Jonathan Lewis Wallace (born May 16, 1986) is an American professional

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player who last played for the

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of the

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. The 6'2" guard from

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played college basketball for

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where he was the school's all-time three-point shooting leader in both percentage (43.4 percent) and field goals made (240). He was a government major and was accepted to the

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High school career

Wallace attended

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, where he averaged 16.5 points, 4.1 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game. Wallace also played golf and captained the football team as starting quarterback. In addition, he was second-team All-State, Huntsville All-Metro Team, North Alabama Regional Team, and

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State Finalist. Off the playing field, he was student government president, a

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member, and a

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volunteer. Wallace also served as a member of Sparkman High School's We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution team in 2004 when it earned fourth place in the national competition.

Collegiate career

Wallace was originally recruited by Georgetown Head Coach

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when he was still coaching at

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. In his freshman year, he averaged 6.5 points, 2.2 assists, 2.1 rebounds, and 1.2 steals during 30.4 minutes. In his sophomore year, Wallace improved to 8.6 points, 3.2 assists, 2.3 rebounds, and 1.0 steals during 31.1 minutes. In his junior year, Wallace was the starting point guard and led the team, along with highly touted juniors

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and Jeff Green, to the Final Four of the NCAA tournament, before losing to

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. Wallace finished the season averaging 11.4 points, 3.1 assists, 2.7 rebounds, and .8 steals during 32.2 minutes, and shot an exceptional 49% from three-point range. He gained national attention in an Elite Eight matchup with UNC after hitting a three-pointer with 31 seconds left to tie the game. The Hoyas went on to win the game in overtime. Wallace, whom Roy Hibbert nicknamed "Little Buddy", was on the 2007 pre-season All-Big East first team. As a senior in 2007–08, he averaged 10.7 points and 2.6 assists in 34 games.

Professional career

After going undrafted in the

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, Wallace joined the

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for the 2008

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. He later signed with

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′s

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for the 2008–09 season. However, he left the club in November 2008 and signed with

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in February 2009 for the rest of the season. In November 2009, the

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selected Wallace in the second round of the 2009 NBA Developmental League (D-League) draft. In July 2010, he joined the NBA D-League Select Team for the 2010 NBA Summer League. Wallace later signed with

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of Germany, where he spent two seasons. On July 28, 2012, he signed with

Belfius Mons-Hainaut Union Mons-Hainaut is a Belgian professional basketball club that is based in Mons, Wallonia. The club competes in the highest division of the country, the BNXT League. The club's home arena is the Mons Arena. Founded as Quaregnon in 1959, the c ...

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for the 2012–13 season. On July 8, 2013, he signed a one-year deal with the

in Germany. On May 23, 2014, he signed a one-year contract extension with Tübingen. On June 30, 2015, Wallace joined the

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for the

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. From 2015 to 2016, he played for Recreativo do Libolo of

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. In August 2016, Georgetown University announced that it had hired Wallace to return to the school's basketball program as a special assistant to coach

References

External links

Georgetown bio

Euroleague.net profile
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Jonathan 1986 births Living people American expatriate basketball people in Belgium American expatriate basketball people in Germany American expatriate basketball people in Slovenia American men's basketball players C.R.D. Libolo basketball players FC Bayern Munich basketball players Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball players KK Olimpija players Rio Grande Valley Vipers players Basketball players from Huntsville, Alabama Tigers Tübingen players Point guards