Peyton Siva

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Basketball player
Peyton Siva
Siva 2011 in the Cardinals jersey
Player information
Full name Peyton Robert Siva Jr.
Nickname Pey-pey
birthday October 24, 1990 (29 years and 313 days)
place of birth Seattle , Washington , United States
size 183 cm
position Point guard
college Louisville
NBA draft 2013 , 56th Pick, Detroit Pistons
Club information
society Alba Berlin
league Basketball Bundesliga
Jersey number 3
Clubs as active
2009–2013 Louisville Cardinals ( NCAA ) 2013–2014 Detroit Pistons 2013–2014 → Fort Wayne Mad Ants 2014–2015 Erie BayHawks 2015–2016 JuveCaserta Basket Since 2016 Alba BerlinUnited StatesUnited States
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Peyton Robert Siva junior (born October 24, 1990 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American basketball player . While studying in his home country, Siva won the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship with his team Louisville Cardinals in 2013 and was individually awarded the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award . After he was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the 2013 NBA Draft , he could not prevail there and came to Europe via the NBA Development League (D-League). After a season in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A , Siva plays in the 2016/17 basketball Bundesliga for Alba Berlin in Germany .

Career

Siva had an eventful childhood and adolescence, as his father had drug problems and his mother tried to support the family with several jobs at the same time. At the age of 15, he was the youngest child in the family, in which his (half) siblings had already caught criminal attention, and was able to prevent his father from attempting suicide in a crack house. Siva put his energy into sports, where he became an exceptional player in the school team of Franklin High School in his hometown, both in basketball and in American football , for which he had initially rejected as too small and skinny. This helped him stay out of trouble, and he won the 4A Conference state championships with the school team as a freshman in basketball and the 3A Conference in his senior year as a senior . He was then in 2009 as Gatorade Player of the Year award in Washington State and for the prestigious McDonald's All-American Game nominated school player in the country of the best high, which he in the Ostauswahl with DeMarcus Cousins and Game- MVP Derrick Favors won .

After his school days, Siva got a scholarship from the University of Louisville , where he played in the Cardinals university team under coach Rick Pitino at the time in the old Big East Conference . In his sophomore season, Siva became a starter and reached the final of the 2011 Big East championship tournament against the huskies of the University of Connecticut , which was lost to Kemba Walker and Siva's future Berlin teammate Niels Giffey , among others . who would then also win the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship . In the following two years, the Cardinals won the Big East championship tournament and Siva was the first player after Patrick Ewing in 1984 and 1985 and the second player ever to be named Most Outstanding Player (MOP) of the Big East final tournament twice in a row. In the national NCAA finals, the Cardinals with the participation of Siva had initially performed disappointingly and in 2010 and 2011 lost their opening game; In 2011 there was even a real upset when the Cardinals played their first game against the Eagles of Morehead State University for the second time after 2009 . While the Cardinals were able to win the game as the top seeded team after a convincing second half in 2009 without Siva, they lost the game in 2011 as the number four seeded team 61:62 against an opponent in which the later world champion Kenneth Faried at 17 Rebounds stood out.

Siva holds the 2013 NCAA trophy, second from left in the interview with coach Pitino

In Siva's last two seasons, however , the Cardinals were also able to convince in the NCAA finals and each reached the prestigious Final Four . They lost the semi-final game 61:69 in 2012 against the top seeded eventual title winner Wildcats of the University of Kentucky , who had previously been successfully trained by Pitino in the 1990s and are the arch-rivals of the Cardinals from their own state. On the way to winning the 2013 title, Louisville impressed as the top seeded team in the region, winning their four games up to the Final Four by at least nine points, including a one-sided 85:63 win in the Elite Eight over the renowned Blue Devils from Duke University by national coach Mike Krzyzewski . After the semi-final victory over the Shockers of Wichita State University , Siva was finally able to crown his NCAA career with the title win after the 82:76 final victory over the Wolverines of the University of Michigan . In addition to his teammate Luke Hancock as MOP, Peyton Siva was also designated in the all-tournament team of the NCAA finals. A few days earlier, Siva had already received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award for best college player, no more than 6 feet tall .

Despite his glorious college career, Siva was selected late in the second round at position 56 by the Pistons from Detroit in the subsequent entry draft of the NBA's highest endowed professional league . After Jason Terry and Aaron Brooks , Siva was the third guard from Seattle's Franklin High to make the leap to the NBA in just over a decade , and the fourth, including Alvin Snow , to have a professional career in the top leagues reached. At Christmas 2013, Siva was posted to the Mad Ants farm team from Fort Wayne in the D-League for the first time for almost three weeks and at the end of January for the second time for almost two weeks . For the Fort Wayne Mad Ants , who won the league championship for the first time at the end of the season with the German national player Tim Ohlbrecht , Siva had ten missions; In the NBA 2013/14 Siva came as a rookie on 24 missions with an average of less than ten minutes for the Pistons, who missed the play-offs for the championship for the fifth time in a row . After the end of the season, the Pistons released Siva from his contract, who then signed a contract with league competitor Orlando Magic . Together with Seth Curry , who had been his opponent especially at the Duke Blue Devils , Siva was released from his contract shortly before the start of the season at the end of October. All four dismissed players were then signed by the Magic farm team, the BayHawks from Erie (Pennsylvania) , for the D-League. At the start of the D-League season in November, Siva scored a triple-double against his former team Mad Ants, but after he had injury concerns the previous season, he was unable to end the season after an ankle injury at the end of March. While teammate Seth Curry, who acts as a guard like Siva and already had a few appearances for the Phoenix Suns that season, succeeded in making a permanent return to the NBA for the following season, Siva broke his attempts to return to the NBA via the D-League to come after the 2015 NBA Summer League onwards.

In August 2015, Siva signed his first professional contract outside of his home country with Juve Basket from Caserta in Campania , who had previously only achieved relegation in the Lega Basket Serie A by withdrawing their license from another team. At the end of the 2015/16 season, four teams achieved eleven wins of the season at the end of the table, with JuveCaserta in a direct comparison in third from last place in the table to stay in league. Siva came to an average of 13.3 points per game and in particular 6.5 assists per game in 21 appearances , making him the best assists in the top Italian division that season. For the following season Siva was signed by the German old master Alba Berlin for two years. With the Berliners , Siva reached the second group stage in the European club competition EuroCup 2016/17 , in which, however, they were eliminated after only one win in six games. Siva himself injured her adductor muscles and was no longer used in the main round of the 2016/17 basketball league from the end of January, with the exception of the lost cup semi-final in front of a home crowd against Bayern Munich . Siva only celebrated his comeback after a coach change in the play-offs, where Bayern Munich were again the opponent in the first round.

Web links

Commons : Peyton Siva  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Dietmar Wenck: Free throw into life. Alba playmaker Peyton Siva has managed to rise from difficult circumstances in Seattle to professional basketball. From: Berliner Morgenpost; Berlin, December 1, 2017, quoted from: Peyton Siva: Life is beautiful. Alba playmaker Peyton Siva has managed to rise from difficult circumstances in Seattle to professional basketball. on: Berliner Morgenpost website; Berlin, December 1, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  3. ^ Gatorade State High School Players of the Year. Gatorade , accessed on September 1, 2018 (English, filter to “boys”, “basketball”, “2009” and “Washington”).
  4. ↑ Player Alumni List. (PDF (283 KB)) McDonaldsAllAmerican.com, February 11, 2013, p. 10 , accessed on May 13, 2017 (English, tabular listing of all participants).
  5. ^ Mike Waters: Louisville's Peyton Siva joins Georgetown's Patrick Ewing as the only two-time winners of the Big East Most Outstanding Player award. The Post-Standard : syracuse.com, March 17, 2013, accessed May 13, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Associated Press : Louisville struggles early but buries Morehead State in second half. CBS Sports, March 20, 2009, accessed on May 14, 2017 (English, game is considered historic because the hundredth opening win in a row for a top seeded team).
  7. ↑ Associated Press : Morehead State vs. Louisville - Game Recap - March 17, 2011: Demonte Harper's 3-pointer with seconds left lifts Morehead State past Louisville. ESPN , March 18, 2011, accessed May 14, 2017 (game report with statistics).
  8. ↑ 2012 Final Four - All roads lead to Calipari, Pitino. ESPN , March 29, 2012, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Rick Maese: 'In Kentucky, basketball is part of the definition of who you are'. The Washington Post , March 28, 2012, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  10. ^ Eric Crawford, Kentucky and Louisville fighting for a lot more than a trip to NCAA finals. CNN , March 31, 2012, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Louisville fan punches UK fan. ESPN , March 29, 2012, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Associated Press : Duke vs. Louisville - Game Recap - March 31, 2013: Emotional Louisville overcomes injury to Kevin Ware to reach Final Four. ESPN , April 1, 2013, accessed on May 14, 2017 (match report with statistics).
  13. ↑ Associated Press : Michigan vs. Louisville - Game Recap - April 8, 2013: Louisville outlasts Michigan to win national championship. ESPN , April 8, 2013, accessed May 14, 2017 (game report with statistics).
  14. ^ Associated Press : NCAA All-Tournament Teams. Fox News , April 9, 2013, accessed May 14, 2017 (listing all excellent players in the past).
  15. ↑ Basketball Hall of Fame Honors University of Louisville's Peyton Siva with the 2013 Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award. Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame , April 4, 2013, accessed May 14, 2017 (English, media info).
  16. ^ Peyton Siva D-League Stats. Sports Reference LLC, accessed May 14, 2017 (English, Individual Statistics).
  17. ↑ Magic Waive Batts, Crawford, Curry and Siva. NBA , October 26, 2014, accessed May 14, 2017 (Orlando Magic media info).
  18. ↑ Peyton Siva's triple-double (15 points, 11 assists, 10 rebounds) vs. Fort Wayne Mad Ants. Youtube , November 21, 2014, accessed on May 14, 2017 (English, uploaded by user nbadleague ).
  19. ^ Scott Rafferty: Peyton Siva Comes Close To Triple-Double In Return From Wrist Injury. Sports Blog Nation : ridiculousupside.com, January 4, 2014, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  20. ↑ BayHawks loose Siva, fall to Grand Rapids Drive. Erie Times-News : GoErie.com, March 23, 2015, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  21. ^ Jonathan Lintner: Report: Siva signs with Italian basketball team. USA Today Network: Courier-Journal.com, August 12, 2015, accessed May 14, 2017 .
  22. ↑ LEGABASKET SERIES A: Peyton Siva. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed on May 14, 2017 (Italian, player profile with statistics).
  23. ↑ Lars Spannagel: Alba Berlin signs Peyton Siva. Der Tagesspiegel , June 22, 2016, accessed on May 14, 2017 .


personal data
SURNAME Siva, Peyton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siva, Peyton Robert Jr. (Full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington, USA