Romeo Travis

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Basketball player
Romeo Travis
Player information
Full name Romeo by Travis
birthday December 10, 1984
place of birth Akron (OH), USA
size 201 cm
position Small forward
college Akron
Club information
society Pallacanestro Cantù
league Lega Basket Serie A
Jersey number 24
Clubs as active
2003–2007 Akron Zips ( NCAA ) 2007 Alerta Cantabria Lobos 2007–2008 CB Ciudad de Huelva 2008–2009 ratiopharm Ulm 2009–2010 Walter Tigers Tübingen 2010–2011 Barak Netanja 2011–2012 Hapoel Gilboa Galil 2012–2013 KK Zadar 2013–2014 Chimik Yuschne 2014–2015 Krasny Oktyabr Volgograd 2015 Alaska Aces ( PBA ) 2015 Strasbourg IG 2015–2016 Le Mans Sarthe Basket Since 2016 Pallacanestro CantùUnited StatesUnited States
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SpainSpain
GermanyGermany
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IsraelIsrael
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CroatiaCroatia
UkraineUkraine
RussiaRussia
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National team
Since 02016 Macedonia

Romeo Von Travis (born December 10, 1984 in Akron , Ohio ) is an American basketball player who has also had Macedonian citizenship since 2016 and is a national player for his adopted country . After studying in his home country, Travis got off to a bad start as a professional player in Spain , before playing almost three seasons in the German basketball league from 2008 to 2010 . Travis then played in Israel , Croatia , Ukraine , Russia , France and Italy . In 2016, Travis won the French Cup competition Coupe de France with Le Mans Sarthe , after having won the 2012 supranational Balkan League with Gilboa Galil . In the season 2016/17 Travis plays for the former European champions Cantu in the Lega Basket Serie A .

Career

Romeo Travis was playing on his high school St. Vincent - St. Mary along with Dru Joyce and the NBA - All-Star and Olympic champion LeBron James , with whom he was still very good friends later, and was one of the main characters of the documentary More Than A Game , which traced James' early achievements in high school. After his successful graduation, he went to the University of Akron in his hometown with Joyce , where the college basketball team named Zips was active in the Mid-American Conference of the NCAA Division I. After his final fourth college season, Travis was invited to the NBA summer league and was allowed to compete for the Cleveland Cavaliers , who at the time also had LeBron James, who previously had no college experience, under contract. He did not succeed in convincing the trainers and scouts present to take him into the squad for the subsequent regular NBA season.

Therefore, in 2007 Travis went to Europe as a professional in the second Spanish league LEB Oro to Cantabria Lobos in Santander, Cantabria . In December of that year, he moved to the league competitor in Huelva, Andalusia . While CB Huelva stopped playing after the season, the Cantabrian team was disbanded one season later after relegation. Travis had already switched to his long-time teammate Dru Joyce's team in Ulm in the German BBL in February 2008 . After a successful BBL season 2008/09 with the first qualification for the championship play-offs since the Ulm resurgence in 2006, he switched to the BBL season 2009/10 to the regional league competitor in Tübingen . With the Tübingen, qualification for the play-offs was missed.

In 2010 Travis moved to the Israeli Netanya in the Ligat ha'Al . After one season, he moved to runner-up Hapoel Gilboa Galil for the 2011/12 season , who had defeated series champion Maccabi Tel Aviv in the championship finals in 2010. The northern Israeli club won the supranational Balkan International Basketball League as a visiting team in 2012 , where they defeated the Bulgarian club Levski Sofia in front of a home crowd in the final . After a second place in the regular season, however, they were eliminated early in the play-offs for the national championship in the quarter-finals. For the season 2012/13 Travis then moved to the Croatian club in Zadar , for which he also played in the supranational ABA league 2012/13 , in which the team was only third from bottom. In the national championship they lost the play-off final series clearly against KK Cibona Zagreb and became runner-up.

In the 2013/14 season Travis played in the Basketball Superliga Ukraine for Chimik from Yuzhna , with whom he was eliminated in the 2013/14 Eurocup in the knockout phase in the round of 16. In the national championship, Travis, along with his compatriot and teammate Jamal Shuler , who had also played in Germany, was one of the few US professionals who stayed in the country until the end of the season after the violent riots on the occasion of the Euromaidan . Other players such as Coleman Collins , who succeeded Travis in his playing position at Ulm in 2009 and played further east in Mariupol in 2014 , had previously left the country no later than the beginning of spring. Nevertheless, Chimik lost the final series of the 2014 championship against defending champion BK Budiwelnyk Kiev and became runner-up for the first time, after having only reached five third places in the Ukrainian championship.

The following season Travis moved to neighboring Russia , where he played in Volgograd for the Krasny Oktyabr club, especially in the supranational VTB United League 2014/15 , which was also the highest national league for the Russian clubs. In addition, the club played for the first time in a European competition in the Eurocup 2014/15 , in which Travis received the individual award as “Player of the Week” on the sixth match day based on his effectiveness rating . After an early change of coach in the season when the former German national coach Dirk Bauermann took over, the team was eliminated just before reaching the knockout rounds in the group stage of the best 32 teams in the Eurocup. In the United League, the club reached only twelfth place as the second worst Russian team. After the early end of the season and missing the postseason , Travis then played for the first time for an Asia- based club at the Alaska Aces in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

At the start of the 2015/16 European season, Travis returned there, playing for the first time in France , where his former teammate Shuler spent most of his career. After Matt Howard was injured , Travis got a short-term contract with runner-up SIG Basket from Strasbourg at the beginning of the season , which was not renewed after six appearances in the top European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2015/16 and in the LNB Pro A at the end of November. Four weeks later, Travis signed a contract with the Strasbourg league competitor MSB from Le Mans until the end of the season and won the Coupe de France 2016 cup competition in the final against record champions ASVEL with his new team . A good three weeks later, however, third in the main round MSB lost the play-off semi-final series for the championship against Travis' former Strasbourg team, which in turn only won the runner-up against ASVEL in the final series.

Like his compatriots Jeremiah Massey and Bo McCalebb , Travis was naturalized in Macedonia at the end of July 2016 and plays for the Macedonian selection in qualifying for the 2017 European Championship . For the 2016/17 season, Travis also signed a contract for the first time in Italy with the traditional club and former European Cup winner from Cantù , which was taken over in 2015 by Russian steel magnate Dmitri Gerassimenko as president and majority owner. The semi-professional basketball player is already the owner of the Volgograd club through his steel company Krasny Oktjabr , for which Travis had played two years earlier, and had trained there under coach Bauermann and had a few minutes of play.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zac Jackson: LeBron's friends talk homecoming, legacy and being left in the dark. Fox News Channel : foxsports.com, July 23, 2014, accessed September 4, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Big cinema with Travis. Reutlinger General-Anzeiger , March 24, 2010, accessed on September 4, 2016 .
  3. ↑ FEB.es: TRAVIS, ROMEO OF. Federación Española de Baloncesto , accessed January 8, 2014 (Spanish, player profile).
  4. ↑ Basketball: Tigers lure Romeo Travis from Ulm. Schwäbisches Tagblatt , August 10, 2009, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved on October 5, 2010 (update article from June 30, 2009).
  5. ↑ Alexander Sotirow: Galil Gilboa is the new champion after an OT drama against Levski. Balkan International Basketball League , April 23, 2012, accessed September 4, 2016 (English, media information).
  6. ↑ Budivelnyk Kiev claim Superleague title. Court-side.com, May 14, 2014, accessed September 4, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Regular Season Round 6 MVP: Romeo Travis, Krasny Oktyabr Volgograd. Eurocup , November 20, 2014, accessed September 4, 2016 .
  8. ^ Strasbourg pens Travis to short-term deal. Euroleague , October 13, 2015, accessed September 4, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Romeo Travis - Joueurs - Pro A. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed on September 4, 2016 (French, player profile).
  10. ↑ Basket. Coupe de France: et de 4 pour le MSB, vainqueur de l'ASVEL. Ouest-France , May 1, 2016, accessed September 4, 2016 (French).
  11. ^ Michael Fourn: Romeo Travis va jouer pour la Macédoine cet été. BasketActu.com, July 29, 2016, accessed September 4, 2016 (French).
  12. ↑ Lega Basket: Romeo Travis. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed September 4, 2016 (Italian, player profile).
  13. ^ Basket, Series A: Cantù vende al russo Gerasimenko. Gazzetta dello Sport , November 4, 2015, accessed September 4, 2016 (Italian).
  14. ↑ Bauermann changes club president. Sport1 , February 13, 2015, accessed September 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Travis, Romeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Travis, Romeo Von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Macedonian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Akron , Ohio, USA