Damon Johnson (basketball)

Damon Johnson
	Damon Johnson with Keflavík in 2015.
Personal information
Born	March 1, 1974 (age 50)
Nationality	American / Icelandic
Listed height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Career information
High school	Science Hill; (Johnson City, Tennessee)
College	Hiwassee (1992–1993); Tennessee (1993–1996);
NBA draft	1996: undrafted
Playing career	1996–2015
Position	Small forward
Career history
As player:
1996–1997	Keflavík
1997–1998	ÍA
1998–1999	Keflavík
1999–2000	Los Barrios Cadiz
2001–2003	Keflavík
2003–2004	Caceres
2004	Polaris World Murcia
2004–2005	CSF Sevilla
2005	Lagun Aro Bilbao Basket
2005–2006	Plus Pujol Lleida
2006–2007	C.B. Hospitalet
2007	Ciudad de Huelva
2007–2008	Alerta Cantabria
2008–2009	Smoky Mountain Jam
2013	Keflavík-b
2014–2015	Keflavík
As coach:
2010–2012	King University (assistant)
2012–2013	East Tennessee State (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
	2x Úrvalsdeild Foreign Player of the year (1999, 2002); Úrvalsdeild Domestic All-First team (2003); 3x Icelandic champion (1997, 1999, 2003); 2x Icelandic Cup champion (1997, 2003); Spanish LEB All-Star Game (2000); Icelandic All-Star Game MVP (2002);
Men's basketball
Representing Iceland
Games of the Small States of Europe

Damon S. Johnson (born March 1, 1974) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild and the Spanish Liga ACB.^[1] He won the Icelandic national championship three times and was voted the Úrvalsdeild foreign player of the year twice.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] A naturalized Icelandic citizen, he played with the Iceland national basketball team in 2003.

Icelandic national team[edit]

Johnson played five games for the Iceland national basketball team^[6] during the 2003 Games of the Small States of Europe, where he averaged 17.3 points per game, helping Iceland finishing second.^[7]

Johnson was an assistant coach for King University from 2010 to 2012 and later for East Tennessee State women's basketball team. In 2019 he was hired as the head coach of Providence Academy í Johnson City.^[8]

2x Úrvalsdeild Foreign Player of the year (1999, 2002)
Úrvalsdeild Domestic All-First team (2003)
3x Icelandic champion (1997, 1999, 2003)
2x Icelandic Cup champion (1997, 2003)
3x Icelandic Company Cup champion (1996, 1998, 2002)

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^ Viðurkenningar - Besti erlendi leikmaður úrvalsdeildar karla
^ "Mikil blessun fyrir mig að fá þetta tækifæri". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). August 13, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
^ Jónsson, Óskar Ófeigur (March 11, 2015). "41 árs en samt gríðarlega mikilvægur fyrir Keflavíkurliðið". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved August 24, 2017.
^ "Damon Johnson fyrr og nú". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). March 31, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
^ A-landslið karla
^ Sigurður Elvar Þórólfsson (June 6, 2003). "Á eftir að læra þjóðsönginn". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved August 31, 2018.
^ Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (March 26, 2019). "Damon Johnson orðinn aðalþjálfari". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved March 26, 2019.