Jamal Boykin

Jamal Boykin
Player information
Full name	Jamal Thomas Boykin
birthday	April 27, 1987
place of birth	Los Angeles (CA), USA
size	203 cm
position	Power Forward / Small Forward
college	UC Berkeley
Club information
society	Sendai 89ers
league	bj league
Jersey number	54
Clubs as active
2005–2006 Duke Blue Devils ( NCAA ) 2007–2010 Cal Golden Bears (NCAA) 2010–2011 Gaziantep BB 2011–2012 Omonia Nicosia 2012 Iwate Big Bulls ( bjl ) 2012–2013 Gas Terra Flames 2013 see Oliver Baskets 2013–2014 BK Tscherkasski Mawpy 2014 Nelson Giants 2014–2015 BG Göttingen Since 2015 Sendai 89ers (bjl) 00000 00000 00000 0

Jamal Thomas Boykin (born April 27, 1987 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Boykin began a professional career in which, in addition to stations in Japan and New Zealand, he played primarily in Europe . After a short-term engagement in the basketball Bundesliga in 2013/14 with the s.Oliver Baskets, he played again in the German basketball league for the then newly promoted BG Göttingen in the 2014/15 season , with his brother Ruben Boykin , who was two years older, afterwards . Jamal, however, played again in Japan for the Sendai 89ers in the 2015/16 season.

Career

Upon graduating from Fairfax High School in his hometown, Boykin was named California Gatorade Player of the Year in 2005. He then got a place at Duke University in North Carolina on the east coast, where he played for the renowned university team Blue Devils in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) of the NCAA . In his first year as a freshman , he was only used sporadically. After three games in the second year he was diagnosed with glandular fever , so that he had to suspend the season as "redshirted". Boykin used this break for a change of university, so that the ban following the regulations after the change coincided with his illness break. He returned to the West Coast and continued his studies at the University of California, Berkeley , where he played for the college team Golden Bears in the then Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) of the NCAA. After a second round defeat at the National Invitation Tournament 2008, the Golden Bears were eliminated a year later in the first round of the national NCAA finals tournament against the Terrapins of the University of Maryland, College Park . Another year later, the Golden Bears won against the Cardinals of the University of Louisville in the first round, but were eliminated against the top seeded Blue Devils in the second round, so Boykin his last NCAA game against his former college team and the later Tournament winner graduated.

Boykin signed his first professional engagement in 2010 with the Turkish second division promoted from Gaziantep . The team just missed the march into the top division in 2011, which they should reach a year later. That season, Boykin played in the Republic of Cyprus for Omonia from the capital Nicosia . The team was eliminated after sixth and third from last place of the regular season in the first play-off round for the championship. After the end of the European season, Boykin played in the bj league for the Big Bulls from Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan, but they missed the play-offs. For the 2012/13 season Boykin returned to Europe and played in the Dutch FEB for the Gas Terra Flames from Groningen . After a third place in the regular season, the team lost the play-off semi-final series against eventual title winner ZZ Leiden , who remained undefeated in the play-offs. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Boykin was signed for a limited period by the s.Oliver Baskets from Würzburg after injury problems with other players. Among other things, economic problems after license violations did not allow Boykins to continue to be engaged, so that his contract ended after only three appearances in the basketball league at the end of October 2013. Boykin played first in the super league of Ukraine for the Mawpy club from Cherkassy before he left the country like almost all of his compatriots after the violent escalation following the " Euromaidan ".

In the summer of 2014 Boykin played in the New Zealand league for the former runner-up Fico Finance Giants from Nelson , who narrowly missed another final against the new title winner Wellington Saints . Boykin was voted among the top five players of the season in the "All-Star Five Team". For the basketball Bundesliga 2014/15 Boykin returned to Germany, where he was signed by the first division returnees BG Göttingen, where he played again with his former college team-mate Harper Kamp . Despite a comparatively low budget, the newcomer played strongly and only missed the qualification for the play-offs for the championship on the last matchday. Boykin's operating times had decreased towards the end of the season and he switched back to the bj league in Japan for the new season, where he was active for the 89ers from Sendai . His two older brother Ruben Boykin, on the other hand, who was last active in Japan, switched to BG Göttingen in Germany instead.

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Jamal Boykin - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Jamal Boykin Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com - Profile with NCAA statistics ( English )
• Jamal Boykin Bio - Profile on the sports websites of the University of California (2010)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gatorade Player of the Year. Gatorade , accessed on December 25, 2014 (English, filter to “boys basketball”, “2004 - 2005” and “California”). 
2. ↑ Bobby Colton: "Where are they now?" Duke basketball edition: Transfers - Jamal Boykin. (No longer available online.) Duke University : DukeChronicle.com, Aug 7, 2013, archived from the original on Dec 25, 2014 ; accessed on December 25, 2014 . 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.  
3. ↑ Jamal Boykin Transfers to Cal from Duke. (No longer available online.) University of California, Berkeley , January 8, 2007, archived from the original on December 25, 2014 ; accessed on December 25, 2014 . 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.  
4. ^ Sid : Würzburg separates from Boykin. Focus , October 31, 2013, accessed December 25, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Hawks v Saints Final: Webster wins MVP. basketball.org.nz, July 4, 2014, accessed December 25, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Rupert Fabig: Center and artist Jamal Boykin for BG Göttingen a real stroke of luck. Göttinger Tageblatt , August 20, 2014, accessed on December 25, 2014 .