Ryan Richards

Ryan Richards
Player information
birthday	April 21, 1991
place of birth	Chatham (ENG), United Kingdom
size	212 cm
position	Center / Power Forward
NBA draft	2010 , 49th pick San Antonio Spurs
Club information
society	BC Zepter Vienna
league	OJ
Clubs as active
2006–2007 CB Gran Canaria 2007–2008 Real Madrid Youth 2008–2009 Dexia Mons-Hainaut 2009–2011 Gran Canaria 2014 2010 → BBC Monthey 2011–2012 Lugano Tigers 2012 BK Sochumi Tiflis 2012–2013 Asseco Prokom Gdynia Since 2013 BC Zepter Vienna 00000 00000 0
National team 1
Since 02011	Great Britain
1 As of July 1, 2012

Ryan Richards (born April 21, 1991 in Chatham , Kent ) is a British basketball player . Richards joined the training program of the Spanish club CB Gran Canaria at an early age of 15, but switched to various European clubs as a great talent, where he did not know how to assert himself. In the 2010 NBA Draft , the San Antonio Spurs secured the rights to Richards for the highest endowed professional league NBA . After playing for two clubs from Switzerland and for the Polish ULEB Euroleague participant Asseco Prokom Gdynia, he has been active for the Austrian first division club BC Zepter Vienna since February 2013 .

Career

The tall Richards joined the training program of the Spanish club from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria at the age of 15 in 2006 , for whose youth teams he was initially active. In the 2007/08 season he was also active for the Real Madrid youth team. Because of his goal to play in the NBA, Richards then turned down a long-term contract with Real. In the 2008/09 season, the British national coach Chris Finch brought him to Belgium , where he worked as the club coach of Dexia in Mons . In addition to appearances in the club's second team, Richards also had three appearances in the men's team of Dexia in the top Belgian division Ethias League . He then returned to Gran Canaria, which, however, awarded him in January 2010 to the Swiss first division club from Monthey in the national basketball league . Here Richards now had working time in the men's area, which he initially did not get in Gran Canaria. Subsequently, Richards signed up early as a 19-year-old for the Entry Draft of the NBA, where he was selected in 49th place by the San Antonio Spurs, but was not taken into the club's squad.

After making his debut for the British national basketball team in the men's field at the preparatory tournament for the 2012 Olympic Games in London in 2011 , he played again in the national basketball league for the Swiss champions Tigers from Lugano in the 2011/12 season . At the end of the season, however, he moved to Georgia in April 2012 , where he played for BK Sochumi in Tbilisi . For the Olympic tournament in London Richards was not called up to the national team. In the 2012/13 season he got a fixed-term contract with the Polish champions Asseco Prokom from Gdynia at the beginning of November 2012 , for which he also played in the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 . After Asseco Prokom was eliminated in the preliminary round of the Euroleague, Richards also left the club after three months and switched to the Austrian basketball league for BC Zepter Vienna in February 2013 . With the Viennese club, Richards reached the play-off final series for the national championship for the first time in the club's young history .

Web links

• archive.fiba.com: Players - Ryan Richards (ENG) - Overview of participation in FIBA competitions (English)
• Richards, Ryan - Player profile on the website of the ULEB (English)
• Player details: Ryan Richards - player profile on the ÖBL website

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ryan Richards: the next step in a career odyssey. EuropeanProspects.com, June 26, 2010, accessed May 16, 2013 .  
2. ↑ ASSECO PROKOM adds English big man Richards ( Memento from July 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ The BC strikes shortly before the transfer deadline: Power Forward Ryan Richards strengthens the league leaders. OJ , February 12, 2013, accessed May 16, 2013 .