High school | Helsinki Basketball Academy (Helsinki, Finland) |
College | Long Beach State (2017–2019) |
Playing career | 2014–present |
Career history | |
2014–2017 | HBA-Märsky |
2019–2020 | CB Gran Canaria Claret SAD |
2020–2021 | Pärnu Sadam |
2021–2022 | Heroes Den Bosch |
2022–2023 | Crailsheim Merlins |
2023–2024 | ESSM Le Portel |
2024–present | SIG Strasbourg |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Edon Maxhuni (born May 21, 1998) is a Finnish professional basketball player who plays as a point guard for SIG Strasbourg of the LNB Pro A.[1] He is also part of the Finland national team
Youth career
[edit]Maxhuni started playing basketball in a youth team of his hometown club Hyvinkään Ponteva before joining Helsingin NMKY in 2012. Later he was trained at the Helsinki Basketball Academy of the Finnish Basketball Association, and played in the second-tier Koripallon I-divisioona with the academy team HBA-Märsky. At the end of the 2016–17 season, Maxhuni was named the MVP of the Finnish second-tier league.
College career
[edit]He left Finland in 2017,[2] to study and play basketball at Long Beach State University in California, United States. Until 2019, the point guard played a total of 67 games for the college team, averaging 6.7 points per game.[3]
Professional career
[edit]CB Canaria Claret SAD
[edit]In the 2019/20 season, he was under contract with the Spanish third-division LEB Plata team CB Gran Canaria Claret SAD, playing in 24 league games and averaging 13.3 points per game.[4]
Pärnu Sadam
[edit]Maxhuni signed with Estonian club Pärnu Sadam for the 2020–21 season where he became the Estonian vice-champion.[2] In 2021, he was also named in the All-KML Team in Estonian Korvpalli Meistriliiga.
Heroes Den Bosch
[edit]In the 2021–21 season, Maxhuni played for the Heroes Den Bosch in the BNXT League and the FIBA Europe Cup, and in 2022, as the team's top scorer, won the Dutch championship title.[5]
Crailsheim Merlins
[edit]In September 2022, Maxhuni accepted an offer from Crailsheim Merlins of the Basketball Bundesliga and the FIBA Europe Cup.[6] During the season, he averaged 11.8 points and 3.9 assists per game.
Le Portel
[edit]On 8 October 2023, Maxhuni signed with ESSM Le Portel of the French LNB Pro A on a short contract as an injury replacement, with an option to extend.[7] Since his arrival, Le Portel managed to change their trajectory and won seven out of ten games played, after having started the season with five losses and only one win. On 22 December 2023, his contract was extended for the rest of the ongoing 2023–24 season.[8] At the end of the season, Maxhuni helped Le Portel to qualify for the LNB Elite Playoffs, for the first time since 2017.[9] He finished his first season in French league averaging 10.9 points and 3.7 assists per game.
SIG Strasbourg
[edit]On 18 July 2024, Maxhuni signed with fellow French team SIG Strasbourg on a two-year deal.[10][11][12]
National team
[edit]Maxhuni received an offer to play for the Kosovo national basketball team but declined,[13] since he was a Finnish youth national player at the time. He participated in events such as the 2014 FIBA U16 EuroBasket and the FIBA U18 EuroBasket in 2015 and 2016.[1]
Since 2020, Maxhuni has been part of the Finland national basketball team. During the EuroBasket 2022, he averaged 8.9 points per game in seven tournament matches.[14] Maxhuni was named in the Finland squad in the 2023 FIBA World Cup, averaging 7.2 points and 3.8 assists per game in five matches.[15][16] Maxhuni played also in the 2024 FIBA Olympic qualifying tournament,[17] averaging 12.7 points and 4.7 assists in three games against Bahamas, Poland and Spain. As of 7 July 2024, Maxhuni has played 53 official games with the senior national team.[18]
Personal life
[edit]Maxhuni's parents are ethnic Albanians from Mitrovica, Kosovo, who moved to Finland in 1992.[13] His father, Besim Maxhuni, played basketball for Trepça and Prishtina,[19] and later became a coach.[20] He is currently the coach of Raiders Basket in the Koripallon I-divisioona in Finnish second-tier.[20]
Career statistics
[edit]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 | Bold | Career high |
College
[edit]Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2017–18 | Long Beach State | 33 | 15 | 17.3 | .385 | .386 | .939 | 1.7 | 1.0 | .4 | – | 6.2 |
2018–19 | Long Beach State | 34 | 10 | 17.0 | .386 | .408 | .875 | .9 | 1.1 | .2 | – | 7.2 |
Career | 67 | 25 | 17.1 | .386 | .399 | .904 | 1.3 | 1.0 | .3 | – | 6.7 |
National team
[edit]Team | Tournament | Pos. | GP | PPG | RPG | APG |
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Finland | EuroBasket 2022 | 7th | 7 |
8.9 |
1.9 |
3.9
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2023 FIBA World Cup | 21st | 5 |
7.2 |
0.8 |
3.8
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "Edon Maxhuni profile, FIBA U20 European Championship 2017". FIBA.COM. 2017-07-23. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ a b "Pelaaja". Basket.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "Edon Maxhuni - Men's Basketball". Long Beach State University Athletics. 2018-07-01. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "Competiciones FEB". competiciones.feb.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "Heroes Den Bosch basketball, News, Roster, Rumors, Stats, Awards, Transactions, Details-eurobasket". Eurobasket LLC. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "Point Guard Edon Maxhuni komplettiert HAKRO Merlins-Kader – Vertrag mit Prince Ali aufgelöst". HAKRO Merlins Crailsheim (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ Edon Maxhunin ura jatkuu Ranskan liigassa, 8 October 2023, basket.fi
- ^ Edon Maxhuni jatkaa loppukauden Ranskan liigassa, Yle, 22 December 2023
- ^ Hyvinkään kasvatti Edon Maxhuni johdatti tehopisteillään joukkueensa Ranskan korisliigan pudotuspeleihin, Aamuposti, 29 April 2024
- ^ L’INTERNATIONAL EDON MAXHUNI REJOINT LE PROJET, sigstrasbourg.fr, 18 July 2024
- ^ Edon Maxhuni kaksivuotisella sopimuksella SIG Strasbourgiin, basket.fi, 18 July 2024
- ^ Susijengistä tuttu Edon Maxhuni Strasbourgiin, Yle, 18 July 2024
- ^ a b "Kosovo roots, but a Finnish jersey on his back, Maxhuni faces emotional summer". FIBA.basketball. 2016-12-18. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "Edon MAXHUNI at the FIBA EuroBasket 2022". FIBA.basketball. 1998-03-21. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ E. Maxhuni, FIBA
- ^ "Finland at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 European Qualifiers". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ Susijengin pelaajatusina olympiakarsintoihin on vahvistettu, basket.fi, 30 June 2024
- ^ Edon Maxhuni 50. maaottelussaan: ”Tarkoitus on pelata vielä ainakin sata maaottelua”, Aamuposti, 29 June 2024
- ^ "Besim Maxhuni flet për Asistin". asistionline.com (in Albanian). Retrieved 2023-09-09.
- ^ a b boldUnderline. llc. "Besim Maxhuni në krye të Raiders Basket". TopSporti.com (in Albanian). Retrieved 2023-08-29.
External links
[edit]- Profile at eurobasket.com
- Profile at Basketball Finland
- 1998 births
- Living people
- 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
- Basketball players from Mitrovica, Kosovo
- Crailsheim Merlins players
- ESSM Le Portel players
- SIG Strasbourg players
- Finnish expatriate basketball people in Estonia
- Finnish expatriate basketball people in France
- Finnish expatriate basketball people in Germany
- Finnish expatriate basketball people in Spain
- Finnish expatriate basketball people in the United States
- Finnish expatriate basketball people in the Netherlands
- Finnish men's basketball players
- Finnish people of Albanian descent
- Finnish people of Kosovan descent
- HBA-Märsky players
- Heroes Den Bosch players
- KK Pärnu players
- Long Beach State Beach men's basketball players
- Sportspeople from Hyvinkää