Daði Lár Jónsson | |
Height Cm: | 182 |
League: | Úrvalsdeild karla |
Team: | Haukar |
Nationality: | Icelandic |
Birth Date: | 1996 10, df=y |
Birth Place: | Iceland |
Career Start: | 2010–2019 2022 |
Years1: | 2010 |
Years2: | 2012–2016 |
Years3: | 2016–2018 |
Team3: | Keflavík |
Years4: | 2018–2019 |
Team4: | Haukar |
Years5: | 2022–2023 |
Team5: | Valur |
Years6: | 2023–present |
Team6: | Haukar |
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Daði Lár Jónsson (born 23 October 1996) is an Icelandic basketball player and former sprinter.[1] During his basketball career, he won the Icelandic Basketball Cup twice as a member of Stjarnan and once with Valur.
Daði came up through the junior programs of Stjarnan. In January 2016, he moved over to Keflavík, where his father had starred.[2] He left the club in July 2018.[3] In August 2018, he signed with Haukar.[4] For the 2018–19 season, he averaged 8.4 points and team leading 3.8 assists.
On 24 September 2023, he won the Icelandic Super Cup after Valur defeated Tindastóll 80–72.[5]
After starting the 2023–2024 season with Valur, Daði signed with Haukar in November 2023.[6]
Daði's father, Jón Kr. Gíslason, played 158 games for the Icelandic national team between 1982 and 1995[7] and coached the national team from 1995[8] to 1999.[9] Daði's brothers, Dagur Kár Jónsson[10] and Dúi Þór Jónsson, have also played in the Úrvalsdeild karla.[11]