Brandon Gay

Brandon Gay
Player information
birthday	August 8, 1982 (38 years 20 days)
place of birth	Houston (TX), USA
size	203 cm
position	Small forward / power forward
college	San Diego
Club information
society	Szolnoki Olaj KK
league	NB I / A / Adriatic League
Jersey number	9
Clubs as active
2001 Southern Miss Golden Eagles ( NCAA ) 2002–2003 SCCC Saints (NJCAA) 2003–2005 San Diego Toreros (NCAA) 2005–2007 TBB Trier 2007–2010 Antwerp Giants 2010–2011 RBC Verviers-Pepinster 2011 BK Sochumi Since 2011 Szolnoki Olaj KK00000 00000 0

Brandon Gay (born August 8, 1982 in Houston , Texas ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Gay played as a professional in Europe. After two years with the German club TBB Trier, he played four seasons in Belgium before coming to Szolnoki Olaj KK from Hungary via Georgia, for whom he has played since 2011 and with whom he reached the Final Four of the EuroChallenge 2011/12 .

Career

After high school, Gay enrolled at the University of Southern Mississippi in 2000 . After he had exposed in the first year of championship games of the college team Golden Eagles , he decided the following year after a few games to leave the college. He continued his studies at Seward County Community College in Liberal (Kansas) , where he played successfully for their college team Saints in the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association (NJCAA) and was named MVP of the Jayhawk West Conference in 2002/03 has been. He then continued his studies at the University of San Diego and was again active in Division I of the NCAA when he played for the college team Toreros in the West Coast Conference (WCC) for the next two years . The toreros, who had previously won the WCC championship tournament for the first time in 2003 and had qualified for the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship , could not repeat this success in the following two seasons and thus also not qualify for a final round.

In 2005 Gay began a professional career in Europe with the German first division club TBB Trier in the basketball league . In the 2005/06 season they narrowly missed entry into the play-offs for the German championship because of the poorer direct comparison . After a rather disappointing second season with the TBB, Gay moved in 2007 to the Belgian cup winner Giants in Antwerp . After a disappointing first season in which they missed the championship play-offs, they were eliminated twice in the semi-final series of the championship play-offs. For the 2010/11 season, Gay moved to league rivals RBC from Pepinster , who had previously only just missed the play-offs, but failed again at the end of the season to get into the play-offs. For the following season, Gay moved to BK Sochumi from Georgia , who played in the capital Tbilisi . He had previously committed other well-known players with gay compatriots Marc Salyers and Frank Robinson . However, the qualification for the EuroChallenge 2011/12 clearly failed , which led to disputes over the payment of the " legionaries ". In the end, the named players were released.

After the “Georgian adventure” at the end of 2011, Gay joined the Hungarian master Olaj KK from Szolnok . With this team, Gay was now exceptionally successful for a Hungarian team in the EuroChallenge 2011/12 and reached the Final Four tournament with it , for which the club applied as the host and hosted the tournament in Debrecen . Here you failed just barely against the eventual tournament winner Beşiktaş Milangaz in the semifinals with four points difference and finished fourth. After another double in the national championships, they were just eliminated from the top 16 teams in the EuroChallenge 2012/13 .

Web links

• Brandon Gay | EuroChallenge 2013 - player profile on the websites of FIBA Europa ( English )
• Brandon Gay Stats - San Diego Toreros - NCAA stats on statsheet.com
• Brandon Gay Profile - USDTOREROS.COM - Profile on the University of San Diego Sports Websites