James “Jimmy” Thordsen Lasvitt, (born July 23, 1948 in New York, New York) is a former Puerto Rican basketball player. At 1.93 meters tall, he played in the power forward position.
sports career[editar]
Universidad[editar]
Cugó four seasons with the Pumas from Saint Joseph’s College in Indiana, where he broke all university records, being the first player to have his jersey retired, with number 50, as a tribute.[1]In his last three seasons he was chosen as the most valuable player in the Indiana Collegiate Conference, and in 1975 he was included by the coaches in the best All-American quintet, being the first Puerto Rican to do so.[2]
professional[editar]
Thordsen had his only European experience during the 1975-76 season with Obradoiro, then a member of the Spanish second division. He was the team’s leading scorer, and they were on the brink of promotion to first.[1]
He later returned to his country, where he played for fourteen seasons with Gallitos de Isabela, with whom he scored more than 6,000 points in the BSN.[3]In that competition he was chosen for ten seasons as the most gentlemanly player, and one as the most valuable player.[2]
National selection[editar]
With the Puerto Rican basketball team he participated in two Olympic Games, Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976, where he obtained sixth and ninth place respectively, reaching a total of fourteen games in both Olympic events in which he scored 74 points, especially highlighting in his last Olympic game, the one played on July 24, 1976 against Italy in Montreal, in which he scored 16 points, in a match in which the Italians beat Puerto Rico 95-81. Jimmy Thordsen also played in the 1974 World Cup, which was played precisely in Puerto Rico, and in which the host team managed to finish in seventh place in the final classification of the championship, and a year later, he was present at the Pan American Games played in Mexico in 1975, in which the Puerto Rico National Team won the silver medal.[3]
