Tim Breaux

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Timothy Duron "Tim" Breaux (born September 19,  1970 in Baton Rouge ) is a retired American basketball player .

career

Breaux was born in Baton Rouge (US state Louisiana ), from the age of ten he grew up in the nearby town of Zachary. From 1988 to 1992 he played for the University of Wyoming team in the first NCAA division. The 2.01-meter-tall winger completed his four-year NCAA period in the 1991/92 season with averages of 16.3 points and 4.5 rebounds.

He spent the first year of his professional life in the US league Continental Basketball Association (CBA) with the Sioux Falls Skyforce team (50 games: 13.7 points / game). He then went to Europe, played for a short time in the 1993/94 season for French second division Tours (4 games: 16 points / game), then at Pamesa Valencia in Spain's top division ACB (18 games: 13.3 points / game) .

In late August 1994, Breaux was signed by the Houston Rockets NBA team . At the side of Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon  , he was NBA champions in the 1994/95 season. Breaux was used in 42 games in the championship game year and scored an average of three points per game. He was also in the Texans' squad in 1995/96, with 54 missions the winger again averaged three points per game.

In preparation for the 1996/97 season, Breaux stayed with the Vancouver Grizzlies , but was removed from the squad in late October 1996. He then played nine games for Sioux Falls Skyforce and three for Rockford Lightning (both CBA). Breaux again attracted the interest of an NBA team, received a contract from the Milwaukee Bucks in early August 1997 , but was fired in mid-November 1997 after playing for the team in six NBA games (1.7 points /Game). In the further course of the 1997/98 game year he was under contract with Idaho Stampede in the CBA, convincing there with 16.2 points per encounter. In the spring of 1998, he left his home country and started working for Cáceres CB in Spain. For Cáceres he played 15 games (10.9 points / game) by the end of the season.

In the 1998/99 season he was committed during the current season of Galatasaray Istanbul . For the Italian club Zucchetti Montecatini he played two league games in 1999/2000, for the 2000/01 season Breaux, who had the urge for the basket and a good throw from distance were certified, to Brandt Hagen  in the basketball league . The winger achieved an average of 17.8 points and 4.2 rebounds in 10 Bundesliga appearances for Hagen, after which Hagen and Breaux split during the season. Breaux, whom Hagens coach Dirk Bauermann at the time classified as an "excellent thrower and good defender", had fallen out with Bauermann, accused him of cowardice and a favored Daren Queenan and was then dismissed. In the 2003/04 season he played briefly again for the Yakima Sun Kings in the US league CBA.

Breaux started his career in finance in his home country, and in 2010 he contracted cancer .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Timothy Duron Breaux: TRAYECTORIA Y LOGROS. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ a b A Dream Realized. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (American English).
  3. ^ Tim Breaux College Stats. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c Tim Breaux Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ BREAUX Tim | LNB.fr. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (French).
  6. ↑ a b TIMOTHY DURON BREAUX: TEMPORADA A TEMPORADA. In: ACB. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ 1994-95 Houston Rockets Transactions. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ 1994-95 Houston Rockets Roster and Stats. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ a b c Tim Breaux Stats. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (English).
  10. ↑ 1996-97 Vancouver Grizzlies Transactions. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (English).
  11. ↑ Breaux, Tim - Turkish Basketball Super League Player. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Breaux Tim - Statistiche INDIVIDUALI. In: LEGABASKET SERIE A. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Thomas Marotzke: From Breaux to Wriedt . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 26 .
  14. ↑ Brandt Hagen 2000/2001. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  15. ↑ As an NBA champion, played for Hagen. July 20, 2017, accessed on July 26, 2020 (German).
  16. ↑ Dirk Bauermann: Mission Success: My vision, my plan, my path . Herbig, FA, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7766-2679-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Breaux, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breaux, Timothy Duron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th September 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Baton Rouge