Jonathan Moore (born November 3, 1957) is an American former basketball player who is best known for his collegiate career at
Furman University
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between 1976 and
1980
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A native of
Charleston, South Carolina
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, Moore finished his career as one of the greatest players in
Southern Conference
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history.
During his four-year tenure at Furman, Moore averaged 16.9 points per game, became one of only three players in conference history to be named First Team All-SoCon four times, was a two-time
SoCon Basketball tournament MVP and was twice named the
Southern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
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NCAA
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Division I men's basketball players to achieve both of those milestones.[
After his collegiate career ended, Moore was selected in the third round (64th overall) in the ]1980 NBA Draft
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by the Detroit Pistons
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.[ However, he never played a game in the league. Moore spent the first season out of college in ]Italy
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playing for Nuova Pallacanestro Vigevano with another Furman alumnus, Clyde Mayes
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.NBA
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-ready by playing a year of professional basketball abroad and then try to make the Pistons' roster for the season, but ultimately it never worked out. Moore played 14 seasons in Finland's Korisliiga
The Korisliiga is the top-tier professional basketball league in Finland, comprising the top 12 teams of the country. In its current format, each team plays all other teams two times in the regular season, once at home and once away, for a total o ...
from 1983 to 1998, and holds also a Finnish citizenship.
See also
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References
External links
Finnish League profile
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1957 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Finland
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from South Carolina
Detroit Pistons draft picks
Finnish people of African-American descent
Finnish people of American descent
Furman Paladins men's basketball players
Power forwards (basketball)
Sportspeople from Charleston, South Carolina
Naturalized citizens of Finland