Luboš Bartoň

Luboš Bartoň (born 7 April 1980) is a Czech former professional basketball player and coach. During his pro club career, at a height of 2.02 m tall, he played at the small forward position. As a player, he was a member of the FIBA European Selection Team in 1998, and he won the EuroLeague championship in 2010.

College career Bartoň played college basketball at Valparaiso University, with the Valparaiso Crusaders, from 1998 to 2002. During his college career, he won three Mid-Continent Conference championships, in the years 1999, 2001, and 2002, and three Mid-Continent Conference Tournament championships, in the years 1999, 2000, and 2002.

On an individual level, as a freshman, Bartoň made the Mid-Continent Conference All-Freshman Team, and he was named the Mid-Continent Conference Newcomer of the Year, in 1999. In 2002, as a senior, Bartoň was named the Mid-Continent Conference Player of the Year, and he was an Honorable Mention selection by the Associated Press, for the 2002 All-American Team. He was also a four-time All-Mid-Continent Conference Team selection. He was a two-time first team selection, in 1999 and 2002, as well as a two-time second team selection, in the years 2000 and 2001.

Bartoň was also a three-time All-Mid-Continent Conference Tournament Team selection, in the years 1999, 2000, and 2001, and he was also named the Mid-Continent Conference Tournament MVP in 2000.

Bartoň was inducted into the Valparaiso Athletics Hall of Fame in the years 2017.

Professional career Bartoň grew up playing youth system basketball with the SCE Decin youth teams. Prior to playing college basketball in the United States, Bartoň made his debut at the senior men's club level with SCE Decin, during the 1996–97 season. After spending two seasons with SCE Decin, he moved to the US, to play four years of college basketball in the NCAA Division I.

After he left college, Bartoň played in the 2002 Rocky Mountain Revue NBA Summer League, with the summer league squad of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. He then moved to Italy, for the 2002–03 season, to play professional basketball with the Italian A League club Fortitudo Bologna. After that, he joined the Italian club Virtus Roma, for the 2003–04 season.

He then moved to Spain for the 2005–06 season, where he joined the Spanish ACB League club Joventut Badalona. After three seasons with Badalona, he moved to the Spanish club FC Barcelona, in 2008. In August 2010, he then moved to the Spanish club Fuenlabrada, after he signed a two-year deal with the club.

Barton finished his professional playing career in the Spanish second division with FC Barcelona B, the reserve team of FC Barcelona.

National team career Czech Republic junior national team Bartoň was a member of the junior national teams of the Czech Republic. With the Czech Republic's Under-20 junior national team, he played at the 2000 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship.

Czech Republic senior national team Bartoň was also a member of the senior men's Czech Republic national team. Bartoň represented the Czech Republic's senior national team at the following major FIBA tournaments: the 1999 FIBA EuroBasket, the 2007 FIBA EuroBasket, the 2013 FIBA EuroBasket, and the 2015 FIBA EuroBasket. At the 1999 FIBA EuroBasket, Bartoň was the second best scorer of the tournament, with a scoring average of 18.7 points per game, and he also led the tournament in steals, with an average of 2.0 per game.

Coaching career On 3 October 2016, Bartoň retired from professional basketball, and he decided to start a new career as a basketball coach. On 13 July 2022, Bartoň became an assistant coach of the Spanish ACB League club Girona, for the 2022–23 season.

Career statistics

EuroLeague

†Denotes season in which Bartoň won the EuroLeague* Led the league