Clay Tucker
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| Player information | ||
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| Full name | Clay Javen Tucker | |
| birthday | June 14, 1980 (40 years and 78 days) | |
| place of birth | Lima (OH), USA | |
| size | 196 cm | |
| position | Shooting Guard | |
| college | Wisconsin-Milwaukee | |
| Club information | ||
| society | TED Ankara Kolejliler | |
| league | Türkiye Basketbol Ligi | |
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1999–2003 Milwaukee Panthers ( NCAA ) 2003–2004 Sundsvall Dragons 2004 Southern Crescent Lightning ( WBA ) 2004–2005 Utah Snowbears ( ABA ) 2005 MENT BC 2005–2007 Arkansas RimRockers 2007 Le Mans Sarthe Basket 2007–2008 Teramo Basket 2008 BK Chimki 2008 –2009 BK Kyiv 2009 Cajasol Sevilla 2009–2010 DKV Joventut 2010–2011 Real Madrid 2011–2012 Acea Roma 2013 Hacettepe Üniversitesi Since 2013 TED Ankara Kolejliler        
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Clay Javen Tucker (born June 14, 1980 in Lima , Ohio ) is an American basketball player . His preferred position is that of the shooting guard . After playing in Greece , France , Italy , Russia , Ukraine and Spain , Tucker has been playing in Turkey since 2013 . Tucker won the 2008 Russian national cup competition with BK Chimki.
career
Clay Tucker played from 1998 to 2003 for the Milwaukee Panthers , the basketball team of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee , in the NCAA's Horizon League . In 2003 he moved to Europe for the first time, to the Swedish Sundsvall Dragons , but before the end of the season he returned to his homeland, where he was active in various minor leagues until March 2005 . At the end of the season of the Greek A1 Ethniki 2004/05 he had an engagement with MENT BC , but could not prevent relegation. From 2005 to 2007 Tucker played in the NBA D-League for the Arkansas RimRockers before he moved to Europe again in April 2007, where he was active at the end of the season for the French champions Le Mans Sarthe Basket, who, however, could not defend his title. This time Tucker stayed in Europe and played in the 2007/08 season in the Lega Basket Serie A for the Italian first division club from Teramo . But even here he did not stay until the end of the season, but moved to Russia in January 2008, where he was national cup winner and runner-up behind series champion PBK ZSKA Moscow with the club from Khimki . In the 2008/09 season, Tucker first played for the Ukrainian runners-up from Kiev , but he only stayed here until February 2009.
In February 2009 Tucker moved to Spain to Cajasol from Seville in the ACB league , in which he was named "Player of the Week" as the most effective player on matchday 28 . Here he helped the team to stay up, especially with his good three-point rate of over 40% from a distance. After a season at DKV Joventut from Badalona , which, however, missed the play-offs for the championship, Tucker moved to Real Madrid in the summer of 2010 . While they reached the " Final Four " tournament in the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 , but lost both games there, Real, being runner-up in the main round of the 2010/11 season, once again missed entry into the final series for the national championship. After the end of the season, his contract was not renewed and Tucker returned to Italy to join Acea Roma . The Romans missed the play-offs for the Italian championship again and Tucker returned to the ACB league in Spain, where he signed a contract for the club from Valencia in July 2012. The contract with Tucker was canceled before the start of the season.
It was only in early February 2013 that Tucker had his "comeback" and signed a contract with Hacettepe Üniversitesi in the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi for the rest of the season, which he could not save from relegation at the end of the season as penultimate. However, Tucker stayed in Turkey and got a contract for the 2013/14 season with TED Kolejliler from the capital Ankara , who got a place in the second most important European club competition Eurocup 2013/14 .
successes
- Russian Basketball Cup: 2008 (with BK Khimki)
Honors
- MVP of the Horizon League : 2002/03
- NBA D-League All-Star: 2007
Web links
- TUCKER, CLAY - Player profile on the sides of the ULEB ( English )
- Clay Tucker - Turkish Basketball League Player - Player Profile at TBLStat.net
- ACB.COM: Clay Tucker - player profile on the pages of the league ACB ( Spanish )
- Clay Tucker - player profile on basketball-reference.com
- Clay Tucker Stats - Milwaukee Panthers - College season stats on statsheet.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Legabasket: Clay Tucker. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed on July 27, 2012 (Italian, player profile on statistics pages).
- ^ NN: Valencia tabs scoring ace Tucker. On: EuroCup website; Barcelona, July 27, 2012. Accessed March 4, 2019.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tucker, Clay |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tucker, Clay Javen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lima (Ohio) , United States |