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Place of Birth: Yaoundé, Centre, Cameroon
About Joseph Owona
- Joseph Owona (born August 26, 1976) is a Cameroonian professional basketball player for JSA Bordeaux Basket.
- He is most noted for being a physician and sport medicine specialist, graduated while still playing basketball.
- He has helped his national team winning the silver medal at the FIBA Africa Championship 2007, averaging 6.3 rebounds per game.
- Owona also represented Cameroon at the 2011 Afrobasket, with a seventh place finish.
- He was most valuable player in 2006 of the Quai 54 tournament in Paris with team Zikfi.
- Generally playing center, he was a solid rebounder and defender, several times best shot blocker of the league.
- Owona was known as "Big Ben" or "DocBen" through his years with his club, returning to Bordeaux shortly after his retirement.
- He is now a physician in SOS Medecins Bordeaux and Aldo sport physician for French under 18 national team.
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