Alphonso Ford
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Career & Clubs
NBA and CBA
Ford played five games in the 1994–95 NBA season for the Philadelphia 76ers, who selected him 32nd overall in the 1993 NBA draft. Before that, he had played six games for the Seattle SuperSonics, in 1993–94. During both the 1993–94 and 1994–95 NBA seasons, Ford played in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) for the Tri-City Chinook. He averaged 22.8 points per game in his rookie year with the Chinook and he was selected to the All-CBA First Team and named Rookie of the Year. Ford averaged 24.0 points per game during the 1994–95 season with the Chinook.
Europe
First steps towards European stardom
In the 1995–96 season, Ford signed with Spanish first division club Peñas Huesca. However, although he played great basketball and averaged 25.1 points per game in the Spanish League, he could not prevent the team's relegation. The next season was for Ford the opportunity to show his skills, in what was at the time Europe's most competitive national domestic league, the Greek Basket League. He spent the season with Papagou, and led the team to a ninth-place finish, while also being the Greek competition's leading scorer, with 23.9 points per contest. Nevertheless, glory at the European-wide level turned out to be a little bit more far away than the great scorer thought. Before the beginning of the 1997–98 season, he was diagnosed with leukemia, thus obliging Papagou to break his contract. The treatment cost Ford the whole season, but…
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- Mens Sana Basket
- Club
- CB Peñas Huesca
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- Papagou B.C.
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- Victoria Libertas Pesaro
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- Seattle SuperSonics
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- Peristeri B.C.
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- Olympiacos B.C.
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- Sporting Athens (men's basketball)
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- Philadelphia 76ers
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- Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils basketball (1989–1993)
- League
- NCAA Division I men's basketball
- League
- National Basketball Association
Clubs
- CB Peñas Huescacurrent
- Mens Sana Basketcurrent
- Olympiacos B.C.current
- Papagou B.C.current
- Peristeri B.C.current
- Philadelphia 76erscurrent
- Seattle SuperSonicscurrent
- Sporting Athens (men's basketball)current
- Victoria Libertas Pesarocurrent
- Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils basketball1989–1993
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Identifiers & aliases
Alphonso Gene Ford was an American professional basketball player. A 1.92 m tall, 98 kg (216 lbs.) shooting guard, he was one of the greatest scorers in college basketball history. After a short stint in the NBA, he played professionally in Europe.
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