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He was the 5th overall pick in the 2004 PBA draft selected by the Alaska Aces and he is also the tallest rookie picked in that class. In his early years, Sonny was the backup center for the Aces behind with the dominant bigman Ali Peek and E.J. Feihl in Alaska's Bigman rotation. But in his later years, Thoss eventually became Alaska's starting big man and has become one of the team's top players.

After Thoss moved to Australia played for the Cairns Marlins of the Australian Basketball Association. He trained under Cairns Taipans assistant coach, Aaron Fearne. During his Marlins stint he was named as Most Improved Player in 2001 and was named as part of the league's under-23 squad.

He attended Port Moresby High School. Basketball competitions in Papua New Guinea are rare; Thoss only represented his high school in one-day tournaments. He moved to Australia in 1999 to attend James Cook University.

Joachim Gunther "Sonny" Thoss (born December 7, 1981) is a German-Filipino professional basketball player for the Alaska Aces of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Joachim Thoss was born in December 7, 1981 in Papua New Guinea to a German father and to a Filipina mother. His father, Joachim Thoss Sr. was a East German patrol guard who patrolled the Berlin Wall before it fell and is a carpenter who is involved in construction projects in Papua New Guinea. The younger Thoss' mother, Jesusa Marticio, is from Cebu.