Matt Mobley

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Matt Mobley

| image =

| caption =

| position = Point guard / shooting guard

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 4

| weight_lb = 185

| league = SPB

| team = Guaiqueríes de Margarita

| number = 2

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|09|01}}

| birth_place = Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.

| high_school =

St. Peter-Marian
(Worcester, Massachusetts)
Worcester Academy
(Worcester, Massachusetts)

| college =

Central Connecticut (2013–2015)
St. Bonaventure (2016–2018)

| draft_year = 2018

| career_start = 2018

| years1 = 2018–2019

| team1 = Spirou

| years2 = 2019

| team2 = Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez

| years3 = 2019–2020

| team3 = Sigortam.net İTÜ BB

| years4 = 2020–2021

| team4 = Fraport Skyliners

| years5 = 2021–2022

| team5 = Zaragoza

| years6 = 2022

| team6 = ratiopharm Ulm

| years7 = 2022

| team7 = TNT Tropang Giga

| years8 = 2023

| team8 = JDA Dijon

| years9 = 2024

| team9 = SLUC Nancy

| years10 = 2024

| team10 = Wilki Morskie Szczecin

| years11 = 2025–present

| team11 = Guaiqueríes de Margarita

| highlights =

Belgian League Points Per Game Leader (2019)
PBL All-Offensive Team (2019)
Belgian League Volvo 3 Point Champion (2018)
Belgian League All-Star/Starter (2018)
First-team All-Atlantic 10 (2018)
Third-team All-Atlantic 10 (2017)
Second-team All-NEC (2015)
NEC Most Improved Player (2015)
NEC All-Rookie Team (2014)

}}

Matthew Warren Mobley{{cite web |title=Matt Mobley |url=https://www.acb.com/jugador/temporada-a-temporada/id/30001130 |website=ACB.COM |access-date=April 10, 2025}} (born September 1, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for Guaiqueríes de Margarita of the Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto (SPB). He played college basketball for St. Bonaventure and Central Connecticut State.

Early life

Mobley is the son of Ronald and Pamela Mobley and grew up in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts. As a child he always begged his mother to go to the playground where he would play basketball against teenagers. Mobley developed into a star at St. Peter-Marian High School and averaged 28.2 points, 10.1 rebounds, and 7.3 assists per game as a senior. He led the team to the Central Massachusetts Division 1 title game and earned 2012 Hometeam Player of the Year honors and was a finalist for Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year award. He opted to spend a postgraduate year at Worcester Academy and developed into a good scorer after Rene Castro was injured.{{cite news |last1=Toland |first1=Jennifer |title=Former SPM star Matt Mobley flourishing at St. Bonaventure |url=http://www.telegram.com/sports/20170223/former-spm-star-matt-mobley-flourishing-at-st-bonaventure |accessdate=August 13, 2018 |work=Worcester Telegram & Gazette |date=February 27, 2017}} Besides Castro, who later played against Mobley at Duquesne, Mobley played alongside several future Division 1 players at Worcester Academy: Darryl Reynolds (Villanova), Matt Cimino (George Washington/American) and Matt Panaggio (Mercer).{{cite news |last1=Driver |first1=David |title=College basketball: Former St. Peter-Marian and Worcester Academy star Matt Mobley has found his scoring touch for St. Bonaventure |url=http://www.telegram.com/news/20180201/college-basketball-former-st-peter-marian-and-worcester-academy-star-matt-mobley-has-found-his-scoring-touch-for-st-bonaventure |accessdate=August 13, 2018 |work=Worcester Telegram & Gazette |date=February 1, 2018}}

College career

Mobley began his college career at Central Connecticut State and averaged 6.8 points per game in his freshman season. He increased his scoring to 17.2 points per game as a sophomore and earned Second-team All-Northeast Conference honors.{{cite news |last1=Toland |first1=Jennifer |title=Worcester's Matt Mobley's pro hoop dreams alive with Utah Jazz summer league invite |url=http://www.telegram.com/news/20180630/worcesters-matt-mobleys-pro-hoop-dreams-alive-with-utah-jazz-summer-league-invite |accessdate=August 13, 2018 |work=Worcester Telegram & Gazette |date=July 1, 2018}} After the season he decided to transfer to St. Bonaventure after developing a relationship with coach Mark Schmidt, sitting out a season per NCAA regulations. Mobley had a season-high 34 points and set a St. Bonaventure record with nine 3-pointers in a loss to VCU on February 4, 2017. On February 22, Mobley finished with 31 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Bonnies past St. Joseph’s, 83–77. He was named to the Third-team All-Atlantic 10 Conference as a junior.{{cite news|title=Cline Named Atlantic 10 Player of the Year, Miller Voted as Coach of the Year |url=http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31600&ATCLID=211515812 |accessdate=August 13, 2018 |date=March 7, 2017 |work=Atlantic 10 Conference}} He averaged 18.5 points per game, which was fourth in the conference. In addition, Mobley led the NCAA Division I in minutes per game with 38.3.

On January 31, 2018, Mobley scored a career-high 35 points and had 11 rebounds to lead St. Bonaventure to a victory over George Mason, 85–69.{{cite news |title=Mobley leads St. Bonaventure over George Mason 85–69 |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=400989892 |access-date=August 13, 2018 |work=ESPN |agency=Associated Press |date=January 31, 2018}} As a senior, Mobley averaged 18.1 points, 5.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game. He was named to the First-team All-Atlantic 10. Mobley set a St. Bonaventure single-season record with 105 3-pointers as a senior and set an Atlantic 10 tournament record with nine 3-pointers in a victory over Richmond; along with Jaylen Adams, Mobley helped the Bonnies to a 26–8 record. After the season, he was invited to the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament.{{cite news |title=Former St. Bonaventure guard Matt Mobley gets Utah Jazz summer league invitation |url=https://buffalonews.com/2018/06/24/former-st-bonaventure-guard-matt-mobley-gets-utah-jazz-summer-league-invitation/ |accessdate=August 13, 2018 |work=The Buffalo News |date=June 24, 2018}} Mobley was awarded the Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week by the United States Basketball Writers Association, for the week of February 18, 2018.{{cite web |url=http://www.sportswriters.net/usbwa/news/2018/oscar180220.html |title=ST. BONAVENTURE'S MOBLEY IS OSCAR ROBERTSON NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK |work=United States Basketball Writers Association |accessdate=21 January 2019}}

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| colspan="16" |Season averages

Season

|Team

|Min

|FGM-FGA

|FG%

|3PM-3PA

|3P%

|FTM-FTA

|FT%

|REB

|AST

|BLK

|STL

|PF

|TO

|PTS

2013–14

|CCSU

|24.4

|2.3-6.1

|.370

|1.0-3.4

|.291

|1.2-1.4

|.881

|2.1

|1.7

|0.0

|0.8

|1.9

|1.5

|6.8

2014–15

|CCSU

|37.0

|5.5-13.8

|.400

|2.4-6.7

|.357

|3.8-5.0

|.756

|2.8

|1.8

|0.2

|0.8

|2.1

|2.7

|17.2

2016–17

|SBON

|38.3

|5.5-13.1

|.420

|2.7-7.1

|.379

|4.8-5.6

|.861

|5.8

|2.6

|0.3

|1.6

|2.4

|2.3

|18.5

2017–18

|SBON

|37.6

|5.5-13.1

|.418

|3.1-8.3

|.372

|4.0-4.7

|.862

|5.0

|2.4

|0.1

|1.1

|2.6

|2.4

|18.1

Professional career

Prior to the 2018 NBA draft, Mobley had some workouts with NBA teams: the Brooklyn Nets, Charlotte Hornets, Los Angeles Lakers, Utah Jazz, Sacramento Kings and Philadelphia 76ers. After going undrafted, Mobley was signed by the Jazz to a Summer League deal. On August 11, 2018, Mobley signed with Proximus Spirou of the Belgian side.{{cite web |title=Spirou Charleroi closes roster with Matt Mobley and Quincy Ford |url=https://sportando.basketball/en/europe/belgium/285389/spirou-charleroi-closes-roster-with-matt-mobley-and-quincy-ford.html |website=Sportando |accessdate=August 13, 2018}} He averaged 16.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game while shooting 41.5% from three-point range. On June 29, 2019, he has signed with Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez of the LNB Pro A.{{Cite news|url=https://sportando.basketball/en/matt-mobley-signs-with-pau-lacq-orthez/|title=Matt Mobley signs with Pau-Lacq-Orthez|date=June 29, 2019|newspaper=Sportando|language=En|access-date=July 1, 2019}} He averaged 9 points and 2.5 rebounds per game. On October 30, 2019, Mobley signed with Sigortam.net İTÜ BB of the Turkish Basketball League (BSL).{{Cite news|url=https://sportando.basketball/en/matt-mobley-inks-with-sigortam-net-itu-basket/|title=Matt Mobley inks with Sigortam.net ITU Basket|date=October 31, 2019|newspaper=Sportando|access-date=October 31, 2019}}

On February 28, 2020, he has signed with Fraport Skyliners of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL).{{Cite news|url=https://sportando.basketball/en/frankfurt-lands-matt-mobley/|title=Frankfurt lands Matt Mobley|last=|first=|date=February 28, 2020|website=|newspaper=Sportando|language=En|access-date=March 2, 2020}} Mobley played only one game before the season was cancelled. On September 15, he re-signed with the team.{{cite web |last1=Schmidt-Scheuber |first1=Miles |title=Matt Mobley Returns Back To The Fraport Skyliners For The 20-21 Season |url=https://www.eurobasket.com/Germany/news/644616/Matt-Mobley-Returns-Back-To-The-Fraport-Skyliners-For-The-20-21-Season |website=Eurobasket |accessdate=September 15, 2020 |date=September 15, 2020}} Mobley averaged 20 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 3.5 assists per game. On July 22, 2021, he signed with Basket Zaragoza of the Spanish Liga ACB.{{cite news |title=Casademont Zaragoza lands Matt Mobley |url=https://sportando.basketball/en/casademont-zaragoza-lands-matt-mobley/ |website=Sportando |access-date=July 22, 2021 |date=July 22, 2021|last1=Carchia |first1=Emiliano }}

On August 27, 2022, he signed with ratiopharm Ulm of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL).{{Cite web|url=https://ratiopharmulm.com/news/matt-mobley-zurueck-in-der-bbl-1415/|title=Matt Mobley zurück in der BBL|last=|first=|date=August 27, 2022|website=ratiopharmulm.com|publisher=|language=de|access-date=November 13, 2022}}

On November 20, 2022, Mobley signed with the TNT Tropang Giga of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) to replace Cameron Oliver as the team's import for the 2022–23 PBA Commissioner's Cup.{{cite web|last=Sayson|first=Homer|url=https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/tnt-brings-in-matt-mobley-as-cam-oliver-replacement-a2244-20221120 |title=TNT brings in Matt Mobley as Cam Oliver done with hyperextended knee|website=spin.ph|date=November 20, 2022|accessdate=November 20, 2022}}

On January 4, 2023, he signed with JDA Dijon of the LNB Pro A.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jdadijon.com/2023/01/04/matt-mobley-nouveau-joueur-de-la-jda/|title=Matt Mobley, nouveau joueur de la JDA|last=|first=|date=January 4, 2023|website=jdadijon.com|publisher=|language=fr|access-date=January 11, 2023}}

On October 6, 2023, Mobley signed with Taipei Mars of the T1 League.{{cite news |title=臺北台新戰神公布第3洋將！比利時聯賽三分球王入隊 |url=https://sports.ettoday.net/news/2597564 |accessdate=October 6, 2023 |work=ETtoday |date=October 6, 2023}} He never played for the team as his contract was terminated on November 10.{{cite news |title=比利時聯賽三分球王被Thank You 台北戰神鎖定禁區新援 |url=https://sports.ettoday.net/news/2620213 |accessdate=November 10, 2023 |work=ETtoday |date=November 10, 2023}} On January 17, 2024, Mobley signed with SLUC Nancy of the LNB Pro A.{{cite web |title=Matt Mobley (ex Taipei TM) joins Nancy |url=https://www.eurobasket.com/France/news/848682/Matt-Mobley-ex-Taipei-TM-joins-Nancy |website=Eurobasket |access-date=January 17, 2024 |date=January 17, 2024}}

On March 11, 2024, he signed with Wilki Morskie Szczecin of the Polish Basketball League (PLK).{{Cite web|url=https://sportando.basketball/en/king-szczecin-signs-matt-mobley/|title=King Szczecin signs Matt Mobley|work=Sportando |date=March 11, 2024|language=En|access-date=March 12, 2024 |last1=Maggi |first1=Alessandro }}