Gerson Gonçalves | |
Team: | Aix Maurienne Savoie Basket |
Position: | Shooting guard |
League: | LNB Pro B |
Birth Date: | 1996 3, df=y |
Birth Place: | Luanda, Angola |
Height M: | 1.94 |
Weight Kg: | 80 |
Career Start: | 2015 |
Years1: | 2015–2024 |
Team1: | Petro de Luanda |
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Years2: | 2024–present |
Team2: | AMSB |
Gerson Henriques Gonçalves (born 29 March 1996), also known as Lukeny, is an Angolan basketball player for AMSB of the French LNB Pro B.[1] [2] He played nine seasons for Petro de Luanda of the Angolan Basketball League, where he was two-time league MVP winner (2019 and 2022) and a BAL champion in 2024.[3] [4]
Gonçalves played for Petro de Luanda in the 2015 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup.[5]
He participated in the 2018–19 Africa Basketball League where he averaged 6.6 points, 2.8 rebounds and 3 assists per game.[6]
Gonçalves was named the MVP of the Angolan League in 2019, after winning his second title with Petro.[7] He repeated as most valuable player three years later, in 2022, after another national championship.[8]
He won his first BAL championship on June 1, 2024, after Petro defeated Al Ahly Ly in the final.[9] He contributed 16 points in the final against Al Ahly Ly.
On 16 July 2024, Gonçalves signed a one-year contract with Aix Maurienne Savoie Basket of the French LNB Pro B, the national second-level league.[10]
Gonçalves played for Angola's junior teams and helped them win the 2015 African Games. At the 2014 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship, he averaged 16.6 points on his way to help Angola finish in 4th place.
represented the Angola national basketball team at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in China,[11] where he averaged 3.2 points, 1 rebound and 1.5 assists per game.[12] [13] [14] [15]
|-| style="text-align:left;"|2021| style="text-align:left;"|Petro de Luanda| 6 || 6 || 25.0 || .457 || .200 || .700 || 5.5 || 4.0 || 1.2 || .5 || 8.8|-|style="text-align:left;"|2022|style="text-align:left;"|Petro de Luanda| 8 || 8 || 25.4 || .521 || .372 || .700 || 3.4 || 4.1 || .9 || .1 || 12.1|-|style="text-align:left;"|2023|style="text-align:left;"|Petro de Luanda| 8 || 8 || 23.4 || .510 || .360 || .750 || 3.4 || 3.5 || b || .0 || 9.1
(2018)