Javonte Douglas

Javonte Adwin Douglas (born November 28, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for Uralmash Yekaterinburg of the VTB United League. He played four years of college basketball at four different colleges before playing professionally in Paraguay, Cyprus, New Zealand, the Czech Republic, and Russia.

Early life Douglas is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended Kennedy Charter High School in Charlotte, graduating in the spring of 2012 and averaging 17.4 points per game during his senior season.

College career As a freshman at Hill College in 2012–13, Douglas averaged 16.3 points and 6.5 rebounds per game and earned honorable mention Junior College All-American honors, first-team All-Region, and was the Conference MVP.

As a sophomore at the College of Central Florida in 2013–14, Douglas averaged 17.2 points and 9.1 rebounds per game and earned second-team Junior College All-American and Mid-Florida Conference Player of the Year. He had season highs of 16 points and nine rebounds on December 29, 2014, against Mount St. Mary's.

In June 2015, Douglas was suspended from the Monarchs basketball program after being arrested and charged with assaulting a student. Ten months earlier, he had been arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and battery.

Douglas transferred to Montevallo and redshirted the 2015–16 season. He scored a career-high 34 points against Lane College and grabbed a career-best 20 rebounds against Lander during the season. He was named Peach Belt Conference Player of the Week four times and earned first-team All-Peach Belt Conference selection and first-team NCAA Division II All-Southeast Region selection.

For the 2017–18 season, Douglas played in Cyprus with Lefke Avrupa Universitesi. He then joined the Taranaki Mountainairs in New Zealand for the 2018 NZNBL season. He earned NZNBL Player of the Week for round one. In 13 games, he averaged 21.6 points, 10.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game.

For the 2018–19 season, Douglas moved to the Czech Republic to play for BK Olomoucko in the Czech NBL. In 36 games, he averaged 15.3 points, 8.3 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.3 steals per game. On June 25, he recorded a triple-double with 34 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists in a 131–100 win over the Manawatu Jets. In 15 games, he averaged 19.7 points, 11.5 rebounds, 6.6 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.7 blocks per game.

In October 2022, Douglas re-joined Uralmash for the 2022–23 season. He missed eight weeks of action between November 12 and January 11 due to injury. He helped the team win back-to-back Super League 1 championships. In 24 games, he averaged 13.7 points, 7.9 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.2 steals per game. In 40 games in 2023–24, he averaged 10.2 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.4 steals per game.

Personal life Douglas has two brothers and one sister.