Torgeir Bryn

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Torgeir Bryn (born August 19, 1964 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian basketball player . Bryn is the first Norwegian to appear in the North American NBA .

Life

Bryn's hometown club is Ammerud Basket in Oslo. With the team he became Norwegian champions several times in the first half of the 1980s, before the 2.06 meter tall indoor player moved to MiraCosta College in the US state of California  in 1985 . There he stayed for two years and then played from 1987 to 1989 for the team at Southwest Texas State University in the first NCAA division. With his performances for Southwest Texas State (61 games: 15.9 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.7 blocks / game), he made the Los Angeles Clippers  attention. He took part in a Clippers training camp in the summer of 1989, but initially received no contract commitment from the NBA team and therefore signed with the Belgian club Damme BAC. Before the start of the 1989/90 season, the Clippers got back to Bryn, who was finally released by the Belgians after negotiations with Damme and signed in Los Angeles in October 1989. On November 3, 1989, he played  his first game against the Houston Rockets , making it the first Norwegian to be used in an NBA game. He did not make the breakthrough in Los Angeles, Bryn only came to three short appearances for the Clippers, in which he scored an average of 1.3 points. The Norwegian continued the 1989/90 season in the US league CBA , where he ran up first for the San José Jammers, then the Tulsa Fast Breakers and then for the Quad City Thunder.

Bryn decided in the run-up to the 1990/91 game year to move to France , where he strengthened the second division Union Amicale Cognac and posted an average of 17.3 points and 11.2 rebounds in 29 games over the course of the season. In the 91/92 season, the Norwegian was first under contract with the Spanish first division club Dyc Breogán (16 games: 12.9 points, 9.1 rebounds / game), then in the USA with the Fort Wayne Fury in the CBA. In the summer of 1992 he played for the New Jersey Jammers in the US League USBL, in the 1992/93 season he was again in the service of the Fort Wayne Fury, before he moved to the Omaha Racers within the CBA and finally went back to France. to reinforce the second division Evreux until the end of the season 92/93 and then in the game year 93/94. In the 93/94 season Bryn achieved top values ​​with 15.2 points and 9.1 rebounds per encounter.

In the run-up to the 1994/95 game year he took part in the training of the NBA team Philadelphia 76ers  , but was removed from the squad shortly before the start of the season. Bryn then moved to the Spanish first division club Estudiantes Madrid , for whom he scored an average of 4 points per game in six appearances. During the season, the Norwegian moved from Madrid to the Portuguese capital club Benfica Lisbon and won the championship title with Benfica.

In the game year 1995/96 he was  under contract with the Lithuanian top club Žalgiris Kaunas and came there in the league to averages of 10.6 points and 9.8 rebounds per encounter. He won the Lithuanian championship title with Kaunas. He did not achieve such high values ​​in the first French league, in which he won 1996/97 for EB Pau-Orthez (3.2 points and 2.5 rebounds / game) and 1997/98 for Le Mans (5 points and 3.3 Rebounds / game). In the 1998/99 season Bryn was only in the service of the Belgian first division club Gent, later he moved to Sicc Jesi in the second division of Italy. The last foreign station of his career as a professional basketball player was Aris Thessaloniki in Greece in 1999/2000 .

He returned to his hometown in 2000 and strengthened the Oslo Kings and then the Harstad Vikings in the Norwegian first division. In 2004 he retired from competitive sports, but made his return in 2007 at the age of 43 in the colors of his original club Ammerud Basket and played alongside his son Martin in the country's highest league until 2009.

National team

He played 111 international matches for Norway.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c AltomNBA redaksjon: Fra Apalløkka til LA Sports Arena. In: AltomNBA. July 22, 2015, accessed on June 23, 2019 (nb-NO).
  2. ↑ Torgeir Bryn College Stats. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Torgeir Bryn. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c d ACB.COM. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 30, 2016 ; accessed on June 23, 2019 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acb.com
  5. ↑ a b c BRYN Torgeir | LNB.fr. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 1991 Fort Wayne Fury Roster and Results on JustSportsStats.com. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ LKL | Lietuvos krepšinio lyga. Retrieved June 23, 2019 (lt-LT).
  8. ↑ a b Mette Bugge Jon-are Berg-jacobsen: 4 meters Bryn darker til. Retrieved June 23, 2019 (nb-NO).
personal data
SURNAME Bryn, Torgeir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo