Kevin Joyce (basketball)
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Born | Bayside, New York |
June 27, 1951 ||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||
Listed weight | 190 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||
High school | Archbishop Molloy (Jamaica, New York) | ||||||||||||
College | South Carolina (1970–1973) | ||||||||||||
NBA draft | 1973 / Round: 1 / Pick: 11th overall | ||||||||||||
Selected by the Golden State Warriors | |||||||||||||
Position | Point guard / Shooting guard | ||||||||||||
Number | 43 | ||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||
1973–1975 | Indiana Pacers | ||||||||||||
1975 | San Diego Sails | ||||||||||||
1975–1976 | Kentucky Colonels | ||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||
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Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |||||||||||||
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Kevin Francis Joyce (born June 27, 1951) is a retired American basketball player.
A 6'3" guard born in Bayside, New York, Joyce played at the University of South Carolina. During the 1971 ACC Tournament championship game, he out-jumped North Carolina's 6'10" Lee Dedmon with seconds left to tap the ball to Tom Owens. who made a lay-up to complete a dramatic come-from-behind victory.[1]
Joyce won a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics as a member of the United States national basketball team, who lost a controversial final game to the Soviet Union. (The American team refused to accept the medals, which, as of 2013, sit in a vault in Switzerland.[2]) He later played professionally in the American Basketball Association as a member of the Indiana Pacers, San Diego Sails and Kentucky Colonels.
References
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External links
- Kevin Joyce at Basketball-Reference.com
- Kevin Joyce at databaseOlympics.com (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at DatabaseOlympics.com
- SC Athletic History as gamecocksonline.cstv.com
- 1951 births
- Living people
- Archbishop Molloy High School alumni
- Basketball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players from New York
- Golden State Warriors draft picks
- Indiana Pacers players
- Kentucky Colonels players
- Olympic basketball players of the United States
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
- San Diego Sails players
- South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball players
- United States men's national basketball team players
- American men's basketball players
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics