Hoyas player out of Georgetown University selected in the 2009 NBA Draft – Pick DaJuan Summers
The Georgetown University Hoyas basketball program had one player selected in the 2009 NBA Draft which was held on June 25, 2009. The only player selected from the Georgetown Hoyas basketball team was DaJuan Summers, who was selected by the Detroit Pistons early in the second round with the 35th overall pick.
DaJuan Summers was born in January 1988 in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up to be a talented 6’8″, 240-pound basketball player who has excelled on every team he has played for before coming to the Pistons. As Newcomer to the Detroit Pistons Summers will have the opportunity to prove that he has what it takes to be one of the best players on the team.
Summers grew up in the Mt. Royal area of Baltimore and attended a private high school called McDonogh School in nearby Owings Mills, Maryland. DaJuan graduated from McDonogh School in 2006 after excelling as a prep basketball star there. While in high school, Summers put together impressive statistics, as he averaged 20 points per game and 11 rebounds per game during his junior season. Those numbers were partly responsible for Summers winning the coveted Baltimore City Player of the Year award.
In addition to starring on his high school’s basketball team, DaJuan spent the off-seasons playing in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), which serves as an off-season league for the country’s top basketball prospects. AAU has become popular across the country because it allows top players to hone their skills year-round while also building all-star rosters that pick the best players in the area without regard to high school affiliations.
For his college basketball career, Summers chose to stay relatively close to home and attend Georgetown University, where he played for head basketball coach John Thompson III. John Thompson III is actually the son of legendary Hoyas basketball head coach John Thompson Junior, who coached the Washington DC-based team from 1972 until his retirement in 1999.
As a member of the Detroit Pistons, Dajuan Summers now plays for John Kuester, who only began coaching the Michigan-based professional basketball team the same season Summers entered the league. The Pistons job is the first NBA head coaching job for Coach Kuester. Kuester had been a longtime NBA assistant since 1995 with the Boston Celtics.
During his first year in the National Basketball Association (NBA), Summers played in 44 of 82 games for his team and averaged one rebound per contest and just over three points per contest. In the future, DaJuan Summers hopes to improve his meager professional basketball stats.