Jacques Conceição | |
Position: | Point guard |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 3 |
Weight Lb: | 190 |
League: | LPB |
Team: | Galitos F.C. |
Number: | 15 |
Birth Date: | 1989 9, mf=yes |
Birth Place: | Lisbon, Portugal |
Nationality: | Angolan / Portuguese |
High School: | Lycée français Charles Lepierre |
College: | William Paterson |
Draft Year: | 2015 |
Career Start: | 2015 |
Years1: | 2015–2017 |
Team1: | Galitos F.C. |
Years2: | 2017–2018 |
Team2: | Primeiro de Agosto |
Years3: | 2018–2019 |
Team3: | S.L. Benfica |
Years4: | 2019–2020 |
Team4: | ADO Basquetebol Sad Ovarense |
Years5: | 2020–2021 |
Team5: | Galitos F.C. |
Years6: | 2021–2022 |
Team6: | Lusitânia |
Years7: | 2022–2023 |
Team7: | Imortal |
Years8: | 2023–present |
Team8: | Galitos F.C. |
Jacques leandro Pinto Nzadi Conceição (born 4 September 1989) is an Angolan-Portuguese basketball player.[1] [2] for Galitos F.C. of the LPB.[3]
Before attending college, he played basketball at the Atlético Clube de Portugal where he won the South conference and was third at the Final Four as a senior.[4] He moved to William Paterson University in 2011, he averaged 7.79 points, 5.68 rebounds and 1.61 assists in his freshman year.[5] [6] In his sophomore year, he averaged 7.79 points, 5.68 rebounds and 1.61 assists.[7] In his junior year, he averaged 10.42 points, 7.89 rebounds and 1.22 assists.[8] In his Senior year, he averaged 8.10 points, 5.07 rebounds and 1.59 assists.[9] [10]
Conceição played for the Galitos F.C. in the 2015–16 season, he averaged 6.66 points, 3.38 rebounds and 1.56 assists.[11] In the 2016–17 season, he averaged 10.92 points, 3.62 rebounds and 2.30 assists.[12] In the 2017–18 season, he moved to the Angolan side Primeiro de Agosto[13] He moved Back to Portugal in the 2018–19 season to play for the S.L. Benfica where he averaged 2.48 points, 1 rebound and 0.65 assists.[14] He moved to the ADO Basquetebol Sad Ovarense in the 2019–20 season.[15] [16]
Conceição represented the Angola national basketball team at the AfroBasket 2017 where he averaged 4.8 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game.[17] Conceição also represented the Angola national basketball team at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in China, where he averaged 3 points, 1 rebound and 1.5 assists per game.[18]
Jacques Conceição is the son of the retired Angolan-Portuguese basketball player Jean-Jacques Conceição.[19]