Danero Axel Thomas (born 8 April 1986) is an American and Icelandic

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player who currently plays for Breiðablik in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild karla. A naturalized Icelandic citizen, he debuted with the Icelandic national basketball team in 2018.

College

Thomas played

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for

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from 2006 to 2010. On March 19, 2010, he scored a 15-foot fadeaway shot at the buzzer, giving 13th-seeded Murray State a 66-65 victory over fourth-seeded Vanderbilt in the first round of the

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Playing career

Thomas joined KR prior to the 2012–2013 Úrvalsdeild karla season but was released from his contract in November that year. In 7 regular season games, he averaged 11.1 points and 5 rebounds. Thomas joined

Þór Akureyri Íþróttafélagið Þór, commonly known as Þór Akureyri, simply Þór or Thór, is a multi-sport club in Akureyri, Iceland. It features departments in Basketball, football, Handball and Taekwondo. Its main rivals is another sport club from A ...

in 2015 and helped them win the 1. deild karla in 2016 and gain promotion to Úrvalsdeild karla. He left the club in January 2017, after averaging 16.6 points, 7.1 rebounds and 3.1 in thirteen games, and joined ÍR. On March 25, 2018, Thomas scored the game winning and series clinching basket in game five of ÍR's first round playoffs series against

Stjarnan Ungmennafélagið Stjarnan, commonly known as Stjarnan, is an Icelandic multi-sports club specialising in handball, football, basketball, volleyball and gymnastics located in Garðabær.and in the top 10 in the World and they have won the League ...

. On May 8, 2018, Thomas signed with Tindastóll. On 30 September, he won the Icelandic Super Cup after Tindastóll beat KR, 103-72. During the regular season, Thomas averaged 13.2 points and 5.9 rebounds and played all 22 games. In the playoffs, he averaged 14.4 points and 7.4 rebounds but was unable to prevent the team from a heartbreaking loss against

Þór Þorlákshöfn Ungmennafélagið Þór, commonly known as Þór Þorlákshöfn, is a multi-sport club in Þorlákshöfn, Iceland. It has active departments in athletics, badminton, basketball, motorcycle sports and track & field but has also featured various othe ...

in the first round of the playoffs. In September 2019, Thomas signed with

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where he had previously played during the 2013–2014 season. As he aspired to play for a bigger club, the contract included an escape clause that allowed him to leave the club with short notice. Two months later, in November, Thomas left Hamar and signed ÍR. At the time of his departure, he was averaging 17.2 points and 6.0 rebounds for the unbeaten Hamar. In June 2021, Thomas signed with newly promoted Breiðablik. In April 2022, Thomas resigned with Breiðablik.

National team career

Thomas received an Icelandic citizenship in July 2018. On 23 August 2018, Thomas was selected to the 24-man training camp of the Icelandic national basketball team prior to its upcoming games in the

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. On 1 September 2018, he was selected to the team for its upcoming games against

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. He played his first game for Iceland on 2 September, scoring 8 points in a 71-69 victory against Norway.

Personal life

Thomas is married to Fanney Lind Thomas, an Icelandic former professional basketball player and a former member of Icelandic national basketball team. After receiving his Icelandic citizenship in 2018, he took up the Icelandic middle name ''Axel''.

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National team career

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