Gerson Henriques Gonçalves (born 29 March 1996), also known as Lukeny, is an Angolan basketball player for AMSB of the French LNB Pro B. He played nine seasons for Petro de Luanda of the Angolan Basketball League, where he was a two-time league MVP winner (2019 and 2022) and a BAL champion in 2024.
Professional career
Angola Gonçalves played for Petro de Luanda in the 2015 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup.
He participated in the 2018–19 Africa Basketball League where he averaged 6.6 points, 2.8 rebounds and 3 assists per game.
Gonçalves was named the MVP of the Angolan League in 2019, after winning his second title with Petro. He repeated as most valuable player three years later, in 2022, after another national championship.
He won his first BAL championship on June 1, 2024, after Petro defeated Al Ahly Ly in the final. He contributed 16 points in the final against Al Ahly Ly.
France On 16 July 2024, Gonçalves signed a one-year contract with Aix Maurienne Savoie Basket of the French LNB Pro B, the national second-level league.
National team career Gonçalves played for Angola's junior teams and helped them win the 2015 African Games. At the 2014 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship, he averaged 16.6 points on his way to helping Angola finish in 4th place.
represented the Angola national basketball team at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in China, where he averaged 3.2 points, 1 rebound and 1.5 assists per game.
BAL career statistics
| style="text-align:left;"|2021 | style="text-align:left;"|Petro de Luanda | 6 || 6 || 25.0 || .457 || .200 || .700 || 5.5 || 4.0 || 1.2 || .5 || 8.8 |- |style="text-align:left;"|2022 |style="text-align:left;"|Petro de Luanda | 8 || 8 || 25.4 || .521 || .372 || .700 || 3.4 || 4.1 || .9 || .1 || 12.1 |- |style="text-align:left;"|2023 |style="text-align:left;"|Petro de Luanda | 8 || 8 || 23.4 || .510 || .360 || .750 || 3.4 || 3.5 || b || .0 || 9.1
Awards and accomplishments Club 4× Angolan League: (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023) 2× Taça de Angola: (2022, 2023) 2× Supertaça de Angola: (2021, 2022) Individual 2× Angolan League MVP: (2019, 2022) Angolan Basketball League Regular Season MVP: (2018)
References
External links Gerson Goncalves at Eurobasket.com