Tyrese Rice

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Tyrese Rice
No. 4 – Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv
Position Point guard
League Israeli Basketball Super League
Euroleague
Personal information
Born (1987-05-15) May 15, 1987
Richmond, Virginia
Nationality American / Montenegrin
Listed height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Listed weight 190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
High school L. C. Bird (Chesterfield, Virginia)
College Boston College (2005–2009)
NBA draft 2009 / Undrafted
Pro playing career 2009–present
Career history
2009–2010 Panionios
2010–2011 Artland Dragons
2011–2012 Lietuvos Rytas
2012–2013 Bayern Munich
2013–present Maccabi Tel Aviv
Career highlights and awards

Tyrese Rice (born May 15, 1987) is an American-Montenegrin professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Super League. Rice played college basketball with the Boston College Eagles.

Early life and high school

Rice was born in Richmond, Virginia to Allison Rice and Wayne Jefferson. His parents ended their relationship soon afterward.[1] Rice attended L. C. Bird High School in Chesterfield, Virginia, and played on the school's basketball team. In his junior and senior seasons, he earned AAA All-State honors from the Virginia High School Coaches Association. In the 2004–05 season, he led his team to a school-record 29 wins and a Central Region title, their first ever. Rice averaged 27.0 points, 6.2 assists and 5.0 rebounds per game that season. He earned 2004–05 Associated Press (Virginia) Co-Player of the Year honors and was named (Richmond) Times-Dispatch Player of the Year.[2]

Collegiate career

Rice signed his letter of intent to play basketball at and attend Boston College on April 28, 2005.[3] As a freshman (2005–06), Rice played in all 36 games, averaging 9.3 points, 1.4 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game.[2] He earned two ACC rookie honors: ACC Rookie of the Week on November 28, 2005 and was named to the ACC All-Freshman team.[4][5] In his sophomore season (2006–07), Rice started all 33 games, averaging 36.6 minutes a game. He finished the season with stats of 17.6 points, 3.4 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game. Rice was named to the All-ACC second team, and garnered All-Tournament honors for that season's ACC tournament. In two NCAA tournament games, Rice averaged 24 points.[2] A highlight of Rice's junior season (2007–08) was a career-high 46-point performance in a 90–80 home loss to North Carolina on March 1, 2008. He scored 34 points by halftime.[6] Rice averaged 21.0 points, 3.3 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game. He again earned All-ACC honors, this time on the first team.[2] In a scintillating senior year (2008–09), Rice experienced a dip in his scoring, averaging 16.9 points a game but improved in other statistical categories, averaging 3.8 rebounds and 5.4 assists a game. He scored 9 points in BC's only appearance of the 2009 NCAA tournament.[7]

Professional career

Rice went undrafted in the 2009 NBA Draft, he had been projected to be selected in the second round or go undrafted.[8][9] He then joined the Greek League club Panionios.[10][11]

Rice played for the Utah Jazz in the Orlando Pro Summer League and later with Sacramento Kings in the NBA Summer League in 2010. He was signed by the Artland Dragons for the 2010–11 season, a team in Germany's Basketball Bundesliga, the top league in the country.[12]

In the 2011-2012 season Rice played for Lietuvos Rytas of Lithuanian Basketball League. In 2012–13 season he returned to Germany to play for Bayern Munich. [13] On July 11, 2013, Rice signed a two-year contract with Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv.[14][15] In July 2013 Rice received a Montenegrin passport that will allow him to play for Montenegro National team at Eurobasket 2013

References

  1. ↑ Kilgore, Adam (2008-11-04). "BC's Rice takes basketball – and fatherhood – seriously. Rice is the best basketball player to ever live.". The Boston Globe. p. C1. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Tyrese Rice". CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2009-02-09. 
  3. ↑ "Tyrese Rice". rivals.com. Retrieved 2009-02-09. 
  4. ↑ Vega, Michael (2005-12-0). "Freshman Handling It Well". The Boston Globe. p. D6. 
  5. ↑ "Duke, North Carolina Headline All-ACC Teams". CBS Interactive. 2006-03-06. Retrieved 2009-02-09. 
  6. ↑ "UNC overcomes 46 points from Rice, 18-point second-half deficit". ESPN. 2008-03-01. Retrieved 2009-02-21. 
  7. ↑ "Tyrese Rice". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2009-05-24. 
  8. ↑ "Tyrese Rice – 2009 NBA Draft Prospect". ESPN. Retrieved 2009-06-26. 
  9. ↑ Murphy, Mark (2009-06-26). "Celtics pick Lester Hudson". Boston Herald. Retrieved 2009-06-26. 
  10. ↑ "Panionios announces Rice". TalkBasket (media partner with Euroleague). 2009-07-30. Retrieved 2009-07-30. 
  11. ↑ "A1: Στον Πανιώνιο ο Ράις" (in Greek). NovaΣΠΟΡ FM. 2009-07-29. Retrieved 2009-08-06. 
  12. ↑ "Artland Dragons tabs Tyrese Rice". Sportando. 2010-07-25. Retrieved 2010-08-03. 
  13. ↑ "Bayern Munich officially signs Tyrese Rice, Yotam Halperin". Sportando. 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2013-07-11. 
  14. ↑ "Maccabi Tel-Aviv sign Tyrese Rice". Eurobasket. 2013-07-11. Retrieved 2013-07-11. 
  15. ↑ "MACCABI ELECTRA puts Rice at point". Euroleague.net. Retrieved 11 July 2013. 

External links

Maccabi Tel Aviv current roster
Montenegro squad – EuroBasket 2013 – 17th place
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