DeShawn Sims

Quick Facts

Full Name	DeShawn Sims
Occupation	Basketball Player
Date Of Birth	Jan 21, 1988(1988-01-21)
Age	36
Birthplace	Detroit
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Capricorn

DeShawn Sims Biography

DeShawn Sims is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on January 21, 1988 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. DeShawn Sims, Jr. (born 21 January 1988) is an American professional basketball player with Pallacanestro Biella of the Serie A2 Basket. He previously played with Hekmeh as well as Champville SC of the Lebanese Basketball League and also as teams from Greece, Korea, Israel and Puerto Rico after a career playing for the Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball team. While in high school, he won Associated Press Class A Player of the Year as well as and a Jordan Brand All-American and a fourth-team Parade All-American. At Michigan He was the second-team All-Bigten Conference selection. He signed a free-agent deal for the Boston Celtics for whom he participated for the Orlando Summer League in addition to playing for the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Summer League. He was named an 2011. D-League All-Star as well as NBA Development League Rookie of the Year.

In the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men’s basketball season, Sims ranked among the most successful players within the Big Ten Conference in rebounds per game as well as points per game. field goal percentage. Sims was the leader of his 2008-09 Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball team with scoring and rebounding victories against two top-five teams when he was a college junior, which helped the team to secure a spot in the rankings of national teams to the first time for three years. Additionally, even though they were on their edge, he led the team with scoring every one of the five games prior to in the 2009. NCAA Division I Tournament. Division I Basketball Tournament, with the team’s only regular season win of the season, against a highly ranked opponent. The season ended with the 2009-2008 Big Ten Conference men’s basketball season, he was selected to the All-Big Ten squad by media, and on the coach’s third-team.

Sims led the team in scoring in six of its last seven games including five consecutive games covering the last three regular season games and both 2009 Big Ten Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament games. Sims led the Wolverines in field goal percentage, rebounds and blocked shots. He finished second on the team in minute played, steals and points per game. Sims ended the season fifth in rebounds per game, fifth in points per game and eighth in field goal percentage, eleventh in block shots per game and fifteenth in steals per game in the Big Ten Conference. After, Harris was named team MVP, he requested that Sims be recognized as co-MVP. Sims was recognized as co-MVP.

Prior to the beginning of the 2009-10 NCAA Division I men’s basketball season, Sims was one of two members (along with Manny Harris) of the 2009–10 Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball team named among the 50 preseason Wooden Award watch list nominees. At the conclusion of 2009–10 Big Ten Conference regular season he was recognized as a second-team All-Big Ten selection by both the coaches and the media. Sims concluded the season as the Big Ten Conference leader in offensive rebounds.

In his junior year He became one of the best shooters, and rebounders within the Big Ten Conference. On the 20th of November in 2008 Michigan’s unranked Wolverines team defeated the top-ranked UCLA Bruins men’s basketball team to win its first game against the top five team in eleven years. The 29th of November,, against Savannah State, Sims posted games-highs of 23 points as well as 12 rebounds, which included an overtime buzzer-beater in overtime as Michigan defeated an early deficit of 20 points at halftime. Sims played as the sixth man in November, was the team’s top scorer in scoring , scoring 18 points, and was tied for the team’s top position in rebounding. The 3rd of December Sims made his debut in the starting lineup in a game in which Michigan played Maryland in the ACC Big Ten Challenge. On December 6, 2008, Michigan scored its second win in a row over an opponent that is ranked in the top five in a rematch with the #4-ranked Duke Blue Devils men’s basketball team. Sims again led the team with a career-high of 28 points. He also tallied a team record with 12 rebound. On December 22, 2008, Sims was the very first Wolverine scoring 20-plus points and also add 20 rebound in the same game since Phil Hubbard had 22 points and 26 rebounds during the win over University of Detroit in the 1977 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament. In the wake of these significant wins and continued team performance, they climbed to the top 25 of the rankings of national teams on the 22nd of December in the very first time since the 6th of February the 6th of February, 2006. On February 26 he was the top scorer with a record-setting 29 points against the top 16-ranked Purdue Boilermakers men’s basketball team which Michigan defeated 87-78. This brought the team’s record to 3-4 against top- ranked opponents during the season. Following the end in the 2009-08 Big Ten Conference men’s basketball regular season, he was selected to the second of the Big Ten All-Big Ten Team by media, and on the team of coaches’ third.

DeShawn Sims Net Worth

DeShawn Sims is one of the richest Basketball Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, DeShawn Sims 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was born in Detroit, Michigan, as the son of Lolita Pruitt and DeShawn S. Sims Sr. Sims is said to have 13 sisters and brothers. Sims played well in the football team at Detroit Pershing High School, when as a freshman he was a guard. He was a starter when he was a sophomore , and was awarded the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press All-Detroit Honorable Mention distinction. In his junior year the team was named Associated Press Class A All-State. In the 2005-06 season, he was awarded Associated Press Class A Player of the Year accolades. In that season in 2005, he was the recipient of a Jordan Brand All- American, a fourth-team Parade All-American, and a unanimous Associated Press Class A All-State selection. Sims was the captain of his squad to victory in winning the Detroit Public School League championship game, where they lost the game to Redford High School, a team headed by senior Manny Harris, who later became Sims his teammate at Michigan. Through the season of his final year, Sims averaged 25.0 scores, 12.0 rebound, 3.0 blocks, and 4.0 assists. He was ranked at the third spot in Hal Schram Mr. Basketball of Michigan vote, behind David Kool and Tom Herzog. Sims was a participant in several All-Star events and won the prize for the best player in the U.S. All-Stars vs. Capital All-Stars Game in Washington, D.C. At High school, Rivals.com ranked Sims as the top High school Power Forward as well as the the 31 overall basketball athlete across the United States. Scout.com also ranked Sims as the number 9 small forward in high school across the nation. Sims is known as an alias that has been reported in the media as Peedi as well as Peety.

In the University of Michigan, Sims was a starter in two games in his freshman season and played all 32 games sophomore. Sims made his debut for his 2006-07 Michigan Wolverines in the season opening game, scoring 2 points and two rebounds in 6 minutes on the 10th of November in a game against Central Connecticut and made his debut on December 28 against Army with 13 points. He was the brother of Marcus Pruitt, who was a 6 feet 11 inch (2.11 m) senior at Pershing and was shot to death in the first year of Sims’s college. The next year, in the 2007/08 NCAA Division I men’s basketball season, his scoring averages shot up between 3.4 scores per match from 12.3 as well as from 2.3 rebound per game to 5.4. The following season He led Michigan in rebounding and ranked at 14th place within the Big Ten Conference, while being 12th in scoring. He was also awarded the All-Big Ten honorable mention. In his sophomore year, Sims started the John Beilein Era of Michigan by winning Big Ten Player of the Week awards during the week of the 12th of November the 12th of November, 2007.

Harris and Sims were named among the 50 preseason Wooden Award watch list nominees. Sims became the second Wolverine to earn Big Ten Player of the Week during the 2009–10 Big Ten Conference men’s basketball season for his efforts during week nine (January 4–10). As the season progressed, Sims was called on to take decisive shots in a few close games: On January 26, he attempted an alley oop with 0.9 seconds remaining as Michigan trailed by one point against Michigan State, and on February 16, he made a game-tying three point shot against Iowa with 6.1 seconds remaining to enable Michigan to emerge victorious in overtime. At the conclusion of the regular season, he was named a second-team All-conference selection by both the coaches and the media. He was also recognized as Michigan’s Big Ten Sportsmanship Awards honoree. He was recognized as an All-District second-team selection by the National Association of Basketball Coaches making him eligible for the State Farm Division I All‐America teams.

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On September 30, 2013, Sims signed with the Boston Celtics. He was one of four nonguaranteed training camp invites (along with Damen Bell-Holter, Kammron Taylor and Chris Babb), vying for the final roster spot after accounting for the 14 guaranteed contracts. He was one of three small forwards invited to camp, along with Jeff Green, Gerald Wallace. On October 26, 2013, he was waived by the Celtics who waived all four nonguaranteed invitees reducing their roster to 14. After waiving the four players, Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said all four were welcome to join the team’s D-League affiliate, Maine Red Claws, if they were willing to accept the low paying salary instead of higher paying offers overseas. Sims was the only one of the four who did not sign with the Red Claws by the end of the month. That year, he went on to sign with Hapoel Gilboa Galil of the Israeli Basketball Super League. In August 2014, he signed with Jeonju KCC Egis of the Korean Basketball League.

Facts & Trivia

DeShawn Ranked on the list of most popular Basketball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. DeShawn Sims celebrates birthday on January 21 of every year.

On July 6, 2017, Sims signed with Italian club Eurobasket Roma. He averaged 18.2 points per game on the team. On July 4, 2018, Sims signed with Pallacanestro Biella.