Torrey Craig

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Basketball player
Torrey Craig
Craig in 2018
Player information
birthday December 19, 1990 (29 years 257 days)
place of birth Columbia, South Carolina , United States
size 198 cm
position wing
college USC Upstate
Clubs as active
2014-2015 AustraliaAustralia Cairns Taipans
2015 New ZealandNew Zealand Pacific Jewelers Saints
2015-2016 AustraliaAustralia Cairns Taipans
2016 New ZealandNew Zealand Wellington Saints
2016-2017 AustraliaAustralia Brisbane Bullets
2017 AustraliaAustralia Gold Coast Rollers
since 2017 United StatesUnited States Denver nuggets

Torrey Craig (born December 19, 1990 in Columbia, South Carolina ) is an American basketball player .

career

Craig grew up without a father, his mother was temporarily imprisoned for drug offenses, so that he was raised in particular by his grandmother and his big sister. He played as a student at Great Falls High School in his home state of South Carolina . In 2010 he moved to the University of South Carolina - Upstate in the first NCAA division and began studying communications . He played there until 2014 and, with 2,128 points, was second on the university team's eternal basketball list when he left. In his four years at the University of South Carolina - Upstate, he averaged 16.2 points per match. With a total of 297 three-point throws hit and 944 rebounds, Craig, whose teammate also included the German Mario Blessing , set new records for “USC Upstate”. In 2011/12, Craig was named Player of the Year at the Atlantic Sun Conference .

When the NBA draft proceedings in 2014, Craig was not considered, he then moved to the Australian team Cairns Taipans in the NBL . Craig played for various teams in Australia and New Zealand until 2017 . In the 2016/17 season he was named the best defender in the league and averaged 15.2 points and 8 rebounds per encounter for the Brisbane Bullets . He then played in the spring season 2017 for the Gold Coast Rollers in the Australian Queensland Basketball League and triumphed there with averages of 28.2 points and 9.9 rebounds per match.

In the summer of 2017, Craig played for the Denver Nuggets in the NBA's summer league in his home country and was then awarded a contract. In the 2017/18 NBA season he achieved averages of 4.2 points and 3.3 rebounds per use, impressed in particular with his defense performance and received a contract extension in Denver in the summer of 2018.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ How Torrey Craig's childhood dream morphed into one of the NBA's most surprising success stories. In: The Denver Post. May 4, 2018, Retrieved October 19, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ https://www.heraldonline.com/sports/high-school/article214574400.html
  3. ^ Torrey Craig - 2013-14 - Men's Basketball. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA - UPSTATE Nahrungsmittel (Ed.): 2014-15 USC Upstate Men's Basketball Media Guide . SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, USA 2014.
  5. ^ Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year Winner. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  6. ^ USC Upstate News. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Torrey Craig Signs $ 4 million deal with Denver Nuggets. In: National Basketball League | NBL. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ From Gold Coast Rollers to NBA. July 20, 2017, accessed October 19, 2019 .
  9. ^ Nuggets Sign Rookie Torrey Craig to Two-Way Contract. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Torrey Craig signs 2-year, $ 4 million contract with Denver Nuggets. In: The Denver Post. July 9, 2018, Retrieved October 19, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Craig, Torrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbia, South Carolina