Kees Akerboom Sr. (born 18 April 1952) is a retired Dutch

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player. Akerboom is the father of

Kees Akerboom Jr. Kees Akerboom Jr. (born 20 December 1983) is a retired Dutch basketball player. Kees is the son of Kees Akerboom Sr., a former successful professional basketball player as well. During the majority of his career, Akerboom played with Den Bosch Ba ...

, who also played as a professional basketball player in the

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. He was a 2.04 m tall shooting guard.

Club career

Akerboom started playing basketball at age 16 and joined the

Flamingo's Haarlem Flamingo's Haarlem was a professional basketball team based in Haarlem, Netherlands. Flamingo's played in the Eredivisie from 1960 till 1983, excluding the 1961–62 season. The team won the Dutch championship and NBB Cup four times. The Flamingo's ...

under Jan Janbroers after two years. Akerboom played with

EBBC Den Bosch Heroes Den Bosch is a Dutch professional basketball club based in 's-Hertogenbosch. The club plays in the BNXT League since 2021 and in the top basketball division in the Netherlands since 1972. Founded as EBBC in 1951, the club had several sponso ...

, with whom he reached a

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in 1979.

Dutch national team

As a member of the senior

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, Akerboom led the

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in scoring, averaging 27 points per game. His performance earned him a selection to the

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. Akerboom is 2nd on the all-time list of games played for the senior Dutch national team, with 182 appearances. Only

Toon van Helfteren Anton J. J. "Toon" van Helfteren (born 20 February 1951) is a Dutch former basketball player and current coach of Feyenoord Basketball. Van Helfteren played in the Dutch Basketball League from 1971 till 1990. He was the coach of ZZ Leiden from 2 ...

, has played more games, with 207.

Awards and accomplishments

Club

;Flamingo's Haarlem *3×

: (1971, 1972, 1973) *2×

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: (1970, 1971) ;Den Bosch *5× Eredivisie: (1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985)

Individual

*3× Dutch League MVP: (1980, 1981, 1985) *7× All-Dutch League Team: (1974, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985) *5× Dutch League All-Star: (1975, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1982) *

FIBA EuroBasket Top Scorer The FIBA EuroBasket Top Scorer is the FIBA Europe honor that is bestowed upon the leading scorer of each FIBA EuroBasket tournament. Radivoj Korać and Nikos Galis hold the scoring king record, finishing as the EuroBasket's top scorer on four occ ...

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References

External links

FIBA.com profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Akerboom, Kees Sr. 1952 births Living people Dutch Basketball League players Dutch men's basketball players Heroes Den Bosch players Sportspeople from Haarlem Small forwards Shooting guards