Keith Gray (basketball coach)

Keith Gray
Player information
Full name	Keith Raynard Gray
birthday	March 22, 1963
place of birth	Flint (MI), USA
size	188 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college	Detroit Mercy
NBA draft	1985 , Pick 150, Washington Bullets
Clubs as active
1982–1985 Detroit Titans ( NCAA ) 1985–1986 Detroit Spirits ( CBA ) 1986–1987 Ginebra San Miguel 1987–1991 TSV Hagen 1991–1992 BG Ludwigsburg 1992–1993 TuS Herten 1993–1994 SV 03 Tübingen 1994–1996 TSK uniVersa Bamberg 1996 –1997 Fontanafredda Siena 1997–1998 Apollon Patras 1998–2002 HERZOGtel Trier
Clubs as coaches
2002–2003 TSK X-Rays Würzburg 2003–2004 USC Freiburg 2005–2006 COOCOON Baskets Weiden 2006–2007 ETB Wohnbau Baskets Essen 2007 Schalke 04 Basketball 2008–2009 TVG Baskets Trier 2009 BSW Sixers 00000 00000

Keith Gray (born March 22, 1963 in Flint , Michigan ) is a German basketball coach who grew up in the United States . As a player, Gray was active in the basketball league and in Italy and Greece for more than ten years after early positions in the CBA and in the Philippines .

Player career

The 1.88 m tall Gray played during his studies in the USA for the Titans of the University of Detroit Mercy , where he played together with Gregory Wendt , who later played in the German basketball league, in his final season . From 1987 he went basket hunting in Europe, where he first played for TSV Hagen in the 2nd Bundesliga, which he led to promotion to the basketball Bundesliga in the 87/88 season and then represented in the first division before he was active with Bamberg and HERZOGtel from Trier for other German Bundesliga clubs. With 65 points in a game, Gray holds the current Bundesliga record for the highest point yield of a single player in a game, which he set up on March 22, 1989 in the 142: 84 victory of TSV 1860 Hagen against SG Braunschweig. With Trier he also won the DBB Cup in 2001 .

Coaching career

After the end of his long playing career in 2002, Gray immediately took over a coaching position in the top German division at the X-Rays in Würzburg . In March of the following year he was replaced by Aaron McCarthy as coach and Gray took over the coaching position for the former first division club USC Freiburg in the 2nd Bundesliga group south for the following season . There the collaboration was ended after a season.

Gray then worked as a youth coach in Trier before the COOCOON Baskets from Weiden in the Upper Palatinate signed him for the 2nd Bundesliga 2005/06 . After a decent start to the season, Gray was released in early February 2006 after a series of defeats by the second division promoted team. A few weeks later he was committed by the ETB SW from Essen from the northern group of the second division. He did not succeed in preventing the sporting relegation, so that the black and whites played as ETB Wohnbau Essen in the 2006/07 season in the 1st Regionalliga West. After a place in the midfield of the regional league, he received an offer from the district neighbor Schalke 04 and switched to the ProA for the 2007/08 season , which replaced the previous regional groups in the second division. Gray was unsuccessful here and the contract was terminated in November of that year.

For the 2008/09 season Gray took over the coaching position at TVG Baskets Trier, the regional league reserve of the first division club TBB Trier , for which he was active as a player in his last years. In the following season 2009/10 he then took over the coaching position at regional league team BSW Sixers, the cooperation partner of the first division club MBC Weißenfels . After it was foreseeable that the ambitious expectations of the club would not be fulfilled, the contract with Gray was prematurely terminated here too.

He then returned to his home country and worked, among other things, as a youth coach. In October 2012, he coached the boys' team at Southwestern Academy High School in his hometown of Flint.

Web links

• Keith Gray - player profile on the statistics pages of the basketball leagues (as of 2002)
• Legabasket: Keith Gray - Profile on the Serie A statistics pages (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to information from the German BBL, his month of birth is March, in statistics from Lega Basket Serie A his month of birth is given as January
2. ↑ Detroit Titans Athletics - 1984-85 Team to be Honored Saturday. University of Detroit Mercy , November 30, 2010, accessed February 25, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Keith Gray is the new head coach at X-RAYS. Schoenen-Dunk.de, July 5, 2002, accessed on March 7, 2010 (for media information, see Oliver Würzburg). 
4. ^ TB Weiden: Keith Gray new trainer. (No longer available online.) DieJungeLiga.de, May 25, 2005, archived from the original on September 9, 2011 ; Retrieved on March 7, 2010 (Medien-Info TB Weiden). 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.  
5. ↑ Florian Kirchner: Preview 18th matchday: Weiden takes the "ultima ratio": Glaser replaces Gray. (No longer available online.) DieJungeLiga.de, February 3, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 7, 2010 .  ( 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.    
6. ↑ ETB Schwarz-Weiß Essen: New head coach. (No longer available online.) DieJungeLiga.de, February 21, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on March 7, 2010 (Medien-Info ETB Schwarz-Weiß Essen).  ( 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.    
7. ↑ Keith Gray is the new S04 coach. Schalke 04 Basketball , April 11, 2007, accessed March 7, 2010 (media information). 
8. ^ Separation of Pittman and Gray / defeat against Bremen. Schalke 04 Basketball , November 18, 2007, accessed on March 7, 2010 (media information). 
9. ↑ Christian Kattner: Decision for the youth. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , June 9, 2009, accessed on February 27, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Thomas Schaarschmidt: Sixers pull the emergency brake. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , December 10, 2009, accessed on February 27, 2013 . 
11. ↑ Eric Woodyard: Flint Central legend Keith Gray named new boys basketball coach at Southwestern Academy. MLive.com, October 25, 2012, accessed February 27, 2013 .