Английская Википедия:Ben Uzoh
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Benjamin Chukwukelo Uzoh (born March 18, 1988) is a Nigerian-American former basketball player. He played in international competitions for Шаблон:Bklink.[1] Standing at Шаблон:Height and playing at the point guard, Uzoh played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the New Jersey Nets and Toronto Raptors. He also played for several teams across North America, Europe, South America and Africa.
College career
Uzoh played for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane over his four-year college basketball career.
Freshman | Sophomore | Junior | Senior |
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9.9 PPG | 15.6 PPG | 14.0 PPG | 15.3 PPG |
5.0 RPG | 5.4 RPG | 4.9 RPG | 4.7 RPG |
1.5 APG | 2.3 APG | 4.7 APG | 4.7 APG |
Uzoh is the only player in school history to be ranked top 10 among points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. He's a three time All-Conference USA recipient including his selection to the first team his senior year. He started in 140 games out 141 game in his college career.
Professional career
In the summer of 2010, Uzoh earned Portsmouth Invitational Tournament All Third Team.
After going undrafted in the 2010 NBA draft, Uzoh signed a partially guaranteed contract with the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association. On January 5, 2011, Uzoh was given a guaranteed contract to play out the rest of the year in New Jersey. He was briefly assigned to the Springfield Armor of the NBA D-League, during the month of March 2011.[2]
In October 2011, he signed a one-year contract with Lokomotiv Kuban of the Russian League,[3] but was released after playing just two games.[4]
On March 27, 2012, he signed a 10-day contract with the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association.[5] On April 16, 2012, the Raptors announced they had signed Ben Uzoh for the remainder of the 2011–2012 season. He recorded a triple-double on April 26, against the Nets, the first by a Raptor in eleven years.[6]
Uzoh joined the Denver Nuggets for their training camp in October 2012,[7] but did not make the team's final roster.[8] He was then acquired by the D-League team the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.[9] However, on November 5, 2012, Uzoh was traded to the Armor for Tim Ohlbrecht.[10]
On October 31, 2013, Uzoh was acquired by the Tulsa 66ers in a trade involving the Iowa Energy and the Springfield Armor.[11] On January 22, 2014, he was traded to the Canton Charge.[12] On March 21, 2014, he was waived by the Charge due to a season-ending injury.[13]
Ben Uzoh went to Nigeria in 2015 where he signed on to play for the Lagos Islanders.[14]
On March 12, 2017, Uzoh signed with Belgian club Okapi Aalstar for the rest of the 2016–17 season.[15]
On February 10, 2018, he signed with Caballeros de Culiacan of the CIBACOPA league in Mexico.[16] He earned league All-Star honors.[17]
On November 24, 2019, Uzoh signed with Paris Basketball of the LNB Pro B.[18] On January 20, 2020, Paris Basketball and Uzoh jointly decided not to continue their collaboration.[19]
In April 2021, Uzoh signed with the Nigerian team Rivers Hoopers to play in the inaugural season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL).[20] He scored the first-ever points in the BAL in the season opener against Patriots BBC.[21] He also became the first ex-NBA player to play in the newly established competition.[22] The Hoopers were eliminated in the regular season after two losses and one win, with Uzoh averaging a team-leading 14.7 points per game.
In September 2021, Uzoh was on the roster of South African team Cape Town Tigers and helped the team win its first-ever national championship. He recorded 22 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists in the championship game against Jozi Nuggets.[23]
On July 4, 2022, he signed with Marinos of the Venezuelan SuperLiga.[24]
Post-playing career
In October 2023, Uzoh became a scout for his former team, the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he also re-united with Masai Ujiri.[25]
National team career
Uzoh has played for the Nigerian national basketball team at the 2013, 2015, and 2017 FIBA Men's African Championships. He was also a member of the Nigerian team that participated at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.[26]
Afrobasket 2013 | AfroBasket 2015 | Rio Olympics 2016 | Fiba World Cup 2019 |
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10.6 PPG | 5.6 RPG | 5.0 APG | 6.8 PPG |
8.1 PPG | 3.1 RPG | 3.0 APG | 2.2 APG |
7.4 PPG | 1.4 RPG | 2.6 APG | 1.6 RPG |
Career statistics
Шаблон:NBA player statistics legend
NBA
Regular season
Шаблон:NBA player statistics start |- | align="left" | Шаблон:Nbay | align="left" | New Jersey | 42 || 0 || 10.4 || .424 || .375 || .589 || 1.5 || 1.6 || 0.3 || 0.2 || 3.8 |- | align="left" | Шаблон:Nbay | align="left" | Cleveland | 2 || 0 || 6.5 || .400 || .000 || .000 || 2.0 || 1.0 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 2.0 |- | align="left" | Шаблон:Nbay | align="left" | Toronto | 16 || 8 || 22.3 || .351 || .000 || .579 || 3.9 || 3.7 || 1.0 || 0.2 || 4.8 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career | 60 || 8 || 13.5 || .395 || .333 || .587 || 2.1 || 2.2 || 0.5 || 0.2 || 4.0 Шаблон:S-end
BAL
Шаблон:BAL player statistics start |- | style="text-align:left;"|2021 | style="text-align:left;"|Rivers Hoopers | 3 || 3 || 29.1 || .559 || .000 || .667 || 4.7 || 5.3 || 1.0 || .7 || 14.7 |- |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career | 3 || 3 || 29.1 || .559 || .000 || .667 || 4.7 || 5.3 || 1.0 || .7 || 14.7 Шаблон:S-end
References
External links
- Ben Uzoh Шаблон:Webarchive at NBA.com
- Ben Uzoh at USBasket.com
- Ben Uzoh at ESPN.com
- Ben Uzoh at Tulsa Golden Hurricanes website
Шаблон:Nigeria squad FIBA Africa Championship 2015
- ↑ D-Tigers Begin World Cup Qualifier
- ↑ Nets send Uzoh to D-League.Шаблон:Dead link
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- ↑ Raptors rule Jerryd Bayless out for season; sign Ben Uzoh to 10-day contract. Шаблон:Webarchive
- ↑ Uzoh has triple-double as Raptors rout Nets.
- ↑ Nuggets announce 2012 training camp roster.
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- ↑ Full List of 2012 Returning, Affiliate and Local Tryout Players Invited to NBA D-League Training Camps. Шаблон:Webarchive
- ↑ Armor acquire Uzoh.
- ↑ 66ers Acquire No. 1 Overall Pick and Ben Uzoh Шаблон:Webarchive
- ↑ Canton Acquires Uzoh From Tulsa Шаблон:Webarchive
- ↑ Charge Reacquire Shane Edwards Шаблон:Webarchive
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