TJ Lux

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TJ Lux (born April 29,  1977 in St. Charles, Illinois ) is a retired American basketball player .

career

With 1996 points and 1110 rebounds, which he achieved between 1995 and 2000, Lux sat in the best list of Northern Illinois University in each case at the top. His best season average of this time he reached 1999/2000 with 19.9 per game. In 2010 he was accepted into the university's sports hall of fame .

The 2.06-meter-long wing and inside player began his career as a professional basketball player with the German Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen , for whom he played in the final stages of the 1999/2000 season, but was injured. After the knee injury had healed, he made a second attempt at Bundesliga club Avitos Gießen in the 2001/2002 season to gain a foothold in the professional field. He achieved an average of 13.3 points and 8.1 rebounds in 29 Bundesliga appearances for Mittelhessen and reached the Bundesliga quarter-finals with Giessen.

Lux continued his career in France classi h continued, contributed 21.7 points per encounter largely instrumental in the Reims in the 2002/03 season promotion to the top division of the country, the Ligue Nationale de Basket  (LNB), succeeded . He stayed in Reims for another year and was also a leader in the LNB when he scored 21.1 points and 8.6 rebounds per game in the 2003/04 season, making him the second best scorer in the league. After his internal league move to Pau-Orthez , his playing time and his point yield (10.7 points / game) fell in the 2004/05 season. Lux was at the beginning of the 2005/06 season also for Pau-Orthez on the field before he moved to Dijon and thus to another French first division club during the season . There he played until the end of the 2006/07 season, in which he posted 15.7 points per encounter. Lux, who played in Dijon for several months due to injury, ended his career as a professional basketball player after the 2006/07 season.

Lux worked in the United States in the fitness field, starting in 2013 as a member of the executive committee of a fitness chain. He was an honorary or part-time assistant coach in his home country from 2008 to 2011 and head coach from 2011 to 2019 at Merrillville High School ( Indiana ), where he was a student himself. He resigned in March 2019 to spend more time with his wife and three sons.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Proballers: TJ Lux, basketball player. Retrieved on August 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/niuhuskies.com/documents/2019/11/8/2019_20_NIU_Men_s_Basketball_Record_Book.pdf
  3. ↑ TJ Lux Bio. Retrieved on August 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ easyCredit - 1700 Tj LUX. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ MICHAEL ZEIHEN: “We will not underestimate Gießen”. October 11, 2001, accessed on August 14, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ https://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a260_Avitos-Giessen_Giessen-verpfliziert-TJ-Lux.htm
  7. ↑ easyCredit - 421 GIE. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b Lux TJ | LNB.fr. Accessed August 14, 2020 (French).
  9. ↑ Pro A: Pau-Orthez recrute TJ Lux. In: Sport 365. Retrieved on August 14, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  10. ^ Dijon: TJ Lux à la retraite. In: Sport 365. Retrieved on August 14, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  11. ↑ Our Team | Personal Training Experts | Exercise Coach. Retrieved August 14, 2020 (American English).
  12. ↑ Basketball coach TJ Lux Announces Resignation. Retrieved on August 14, 2020 .
  13. ^ Mike Hutton: Family first: TJ Lux resigns as boys basketball coach after eight seasons at Merrillville. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lux, TJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Charles (Illinois)