Chris Boucher

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Basketball player
Chris Boucher
Player information
birthday 11th January 1993 (age 27)
place of birth Castries , St. Lucia
size 206 cm
position Power forward
college University of Oregon
Northwest College
NBA draft 2017 , not selected
Club information
society Toronto Raptors
league NBA
Jersey number 25th
Clubs as active
2017-2018 United StatesUnited States Golden State Warriors
2017-2018 United StatesUnited States→ Santa Cruz Warriors ( G-League )
2018– CanadaCanada Toronto Raptors
2018-2019 United StatesUnited States→ Raptors 905 (G-League)

Christopher Boucher (born January 11, 1993 in Castries , St. Lucia ) is a Canadian basketball player who plays for the Toronto Raptors in the NBA .

career

Boucher was born in St. Lucia in the Caribbean before coming to Canada , where he grew up in Montréal and played ice hockey , athletics and soccer as a teenager . At the age of 16 he dropped out of school and later worked in Montréal as an assistant cook and dishwasher.

He only started basketball at the age of 18. In March 2012, he applied for a place at the Alma Academy in Montréal, which was being established at the time, but was not accepted because those responsible believed that they knew all the physically tall players in the city and therefore his stated height of 2.02 meters doubted. In July 2012, Boucher took part in a basketball tournament, was discovered there by a scout from the Alma Academy and ultimately played for the school team in the 2012/13 season.

Boucher went to the United States in 2013 and played for the New Mexico Junior College team in the 2013-14 season. In 32 games he achieved an average of 11.8 points and 6.7 rebounds. The university also took part in the game operations of the NJCAA, the association of "two-year" universities, as did Northwest College in Wyoming , for whose team Boucher played in the 2014/15 season. There he drew attention to himself with strong performances, achieved averages of 22.5 points, 11.8 rebounds and 4.7 blocked throws in 34 games and was named Player of the Year in the first NJCAA division.

In 2015 Boucher moved to the University of Oregon in the first division of the NCAA , for whose team the Canadian had 69 missions up to 2017, in which he averaged 12.0 points, collected 6.8 rebounds and blocked 2.7 opposing throws. With nine blocks in one game (in November 2015 against Arkansas State) and 110 blocks in one season (2015/16) Boucher set records for the team at the University of Oregon. His 189 blocks in total earned him second place in the university's “all-time best list”. In March 2017 he tore a cruciate ligament , which for Boucher not only meant the end of the 2016/17 game year, but also his time as a college player.

In the NBA draft process in 2017, no team decided to secure the rights to the Canadian, but he still managed to make the leap into the North American professional league: While he was still doing advanced training as a result of his cruciate ligament rupture, the then reigning NBA Champion, the Golden State Warriors , with a "two-way contract" that allowed him to play in the NBA and the NBA G-League . Boucher played an NBA game for Golden State in the 2017/18 season and was also used in the Santa Cruz Warriors training team in the NBA G-League (20 games: 11.8 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.1 Blocks per game). In June 2018, Boucher was removed from the Golden State Warriors roster.

The Toronto Raptors signed him in October 2018, and this agreement also included the opportunity to gain gaming experience in both the NBA for Toronto and the training league with the club's affiliated Raptors 905 . In December 2018 he set a new record for the Raptors 905 Missisauga with 47 points scored in one game. In doing so, he broke a record he had set himself at 37 earlier in the season. He scored an average of 27.2 points, 11.4 rebounds and 4.1 blocks in the G-League in 28 appearances for Missisauga over the course of the game year and was named the best player and best defender of the 2018/19 season. He won the NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors in the 2018/19 game year, but only made two short appearances in the playoffs.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://nwc.edu/mens_basketball/roster/past/detail.html?id=cc254388-a587-43d7-9297-9266da01e880
  2. ↑ Net nets NWC foreign flavor | November 19, 2014 | In the News | Trapper Men's Basketball | Northwest College. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Peter Mendelsohn · CBC Sports · December 12, 2018: From washing dishes to the NBA: The unlikely rise of Raptors' Chris Boucher | CBC Sports. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ NJCAA: Chris Boucher # 11 F New Mexico. In: njcaa.org. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ NJCAA: Christopher Boucher # 23 Northwest. In: njcaa.org. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 2014-15 Spalding® NJCAA Players of the Year. April 2, 2015, accessed February 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Chris Boucher - Men's Basketball. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Oregon Ducks, 2018-19 Record Book. In: University of Oregon Athletics. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Ducks' Boucher has torn ACL, out for season. March 12, 2017, accessed February 4, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Chris Boucher signs NBA contract after going undrafted. Retrieved February 4, 2019 (American English).
  11. ↑ Chris Boucher signs with Golden State as undrafted free agent. Retrieved February 4, 2019 (American English).
  12. ↑ Official NBA bio of Chris Boucher. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Warriors Waive Chris Boucher. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Canada's Chris Boucher secures two-way contract with Raptors - Sportsnet.ca. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Chris Boucher breaks Raptors 905 scoring record with 47 points | NBA.com. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  16. ↑ MVP and Defensive Player of the Year Chris Boucher Headlines 2018-19 All-NBA G League First Team and All-Defensive Team. Accessed May 1, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Chris Boucher: visite d'un champion à Montréal-Nord (Raptors). July 26, 2019, accessed October 17, 2019 (French).
  18. ↑ Chris Boucher. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .


personal data
SURNAME Boucher, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boucher, Christopher (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Castries , St. Lucia