Toby Bailey

Toby Bailey
Player information
Full name	John Garfield Bailey
Nickname	Toby
birthday	19th November 1975
place of birth	Los Angeles (CA), USA
size	198 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college	UCLA
NBA draft	1998 , 45th Pick, Los Angeles Lakers
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
1994–1998 UCLA Bruins ( NCAA ) 1998–2000 Phoenix Suns 2000–2001 Los Angeles Stars ( ABA ) 2001–2002 Fillattice Imola 2002–2003 Panionios Athens 2003–2004 Aris Thessaloniki 2004–2005 AEK Athens 2006 Telindus Oostende 2007 Beijing Aoshen Olympians ( ABA) 2007–2008 Cologne 99ers 2008 Ricoh Manresa 2009–2010 Artland Dragons 2010–2011 EnBW Ludwigsburg 000 0 000 0 000 0

John Garfield Bailey (born November 19, 1975 in Los Angeles ) is a retired American basketball player . The 1.98 m tall players was known by even as "he 1995 College - Freshman " in the NCAA Finals 26 points for the first victory of the UCLA Bruins since the era of John Woodens contributed. Bailey played as a point guard in the NBA , but retrained to small forward in Europe .

Bailey played for four years for the UCLA team from 1994 to 1998, but after the 1995 NCAA championship he did not reach the Final Four series with the team . Then Bailey was selected in the NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers as a total of 45th in the second round. However, the Lakers passed it on to the Phoenix Suns before the start of the NBA season. He played 73 times for the Suns in two seasons and got an average of 3.3 points.

His contract was not renewed in 2000, so he signed a contract with the Stars for one season in the little-renowned, reactivated American Basketball Association in Los Angeles . Afterwards Bailey in 2001 went to Europe and played for one season in the Italian Imola in the top domestic league championship series A . He then moved on to Greece and played for the Athens clubs Panionios and AEK, with whom he also made his first appearances in the top European division ULEB Euroleague , and in between for Aris from Thessaloniki , with whom he won the 2004 Greek Cup .

In March 2006 he was signed by the Belgian club Telindus from Ostend on the English Channel , with whom he was national champion at the end of the season together with, among others, the German international Denis Wucherer . Then returned briefly to the ABA and was active in the ABA for the Aoshen Olympians from Beijing coming from the People's Republic of China . From autumn 2007 the globetrotter then played for the reigning German cup winner 99ers from Cologne , which he left after the club's bankruptcy and in February 2008 hired for the rest of the season with the Spanish first division club Ricoh Bàsquet from Manresa . A year later in February 2009 he returned to the German basketball league and played in Quakenbrück for the Artland Dragons, with whom he then narrowly missed the play-offs for the German championship twice in a row . After he did not receive a new contract there, he moved to league competitor EnBW from Ludwigsburg for the BBL season 2010/11 . With this club, too, he missed the move into the German play-offs. In 2011 he ended his active career and returned to his hometown.

In the past, Toby Bailey was also active in his home country in the Summer League International Basketball League for the Santa Barbara Breakers (2007) and the Los Angeles Lightning (2008-2010).

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Toby Bailey - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Toby Bailey - player profile on the pages of the Liga ACB (Spanish)
• Toby Bailey - player profile on the statistics pages of Serie A (Italian)
• Toby Bailey - player profile on NBA.com
• Toby Bailey Statistics - College Playtime Statistics on sports-reference.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Toby Bailey is the new starter in Ludwigsburg. EnBW Ludwigsburg , August 30, 2010, accessed on August 30, 2010 (press release). 
2. ^ Los Angeles Lightning. IBLHoopsOnline.com ( Memento from March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )