JWSport Jacek Waszak – Sport journalist
I have to mention first of all that Maciej Lampe when he was 5 years old, his parents decided to move to Sweden. When he was 9 years old he started playing basketball in “Polisen IF” club. In 2000 PZKosz convinced him to play for Poland. During cadet national team tournament in Portugal he aroused interest of Real Madrid scouts. In January 2002 he became the youngest basketball player in history of Real Madrid when he debuted in Euroleague, he was 16 years and 360 days old. Two years later he became the youngest player in Phoenix Suns history (18 years and 353 days).
In 2003 he was selected in the second round of the draft with number 30 by the New York Knicks. From 2003 to 2006 he played for the clubs: Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Hornets and Houston Rockets. In one of the NBA games, while playing for the Phoenix Suns, he scored 17 points against the Milwaukee Bucks, which is his best performance in the overseas competition so far. In total in NBA he scored 215 points and grabbed 142 rebounds.
From 2006 to 2009 he played for the Russian club Chimki Moscow. At the beginning of the 2009/2010 season he moved to Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv, also playing in Euroleague. During the opening game against Olimpija Ljubljana he made history by scoring his first points in the 2009/2010 Euroleague season. On January 7, 2010 he returned to the Russian league, joining Uniks Kazan.
In 2006 he refused to play for the Polish National Team led by Andrej Urlep and preparing for the European Championship eliminations. In 2007 he showed up on the first training camp in Wloclawek and NBA summer league tournament, only to miss the next training camp and once again refused to play for Poland. In 2009 he returned to the national team, appearing in a friendly game against Croatia during preparations for the European Basketball Championship in September.
On 3 August 2013 he signed a contract with the basketball team FC Barcelona. He is the second Polish sportsman (after handball player Bogdan Wenta), who signed a contract with the professional section of FC Barcelona. After two years playing for Barcelona, he moved to Turkey’s Beşiktaş JK
In July 2016, he signed with Chinese team Shenzhen Leopards. On November 24, 2017, he joined Qingdao Eagles. He played 4 games with the team, scoring 24.3 points, 13.8 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 interceptions and 1.3 blocks. On August 17, 2018, he became a player of Jilin Northeast Tigers. He played 45 games for the team, recording 24.4 points, 13.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game. On April 15, 2019, he signed a contract with Al-Manama team, which plays in the Bahrain league. On July 29, he joined China’s Sichuan Blue Whales.
On 14 July 2020, he signed for the second time in his career with the Al-Manama team, performing in the Bahrain league. On December 31 he became a player of King Szczecin.
Maciej Lampe as 17 years old made his debut in Real Madrid and in 2003 he was selected in NBA draft with number 30 by New York Knicks. His first game in the best league in the world, however, he played for Phoenix Suns, later he played for New Orleans Hornets and Houston Rockets. When he returned to Europe he played in clubs from Russia, Israel, Turkey, and the longest in Spain. With FC Barcelona, he won that country’s championship in 2014.
As of 2016, Lampe was a member of the Chinese teams Shenzhen Leopards, Quingdao Eagles, Jilin Northeast Tigers and Sichuan Blue Whales. His last club was Al-Manama of Bahrain.
Now in 2021, he signed his first ever contract in the Polish PLK League ( Energa Basket League ) with the club Kinga Szczecin. On the first training Kinga will appear on Tuesday, January 5 .
“Maciej is an excellent player, now he’s coming back after long break, so I think it’s perfect place for him. We will have an advantage of him, he will rebuild, so both sides will be happy. The interview for Polsat Sport was conducted by the assistant coach Maciej Majcherek
As a professional basketball referee from EBL, BE, BUCS,NBL,WNBL in Great Britain I was invited by Maciej Lampe to his international tournament “Lampe Challenge” in Sweden. I came to the first such tournament in 2015 and to this day I’m still a referee there in Stockholm. Lampe started his debut with the first game against Anwil Woclawek. Kinga Szczecin won the away game against Anwil Wloclawek (78:75). It was very close game and we saw fierce battle between both teams and successful debut of Maciej Lampe who scored 15 points in Energa Basket League.
Anwil Wlocławek started with a lead which they kept almost to the end of the first quarter. Young Wojciech Tomaszewski got his chance in the first quarter.
In the second quarter Szczecin’s lead was even 12 points after Tookie Brown and Cleveland Melvin’s free throws. Ivan Almeida and Artur Mielczarek tried to respond but it was not enough for Jesús Ramirez team. Lampe was scoring mainly 7 points including once three pointer. In the second inning Lampe was active again. Włocławek players were missing a lot of shots from unprepared positions and Shawn Jones got injured. First half of the game ended with the score 48:38.
In the third quarter visitors controlled the game. Again Lampe and Zębski made great plays to give guests 14 points advantage. Melvin made it 63:43. Coach Przemyslaw Frasunkiewicz was trying to rotate the roster and look for the right setting. Rotnei Clarke was hitting important threes and Anwil managed to reduce the deficit. After 30 minutes it was 71:58. Clarke and Zamojski were keeping score on Anwil side. Good minutes by Sulima who showed that he feels better playing closer to the basket.
Last quarter started from 58-71 ratio. Based on the score so far it seemed unlikely that Anwil would be able to overcome the deficit especially when Shawn Jones was out of the lineup and Ivan Almeida was playing mediocre basketball. However, Rottweilers showed their character and started chasing the Wolves. Clarke was hitting threes and Sulima was fighting bravely under the basket. Four minutes before the end of the game Zubr’s points cut the Wolves lead to four points (69-73). With less than 24 seconds left after Almeida free throws it was 75-77. Visitors could play till the end and Anwil decided to try to intercept the ball, but it was impossible so with 4 seconds left Almeida decided to foul Melvin. Melvin made only one free throw. Hosts had a chance to go to overtime but Clarke missed the most important shot. Finally Sea Wolves won by two points 78:75.
“I had my last contract in Bahrain, where I played the whole season. After that I decided to rest because my body was tired. I underwent rehabilitation in Spain for two months and decided to play again. I called my agent and said I was ready. I was told to wait almost until the end of February, because in different leagues there are different “deadlines”. But I wanted to train and play 5×5 basketball. There were different offers from Poland to come and train and not play any games. Later it spread, there was talk about contract and I chose Szczecin, because it’s a nice place. I watched three last games of Kinga and I talked a lot with Spanish coach Jesus Ramirez. He said that he would like to take me to the team. Now we just have to play and show what we are capable of. I hope that I will help the team and it will be better than last year . ” – gave an interview for Polsat Sport Maciej Lampe
Coach Ramirez already in his first three games showed that there is a big change. Recently we also got “Tookie” Brown and now me. We hope this will go even better. Of course I would like to win the Polish championship, that’s what I play for. We have a strong enough team, we need to get together and work hard at every practice. Now we will fight for the play-offs, we will see where we finish. We hope that in the future we will play in the finals and fight for the championship – concluded the player.
The team of coach Jesús Ramirez gets the second victory in 2021 and the third victory in the last four games.
Wolves, after success in Wloclawek, occupy 7th place in the table. In next Energa Basket League match Kinga Szczecin players will play against Arka Gdynia on 17th January in Stargard Szczeciński.
Anwil Wloclawek started with a lead which they kept almost to the end of the first quarter. Young Wojciech Tomaszewski got his chance in the first quarter.
In the second quarter Szczecin’s lead was even 12 points after Tookie Brown and Cleveland Melvin’s free throws. Ivan Almeida and Artur Mielczarek tried to respond but it was not enough for Jesús Ramirez team. Lampe was scoring mainly 7 points including once three pointer. In the second inning Lampe was active again. Wloclaw players were missing a lot of shots from unprepared positions and Shawn Jones got injured. First half of the game ended with the score 48:38.
In the third quarter visitors controlled the game. Again Lampe and Zębski made great plays to give guests 14 points advantage. Melvin made it 63:43. Coach Przemyslaw Frasunkiewicz was trying to rotate the roster and look for the right setting. Rotnei Clarke was hitting important threes and Anwil managed to reduce the deficit. After 30 minutes it was 71:58. Clarke and Zamojski were keeping score on Anwil side. Good minutes by Sulima who showed that he feels better playing closer to the basket.
Last quarter started from 58-71 ratio. Based on the score so far it seemed unlikely that Anwil would be able to overcome the deficit especially when Shawn Jones was out of the lineup and Ivan Almeida was playing mediocre basketball. However, Rottweilers showed their character and started chasing Wolves. Clarke was hitting three-pointers and Sulima was fighting bravely under the basket. With four minutes left Zubr’s points cut the Wolves lead to four points (69-73).
With 48 ticks left on the clock after good block Bartosz was blocked by Valeriy Lichodiej and Anwil was running fastbreak attack and he scored important three-pointer and the score was 74-77 for King Szczecin. Immediate reaction of Morskie Wolves and coach Jesusa Ramirez asked for a timeout because the team only lead by 3 points.
With less than 24 seconds to go it was 75-77 after Almeida’s free throw. Visitors could play till the end and Anwil decided to try to intercept the ball, but they couldn’t do it so with 4 seconds to go Almeida decided to foul Melvin. Melvin made only one free throw. Hosts had a chance to go to overtime but Clarke missed the most important shot. Finally Sea Wolves won by two points 78:75.
“I had my last contract in Bahrain, where I played the whole season. After that I decided to rest because my body was tired. I underwent rehabilitation in Spain for two months and decided to play again. I called my agent and said I was ready. I was told to wait almost until the end of February, because in different leagues there are different “deadlines”. But I wanted to train and play 5×5 basketball. There were different offers from Poland to come and train and not play any games. Later it spread, there was talk about contract and I chose Szczecin, because it’s a nice place. I watched three last games of Kinga and I talked a lot with Spanish coach Jesus Ramirez. He said that he would like to take me to the team. Now we just have to play and show what we are capable of. I hope that I will help the team and it will be better than last year . ” – gave an interview for Polsat Sport Maciej Lampe
Coach Ramirez already in his first three games showed that there is a big change. Recently we also got “Tookie” Brown and now me. We hope this will go even better. Of course I would like to win the Polish championship, that’s what I play for. We have a strong enough team, we need to get together and work hard at every practice. Now we will fight for the play-offs, we will see where we finish. We hope that in the future we will play in the finals and fight for the championship – concluded the player.
The team of coach Jesús Ramirez gets the second victory in 2021 and the third victory in the last four games.
Wolves, after success in Wloclawek, occupy 7th place in the table. In next Energa Basket League match Kinga Szczecin players will play against Arka Gdynia on 17th January in Stargard Szczeciński.
Anwil Włocławek – King Szczecin 75:78 (17:20, 21:28, 20:23, 17:7)
Anwil Włocławek: Przemysław Zamojski 16, Ivan Almeida 15, Rotnei Clarke 11, Artur Mielczarek 11, Walerij Lichodiej 9, Krzysztof Sulima 7, Wojciech Tomaszewski 4, Ivica Radić 2, Andrzej Pluta 0, Shawn Jones 0.
King Szczecin : Cleveland Melvin 18, Mateusz Zębski 17, Maciej Lampe 15 (5 zbiórek i 2 asysty.) , Tookie Brown 7, Jakub Schenk 6, Wojciech Czerlonko 5, Dominik Wilczek 3, Zach Thomas 3, Dustin Ware 2, Mateusz Bartosz 2
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