BJ McKie

Aubre Bjorn " BJ" McKie (* April 7, 1977 in Norfolk, Virginia ) is a retired American professional basketball player who played for several years in Europe, including in the German Basketball Bundesliga, Italian Legadue as well as in the Israeli Ligat ha ' Al. Since the summer of 2011, he worked on the coaching staff of the CSU Buccaneers in the NCAA.

Players at college

McKie is one of the most successful basketball players of his university in South Carolina. As he points scorer scored the only player during his four- year study of more than 2,000 points, ranking member of the Hall of Fame Alex English, who has scored more points per game for the Gamecocks, however, as McKie. His jersey number 3 was retired in 2005 by the Gamecocks, ie future there will be more forgiving to any player, and he was inducted into the Hall of Fame Gamecocks 2006. With the help of McKie, the traditional college team in 1997 could qualify for the first time after eight -year break again for a final round of the NCAA, but was as well a year later not on the first round also.

Professional stations in Europe and USA

After his college days McKie was active for a few games in the French city of Dunkirk at BCM Gravelines, but otherwise played for Connecticut Pride in the CBA. In the 2001 /02 season, he was active in the NBA Development League for the Lowgators.

In 2002 he left the unterklassigen American professional leagues and started the 2002/03 season first in Nicosia in Cyprus, before he was brought from Avitos casting to Germany in November 2002. With casting in 2003 he could reach the third place in the Top Four Cup finals and was awarded 25 points per game scorer in the BBL season 2002/ 03. In the following season, he followed his Giessen coach Joe Whelton to Trier for TBB. In the cup also the third place was achieved and McKie was able to defend his title as the most successful collectors points per game in the BBL. He was also appointed for the first time for the BBL All-Star Game. In the season of preparation for the 2004/05 season McKie suffered a herniated disc, so that he did not play much of this season and was replaced by Brian Brown.

The following season, McKie began in the Italian second division in Imola and belonged with 24 points per game for the top 3 points collectors this league. With the team the final of the League Cup in this division has been reached. For the season 2006/ 07 he moved to league rivals to Caserta, where he still belonged with just under 20 points per game to the Top 10 points collectors in the league. After the third place in the main round resigned McKie with JuveCaserta as already Imola with a year earlier in the play-off quarter-finals, so that the rise in the Lega Basket Serie A did not succeed. The following season, McKie wandered on in Pavia to league rivals. Although he remained constant in his personal statistics at just under 20 points, Pavia missed the play-offs for promotion in which Caserta time to qualify for the top division succeeded.

2008 McKie left Italy and signed a contract with Maccabi Haifa in Israel. The team reached the 2009 runner-up and the cup final. For the following season, McKie went to Hapoel Afula. The contract was terminated prematurely but in January 2010, after which he signed in February 2010 a contract in Argentina La Plata Gimnasia y Esgrima, for which he still graduated four games in the Liga Nacional de Basquetbol.

Coach at the College

Since July 2011, McKie works as assistant coach Barclay Radebaugh, who himself had trained him as an assistant coach at Southern Carolina University, the Charleston Southern University in the Big South Conference in the NCAA.

Others

Chuck Eidson began his studies in 1999 in South Carolina, as McKie had just acquired his degree. The same was repeated in the NBA D -League at the Lowgators and pouring in each one-year distance. Eidson started in 2004 his successful European career in casting, as McKie later led him to Israel. Despite the many common stations, the two have never played together as a team, but in the BBL and in Israel, as they were active in various clubs at the same time in the different leagues.