Dru Joyce

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Basketball player
Dru Joyce
Player information
birthday January 29, 1985
place of birth Akron , United States
size 182 cm
position Point guard
college Akron
Clubs as active
2003-2007 United StatesUnited StatesAkron Zips ( NCAA )
2007-2009 GermanyGermany ratiopharm Ulm
2009-2010 PolandPoland Anwil Włocławek
2010–2012 GermanyGermany TBB Trier
2012-2014 GermanyGermany EWE Baskets Oldenburg
2014-2015 GermanyGermany Basketball Löwen Braunschweig
2015-2016 GermanyGermany s.Oliver Baskets
2016-2017 BelarusBelarus Zmoki Minsk
2017 GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich
2017 FranceFrance AS Monaco
2017-2018 FranceFrance Limoges CSP
2018-2019 GermanyGermany Science City Jena

Dru Joyce (born January 29, 1985 in Akron , Ohio ) is a retired American basketball player . After studying in his hometown, he played professional basketball in Europe for 12 years before retiring in 2019. The point guard is with 1,714 assists the second best assist provider in the history of basketball league .

Career

In high school he played a. a. together with LeBron James in the team and won the national high school championship there. During his studies played Joyce for the college team, the University of Akron in the NCAA Division I. The Zips he was after his rookie year three seasons best assist provider, reaching over four seasons in addition to more than 1,000 scored points also more than 500 assists , which he tops the Zips leaderboard in assists.

After completing his studies, he and his teammate Romeo Travis of the same age were hired by the German Bundesliga basketball team ratiopharm from Ulm . After two seasons, the paths of longtime teammate, as Travis to league rivals separated Walter Tigers Tubingen changed while Joyce a contract in Polish Włocławek signed. After a season in the Polska Liga Koszykówki , he returned to the BBL in 2010 and signed a contract with TBB in Trier . In June 2011 Joyce extended his contract in Trier for another year.

For the 2012/2013 season Joyce moved within the league and signed a contract with EWE Baskets Oldenburg . He received a contract there until 2014. This was not renewed, so Joyce and the club separated in the summer of 2014. In the same summer he joined the Basketball Löwen Braunschweig .

After a year in Braunschweig, Joyce was unable to agree on a contract extension with those responsible and switched to s.Oliver Baskets in Würzburg . There he received a one-year contract.

In the 2015/2016 season, Joyce was selected as the starter at the BBL All-Star Game on January 9, 2016 in the Bamberg Brose Arena . For Joyce it means the first All-Star participation. At the same time he became the first Würzburg player to be in the starting five of the All-Star game .

On January 15, 2016, Dru Joyce became the player in Bundesliga history with 1,322 assists who gave the most assists, but had to cede this title to Jared Jordan on February 25, 2017.

In the summer of 2016, captain Dru Joyce and the s.Oliver Baskets Würzburg parted ways after the first year. Joyce moved to Zmoki Minsk and took on the next challenge in Belarus before returning to Germany in March 2017 and signing a contract with FC Bayern Munich until the end of the 2016/17 season. At the end of the season he left Germany and joined AS Monaco in the French Ligue Nationale de Basket . After playing only six games for the Monegasque, he moved to league rivals Limoges CSP until the end of the season .

At the beginning of September 2018 he returned to Germany and received a two-month contract with Bundesliga club Science City Jena , which he then extended until the end of the season. With 10.1 points and 6.3 assists per game, he was a top performer in the Saalestädtern, but could not prevent relegation at the end of the season. In August 2019 it was announced that he end his career as an assistant coach at the Cleveland State University would go.

Season statistics

Legend
  GP Matches played ( Games Played )  MPG  Graduated minutes per game ( Minutes per game )  PPG  Points per game ( points per game )
 RPG  Rebounds per game ( rebounds per game )  APG  Assists per game ( assists per game )  SPG  Steals per game ( steals per game )
 BPG  Blocks per game ( blocks per game )        
season team GP MPG PPG RPG APG SPG BPG
2014/15 Braunschweig 33 32.10 12.3 3.2 6.0 0.9 0.0
2015/16 Wurzburg 34 32.30 11.3 2.5 6.9 0.9 0.1
2016/17 Minsk 18th 36.26 14.2 3.8 6.4 1.7
2017 Munich

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Top Players. In: statistik.easycredit-bbl.de. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ GoZips.com: 2009-10 Men's Basketball Media Guide - Records and History  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) PDF file (2 MB), p. 75, published 11/01/2009, accessed on August 17, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gozips.com  
  3. ↑ TBB-Trier.de: Complete squad: Dru Joyce is the new point guard of the TBB, press release of the TBB Trier of August 17th, 2010 ( Memento of September 12th, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Dru Joyce directs EWE Baskets structure  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ewe-baskets.de  
  5. ↑ s.Oliver Baskets: Dru Joyce starts with Beko BBL ALLSTAR GAME  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at www.soliver-baskets.de. Retrieved December 19, 2015.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.soliver-baskets.de  
  6. ↑ Beko BBL: Dru Joyce All Time Assist Leader: Congratulations from buddy LeBron James and ex-teammate Per Günther! . January 16, 2016. Online at www.beko-bbl.de. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  7. ↑ Main Post : Jake Odum comes for Dru Joyce . May 30, 2016. Online at www.mainpost.de. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
  8. ↑ a b Dru Joyce signs until the end of the season - FC Bayern Basketball. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 15, 2017 ; accessed on March 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcb-basketball.de
  9. ↑ Barbara Youinou: Dru Joyce III et Monaco une association placée sous le signe de l'ambition - BasketActu.com. In: basketactu.com. September 8, 2017, accessed September 8, 2018 (French).
  10. ↑ Sacha Rutard: Le meneur Dru Joyce III (ex-Monaco) signe à Limoge. October 30, 2017, accessed September 8, 2018 (French).
  11. ↑ https://m.otz.de/web/mobil/jena/detail/-/specific/Science-City-Jena-holt-Routinier-Joyce-716530042
  12. ↑ http://baskets-jena.de/newsarchiv/tickets/tx_news/ein-mann-ein-wort-dru-joyce-bleibt-science-city-jena-erhalten/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction% 5D = detail & cHash = ae71ef895819d76fd706bc1dfe49ad3e
  13. ↑ Dru Joyce is apparently ending his career and becomes a college assistant. In: basketball.de. August 8, 2019, accessed August 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Joyce, Dru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Akron , Ohio, USA