Lee Jeka

Lee Jeka
Player information
birthday	June 8, 1983
place of birth	Melbourne, Australia
size	193 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
Clubs as active
2001–2005 Western / Werribee Devils 2003–2004 Brisbane Bullets 2004–2007 Cuxhaven BasCats 2007 Lausanne Morges 2007–2008 SC Lusitânia 2008–2009 USC Freiburg 2009–2010 Cuxhaven BasCats 2010–2011 see Oliver Baskets 2011–2012 Saar-Pfalz Braves 2012 –2013 Science City Jena 2013–2014 SC Rist Wedel 2015–2016 Hume City Broncos 00000

Lee Jeka (born June 8, 1983 in Melbourne , Victoria ) is an Australian basketball player who also has British citizenship . Jeka first played in the Australian Basketball Association's Big V championship and also made individual games in the National Basketball League professional league before moving to Europe in 2004. Here he played except for one season in which he was active in the Swiss national basketball league and the highest Portuguese league, in the German 2nd basketball league and its successor ProA . With the Cuxhaven BasCats 2010 and the Würzburg Baskets 2011 he was twice runner-up in the ProA and was also named Player of the Year in the ProA 2010/11 .

Career

Jeka began his career with the Western Devils from the Melbourne suburb of Werribee , for whom he played between 2001 and 2005 in the Big V championship of the Australian Basketball Association. Between 2003 and 2004 he was also a member of the professional team Bullets from Brisbane , for which he played individual games in the National Basketball League , which, analogous to the season dates in the northern hemisphere, plays its games in the Australian summer. At the beginning of the second BBL season 2004/05 Jeka signed a contract with Rot-Weiß Cuxhaven, who had been promoted as a newcomer to the second German Bundesliga group north. After relegation, Jeka returned to the Werribee Devils in the European summer before he then focused on his basketball career in Europe. In the 2005/06 season he achieved a midfield placement with the Cuxhaveners now trading as BasCats, which could be increased in the 2006/07 season with a third place.

With the abolition of the regional groups of the second division and the introduction of the ProA , Jeka moved in 2007 to the Swiss national basketball league at Morges Basket in Lausanne . In December 2007, however, he moved on and went to Portugal for the former league cup winner Sport Clube Lusitânia from Angra do Heroísmo , who, however, occupied penultimate place in the table at the end of the season and withdrew from the top division despite the league being increased. Jeka then returned to Germany in 2008 and played in the lower class season ProB of the second division for the former first division club USC from Freiburg im Breisgau , which, however , ranked in the ProB 2008/09 in the lower third of the table. For the ProA 2008/09 he returned to Cuxhaven, which after the runner-up in the ProA 2007 had a rather mediocre ProA 2007/08 . With Jeka, the Cuxhaven team were able to win a runner-up again in 2009, but not advance to the top division because they could not meet the economic requirements for the necessary licensing in the basketball league .

In 2010, Jeka moved to the ProA newcomer Würzburg Baskets, who had succeeded the former first division club DJK Würzburg . With this club, Jeka won another runner-up in the ProA 2010/11 behind the huge favorites FC Bayern Munich , who had filled his squad with numerous national players and former top division players under German national coach Dirk Bauermann . The highlight was a live television broadcast of the top match between table leader Munich and pursuer Würzburg on Bayerischer Rundfunk , which over 12,000 viewers experienced on site in the Munich Olympic Hall . The live broadcast on free-to-air television was a novelty and the over 10,000 viewers meant a record number of viewers for a second division basketball game. After Würzburg had won the first leg, they lost this game 75:82, with Jeka being the top scorer of the game. After the Würzburg team marched through from the ProB to the top division of the basketball league , Jeka was named ProA Player of the Year at the end of the season.

After the promotion, however, Jeka remained unconsidered for the first division squad of the Würzburg under the new coach John Patrick and he again signed a contract in the ProA 2011/12 with the Saar-Palatinate Braves in Homburg . However, the fifth in the previous season had a disappointing season and ended up on the penultimate place in the table, which would have been enough to keep the league from a sporting point of view. But after organizational problems, they then signed off from professional gaming operations. Jeka then switched to league rivals Science City from Jena , who missed promotion to the top division in the ProA 2012/13 after a seventh place in the main round in the semi-final series of the play-offs against the Düsseldorf Baskets . While the Düsseldorfer did not get a license for the basketball league afterwards despite sporting promotion, Jeka followed his fiancée to Hamburg and joined the third division club SC Rist from Wedel in the ProB . With the Wedelern he reached the semi-finals of the ProB in the 2013/14 season and then went back to Australia, where he still played for the Hume City Broncos and in the 2016 season from the website australiabasket.com to Player of the Year in the Big League V was chosen.

Web links

• Lee Jeka (SC Rist Wedel) - player profile on the statistics pages of the basketball leagues
• Lee Jeka Basketball Player Profile - player profile on eurobasket.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} ProA - Awards: Doreth / Jeka / Loibl. (No longer available online.) DieJungeLiga.de, April 22, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 31, 2013 (media info).  ( 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.    
2. ↑ Where Are They Now? - Werribee Basketball Association. SportingPulse.com, accessed January 31, 2013 (Overview of former Werribees players). 
3. ↑ Bavaria keep Würzburg at a distance. Kicker-Sportmagazin , February 20, 2011, accessed on January 31, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Sebastian Finis: League Report: "Bavaria is now a hot spot". (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , August 1, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on January 31, 2013 (season presentation see Oliver Baskets 2012/13).  ( 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.    
5. ↑ Lee Jeka - "This man is awesome". Hamburger Abendblatt , July 12, 2013, accessed on July 20, 2013 . 
6. ↑ australiabasket.com