Boniface N'Dong

Boniface N'Dong is a Senegalese former basketball player and current coach, born on 3 September 1977 in M'Bour, Senegal, who also holds German citizenship. Unable to enter an American college, he moved to Germany in 1999 and worked his way up through SpVgg Rattelsdorf and TSV Tröster Breitengüßbach to the Basketball Bundesliga with Bamberg in 2003, then played in France for Dijon. As a seven-foot center he spent the 2005-06 season in the National Basketball Association with the Los Angeles Clippers, and later played in Spain for Unicaja Málaga and FC Barcelona and in Turkey for Galatasaray, retiring in 2013. With the Senegal national team he won silver at the FIBA Africa Championship 2005 and was named the tournament's most valuable player. He later became an assistant coach at Unicaja Málaga and, from 2020, head coach of the Senegal national team.