Je'Kel Foster

Je'Kel Foster
Player information
Full name	Je'Kel Reshar Foster
birthday	July 22, 1983
place of birth	Natchez , United States
size	191 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college	Ohio State
Clubs as active
2002–2003 Howard Hawks (NJCAA) 2003–2004 Chipola Indians (NJCAA) 2004–2006 Ohio State Buckeyes ( NCAA ) 2006–2007 EnBW Ludwigsburg 2007–2008 Paris-Levallois Basket 2008–2010 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 2010–2011 Vanoli Cremona 2011– 2012 FC Bayern Munich 2012 Spirou BC Charleroi 2012–2013 ALBA Berlin 2013 JSF Nanterre 2014 Sidigas Avellino 2014 Homenetmen Beirut 2015 medi Bayreuth 2015–2016 Guaros de Lara 2016 Bàsquet Manresa 2016–2018 CRD Libolo 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000

Je'Kel Reshar Foster (born July 22, 1983 in Natchez , Mississippi ) is an American basketball player . In 2009 Foster won the German championship with EWE Baskets Oldenburg and in 2013 with Alba Berlin the German league cup competition BBL-Pokal 2013 . He played a total of 199 Bundesliga games.

Career

Foster began his studies at Howard Junior College in Big Spring, Texas . After a year, his basketball coach Chris Jans moved to Chipola Junior College in Marianna (Florida) and took Foster with him. For further studies, Foster then moved to Ohio State University , where he played for the college team Buckeyes in the NCAA for two years until 2006.

After his time with the Ohio State Buckeyes, Foster was not selected in the 2006 NBA draft and instead signed a contract with German first division club EnBW Ludwigsburg. There he was considered one of the most important players in his team, which also played a great 2006/07 season thanks to him . In recognition of this, he was appointed to the southern selection for the All-Star game and was voted BBL Newcomer of the Year .

Foster was a player who can successfully hit throws in a row from all positions if he has found his throwing rhythm. In addition, his employers value Foster's leadership and work ethic. After a season in the French LNB Pro A , in which he and his team Paris-Levallois were relegated to the top of the league table, penultimate, he returned to the German basketball league and won with the EWE Baskets from Oldenburg in the 2008/09 season the German championship . In the last seconds of the fifth and decisive game of the play-off finals series against Telekom Baskets Bonn , Foster managed a steal that ultimately decided the game and thus the championship in favor of Oldenburg with 71:70.

In the 2009/10 season , the defending champion EWE Baskets moved into the play-offs as first in the main round, but surprisingly lost in four games in the first round against the Phantoms Braunschweig . In the 2010/11 season, Foster was then active in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A for Vanoli-Braga from Cremona , which, however, missed the play-offs for the championship. For the 2011/12 season , the ambitious first division promoted FC Bayern Munich brought him back to Germany. But even this was eliminated with Foster in the first play-off round for the championship.

Before the start of the season of the following season, FC Bayern Munich announced that it had given Foster a termination without notice, as he had repeatedly appeared on non-mandatory dates despite being requested to do so. As a result, Foster joined the Belgian runner-up Spirou BC Charleroi . After Vule Avdalović was injured , Foster was brought back to the German Bundesliga by Alba Berlin in mid-December 2012. In front of a home crowd, they won the 2013 BBL Cup in 2013 , but were eliminated early in the championship in the first play-off round, although they were the most successful German team in the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 .

For the following season 2013/14 Foster went back to France, where he signed a contract with the reigning champions "Jeunesse sportive des Fontenelles" from Nanterre , where he played again with his former Berlin teammate Ali Traoré . After leaving the ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 , Foster's contract ended at the end of the year and he was signed by the Italian first division club Sidigas from Avellino at the beginning of February 2014 , for which he completed twelve appearances, but made it into the play-offs for the twelfth place missed Italian championship. After a short detour in Lebanon within the scope of FIBA Asia at Homenetmen from Beirut , Foster joined the German first division club BBC medi from Bayreuth in January 2015 , with whom he finished 16th and third from bottom at the end of the 2014/15 basketball Bundesliga thus achieved relegation.

In the 2015/16 season, Foster played professionally in South America for the first time and was active in ten games for the Guaros from Barquisimeto in the state of Lara in Venezuela . While the Guaros won the title in the FIBA Liga de las Américas in March 2016, Foster had previously moved to the Spanish ACB league to ICL Bàsquet from Manresa . With the Catalans , he reached only the 16th and third from last place in the table in 13 appearances, but again enough to keep the league in the top Spanish league. Foster then moved to Angola on the African continent , where he played for the Clube Recreativo Desportivo (CRD) from Libolo from 2016 to 2018 . After his compatriot Jason Cain , with whom Foster never played, he is the second former Bundesliga professional who also played in Bayreuth and later in Angola.

Web links

• FOSTER, JEKEL - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• easyCredit BBL - Je Kel Foster - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Je'Kel Foster - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• Je'Kel Foster Profile - Profile on Ohio State University's Sports Websites

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 5717 Je'kel FOSTER. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved August 28, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Triumphs for Simon and Foster ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ ALBA BERLIN Basketballteam GmbH: Welcome, Je'kel Foster! Retrieved August 28, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Je'Kel Foster - Nanterre - Joueurs. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed February 5, 2014 (French, player profile). 
5. ^ Leonhard Kazda: Basketball: Oldenburg wins the championship four seconds before the end. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 25, 2009, accessed December 15, 2012 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Legabasket: Je'Kel Foster. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed October 3, 2013 (Italian, player profile). 
7. ↑ FC Bayern separates from Je'Kel Foster ( Memento from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Welcome, Je'kel Foster! ( Memento from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ JSF NANTERRE lands Foster, Gladyr. ULEB , October 1, 2013, archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; accessed on October 3, 2013 . 
10. ↑ La Sidigas Avellino ingaggia la guardia Je'Kel Foster. Lega Basket Serie A , February 5, 2014, accessed on February 5, 2014 (Italian, media info Sidigas Avellino). 
11. ^ Sid : Bayreuth gets Foster as Bailey replacement. (No longer available online.) Rheinische Post , January 13, 2015, archived from the original on September 19, 2016 ; Retrieved September 19, 2016 . 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.  
12. ↑ Player statistics for Jekel Foster. SportingPulse.com, accessed on September 19, 2016 (English, official statistics from the Venezuelan LPB). 
13. ↑ L'ICL Manresa incorpora l'exterior Je'kel Foster. Bàsquet Manresa , March 1, 2016, accessed on September 19, 2016 (Spanish, media info). 
14. ↑ Je'Kel Foster. Liga ACB , accessed September 19, 2016 (Spanish, player profile). 
15. ↑ Je'Kel Foster Basketball Player Profile, Clube Recreativo e Desportivo do Libolo, Ohio St., News, D2 stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - afrobasket. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .