Stefano Tonut
Stefano Tonut (born November 7, 1993) is an Italian professional basketball player for Reyer Venezia of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). Standing at 1.92 m (6 ft. 4 in.), he plays at the shooting guard and point guard positions.
Tonut with Reyer Venezia in 2017 | ||||||||||||||
No. 7 – Reyer Venezia Mestre | ||||||||||||||
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Position | Point guard / Shooting guard | |||||||||||||
League | LBA | |||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
Born | Cantù, Italy | November 7, 1993|||||||||||||
Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||
Listed height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||
Listed weight | 100 kg (220 lb) | |||||||||||||
Career information | ||||||||||||||
NBA draft | 2015 / Undrafted | |||||||||||||
Playing career | 2010–present | |||||||||||||
Career history | ||||||||||||||
2010–2011 | Monfalcone | |||||||||||||
2012–2015 | Trieste | |||||||||||||
2015–present | Reyer Venezia | |||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | ||||||||||||||
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Professional career
Tonut came through the youth ranks of Monfalcone and Pallacanestro Trieste, before transferring again to Monfalcone, where he made his debut for the club’s men’s team in the amateur Italian third division during the 2010–11 campaign.
Tonut later returned to Pallacanestro Trieste where he played for the first time in the Serie A2 during the 2012-13 season. During the next two seasons he was ranked as the fourth best scorer in the league and the best Italian player of Serie A2 with averaging 19.2 points per game.
Tonut then joined Reyer Venezia of the professional Italian top-flight level league LBA in July 2015. In his first season with the team, he saw the court in 34 games in the LBA, scoring 2.8 points per outing. In the 2015–16 season, he marked his debut on the European club stage, participating in the European second tier EuroCup competition with Venezia.
International career
Tonut made his debut with the under-20 Italian national basketball team during FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship on July 9, 2013, scoring 10 points with 2 steals in the winning game against Lithuania Under-20 Team.[1]
In 2015 he officially entered into the Italian senior national basketball team.
References
- "Stefano Tonut". fibaeurope.it. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
External links
- Stefano Tonut at fiba.com
- Stefano Tonut at eurocupbasketball.com
- Stefano Tonut at fibaeurope.com
- Stefano Tonut at eurobasket.com
- Stefano Tonut at legabasket.it (in Italian)