Retired - Retired after 2013 season
- Birthdate: 06/11/1985
- Drafted (NBA): Undrafted, 2008
- Pre-draft team: Houston
- Country: USA
- Hand: Right
- Agent: -
| Date | League | Transaction |
|---|---|---|
| 11th August, 2008 | NBA | Signed a partially guaranteed two year minimum salary contract with Golden State. |
| 23rd September, 2008 | CBA | Drafted 9th overall in the 2008 CBA Draft by Lawton-Fort Sill Cavalry. |
| 9th October, 2008 | NBA | Waived by Golden State. |
| 8th November, 2008 | Belgium | Signed for the remainder of the season with Mons Hainaut. |
| 10th January, 2009 | Belgium | Left Mons Hainaut. |
| 11th January, 2009 | Israel | Signed for the remainder of the season and through 2010 with Galil Gilboa. |
| 6th August, 2010 | Israel | Signed a two year contract with Hapoel Jerusalem. |
| 23rd June, 2011 | Israel | Released by Hapoel Jerusalem. |
| 29th June, 2011 | Israel | Signed a one year contract with BC Habikaa. |
| 6th September, 2012 | Germany | Signed a one year contract with Fraport Skyliners. |
| 5th February, 2013 | Germany | Left Fraport Skyliners. |
| 6th February, 2013 | Israel | Signed a one month contract with Hapoel Eilat. Included team option for the remainder of the season. |
| 5th March, 2013 | Israel | Hapoel Eilat exercised option for the remainder of the season. |
| 2004 - 2006 | Texas (NCAA) |
| 2006 - 2008 | Houston (NCAA) |
| July 2008 | Golden State Warriors (Summer League) |
| August 2008 - October 2008 | Golden State Warriors (NBA) |
| November 2008 - January 2009 | Mons Hainaut (Belgium) |
| January 2009 - June 2010 | Galil Gilboa (Israel) |
| August 2010 - June 2011 | Hapoel Jerusalem (Israel) |
| June 2011 - June 2012 | BC Habikaa (Israel) |
| September 2012 - February 2013 | Fraport Skyliners (Germany) |
| February 2013 - June 2013 | Hapoel Eilat (Israel) |
January 29, 2010
- Dion Dowell
Dowell is signed in Israel, putting up numbers quite impressively similar to those of his senior season in college. He's playing for Altshuler Saham Galil Gilboa - a team that really needs to settle upon one name only - and is averaging 9.6 points, 4.8 rebounds, 0.5 assists, 1.4 blocks and 1.5 steals per game.
There are two types of players in Israel; Israelis and Americans. That's it. Despite Israel being kind of in Europe, there are only a handful of non-Israeli European players in the league. And by "a handful," I mean "two." The breakdown of the nationalities of players on Israeli league rosters, according to Eurobasket.com, goes like this;
- 60 thoroughbred Israelis
- 50 thoroughbred Americans
- 7 Americans with dual Israeli citizenship (Chris Watson, Jason Thomas, Jeron Roberts, Shawn Weinstein, David Bluthenthal, Derrick Sharp, and ex-NBA player Cory Carr)
- 1 Australian (Julian Khazzouh)
- 1 player born in Belarus, but who has lived in Israel since childhood, goes by an Israeli name, and who holds a dual Israeli passport (Vladimir Yiermish/Vladi Ermichin)
- 1 Welshman who has played in Israeli since he was a teenager and who holds an Israeli passport (Tal Michael Dunne)
- 1 Englishman/Nigerian (Ugonna Onyekwe)
- 1 dual American/Panamanian citizen (Danilo Pinnock)
- 1 dual American/Puerto Rican citizen (Jesse Pellot-Rosa)
- 1 Israeli with a Polish passport (Yaniv Green; plays for the Israeli national team)
- 1 Gabonian (Stephane Lasme)
- 1 hybrid who was born in Sarajevo to Serbian and Bosnian parents, whose family fled to Israel during the war, and who then moved to America, but who considers himself Israeli (Robert Rothbart; read his quite amazing story here)
- ......and 1 thoroughbred Serbian (Sasa Bratic)
I don't know if it's all just a big coincidence, politically motivated, or because of some instilled belief that American players bring a level of flair that other countries can't match (a belief which does exist in portions of the continent). But whatever it is, it's a pretty jarring conclusion. 123 of the 126 players in the Israeli league hold either an American or an Israeli passport. If it's diversity they want, it's diversity they did not get.