Bjorn Aubre McKie

Bjorn Aubre McKie
Player information
Nickname	BJ
birthday	April 7, 1977 (43 years and 145 days)
place of birth	Norfolk , Virginia , United States
size	188 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college	South carolina
Clubs as active
1995–1999 USC Gamecocks ( NCAA ) 1999 BCM Gravelines 1999–2001 Connecticut Pride ( CBA ) 2001–2002 North Charleston Lowgators 2002 Keravnos Strovolou 2002–2003 Avitos Gießen 2003–2005 TBB Trier 2005–2006 Andrea Costa Imola 2006–2007 JuveCaserta Basket 2007 –2008 Nuovo Pallacanestro Pavia 2008–2009 Maccabi Haifa 2009–2010 Hapoel Afula 2010 Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata 00000 00000 00000
Clubs as coaches
2011-2017 CSU Buccaneers (NCAA; AC ) since 2017 ETSU (NCAA; AC ) 0

Bjorn Aubre "BJ" McKie (born April 7, 1977 in Norfolk , Virginia ) is a former American basketball player who has played in Europe for several years , including in the German basketball league , Italian LegADue and the Israeli league ha 'Al . He has been working as a trainer since summer 2011.

College players

McKie is one of the most successful basketball players at his university in South Carolina. As a scorer, he scored during his four-year study of 2,119 points achieved and sat down with it in the eternal basketball player list of the university in the first place - ahead of the member of the Hall of Fame , Alex English , who, however, more points per game for the Gamecocks scored as McKie . His jersey with number 3 is since 2005 the Gamecocks awarded to any player more to make this shirt number is honorary always associated with McKie connected. In 2006 he was inducted into the Gamecocks Hall of Fame . With the help of McKie, the traditional college team was able to qualify for an NCAA Division I basketball championship for the first time after an eight-year break in 1997 , but, like a year later, did not get past the first round of the NCAA championship tournament.

Professional stations in Europe and the USA

After his college days McKie was active for a few games in Dunkirk, France at BCM Gravelines, but otherwise played for Connecticut Pride in the CBA . In the 2001/02 season he was active in the NBA Development League for the North Charleston Lowgators.

In 2002 he left the lower-class American professional leagues and began the 2002/03 season in Nicosia , Cyprus , before being brought to Germany in November 2002 by Avitos Giessen. With Gießen he was able to reach third place in the cup final in 2003 and was the best basket scorer in the Bundesliga in the 2002/03 season with 25 points per game . In the following season he followed his trainer from Giessen, Joe Whelton, to the TBB in Trier . Third place was also achieved in the cup and McKie was able to defend his title as the most successful points collector per game in the BBL. He was also appointed to the BBL All-Star Game for the first time . In the pre-season for the 2004/05 season McKie suffered a herniated disc , so he did not play for much of this season and was replaced by Brian Brown .

In the following season McKie was in the Italian second division in Imola under contract and was one of the top three point collectors in this league with 24 points per game. With his team he reached the final of the league cup in this division. For the 2006/07 season he moved to the league competitor in Caserta , where he was still among the top ten point collectors in the league with just under 20 points per game. After third place in the main round, McKie and JuveCaserta were eliminated in the play-off quarter-finals with Imola a year earlier, so that promotion to the Lega Basket Serie A did not succeed. In the following season McKie migrated to the league competitor in Pavia . Although he remained constant at just under 20 points in his personal statistics, Pavia missed the play-offs for promotion, in which Caserta managed to qualify for the top division this time.

In 2008 McKie left Italy and signed a contract with Maccabi Haifa in Israel. The team reached the runner-up and the cup final in 2009. The following season McKie went to Hapoel Afula. The contract was terminated prematurely in January 2010, after which he signed a contract in La Plata, Argentina, in February 2010 with Gimnasia y Esgrima , for which he completed four more games in the Liga Nacional de Básquetbol .

College coach

From July 2011 McKie worked as an assistant coach to Barclay Radebaugh, who had coached him himself as an assistant coach at Southern Carolina University, at Charleston Southern University in the Big South Conference in the NCAA. He stayed in office for six years and also joined the staff of East Tennessee State University as an assistant coach in 2017 .

Others

Chuck Eidson began his studies in South Carolina in 1999 when McKie had just graduated. Something similar was repeated in the NBA D-League at the Lowgators and in Gießen, each with a one-year interval. Eidson started his successful European career in Giessen in 2004, which, like McKie, later took him to Israel. Despite the many shared stations, the two never played together in a team, but in the BBL and in Israel at different clubs when they were active in the respective leagues at the same time.

Web links

• Charleston Gamecocks Athletic Hall of Fame - Profiles of the most glorious CSU athletes
• Israeli Basketball Super League | BJ Mckie - player profile on the pages of the Israeli Super League (English)
• BJ McKie on: RealGM website; Marion, IL, 2000-2019. Retrieved February 11, 2019 (in English).
• BJ McKie at: Sports Reference website; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2019. Retrieved February 11, 2019 (in English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gamecocks Announce Four Jersey Requirements for Spring 2019 Season. Retrieved June 11, 2019 . 
2. ^ 2009-10 South Carolina Men's Basketball Media Guide - History. (PDF (14.7 MB)) cstv.com, p. 186ff. , accessed on March 7, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Player of the Month March 2003: Björn-Aubre McKie. SchoenenDunk.de, April 1, 2004, accessed on March 7, 2010 (s.Oliver-BBL press release). 
4. ↑ NN: Last season's top scorer BJ McKie is coming to Trier. ( Memento of September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived from Treveri Basketball website; Trier, July 21, 2003. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
5. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Title allegedly: BJ McKie chosen for ALLSTAR Day. From January 15, 2004 )
6. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Title allegedly: BJ McKie suffers from a slipped disc. From March 7, 2010 )
7. ^ NN: South Carolina Great McKie to Join Radebaugh's Staff. On: Charleston Southern University website; Charleston, SC, June 23, 2011. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
8. ↑ Streamline Technologies | Nashville TN: BJ McKie - Men's Basketball Coaches - Official Site of East Tennessee State Athletics. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .