Flinder Boyd
Flinder Boyd ( born February 12, 1980 in San Francisco, California ) is a former basketball player. After his birth, American Boyd took after his studies in his native British citizenship to his father. He played professionally in particular in France, Spain and in the British Basketball League and thus did not fall under legislation governing foreigners in Europe. As a Briton, he was also appointed to the British National Basketball Team and participated in the European Championship finals in Poland in 2009 in part. Due to injuries, he missed both participation in the European Championship finals in 2011 as well as at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, which forced him to end career in March 2012.
Career
Dartmouth College (1998 to 2002)
Boyd went to study at the East Coast of the United States and studied at Dartmouth College, the University Sports Team Big Green in the Ivy League NCAA play. While the Big Green are within the Ivy League of American Football quite successful, the success in basketball are far behind. In the 1940s, they lost during the Second World War, twice each, the final game of the NCAA Men 's Division I Basketball Championship. Boyd scored during his four-year collegiate career than 1,000 points and is the all-time best list of Big Green, the player with the most Basket Templates (585), he has also given with 16 " assists " the most templates within a single game.
Ligue Nationale de Basket in France (2002 to 2006)
After studying Boyd went to France in 2002 as a professional and played in the first French LNB Pro A league for Saint Thomas Basket Le Havre to basket hunt. In the final table was reached eighth place and qualified for the play- offs for the first time at the French Championships, where, however, was eliminated in the first round to eventual champion EB Pau Orthez -. Boyd could not play in the foreground and changed for the following season in the second season of the LNB Pro B. After one season at ALM Evreux Basket in he joined the basketball team of FC Mulhouse, in which he finished fifth in the final table in 2005. Then he moved on to league rivals L'Hermine Nantes, but only reached the 15th place out of 18 teams.
Spanish LEB and British National (2006 to 2009)
For the 2006/ 07 Boyd moved to the third Spanish league LEB Plata to the club Instituto Rosalía de Castro from Galician Santiago de Compostela, with whom he won the championship this league under the sponsors name " Beirasar " and ascended into the LEB Oro. In the following season they reached the play-offs as promoted by the rise of places in the ACB League, where they lost in the first round to eventual winners and Movers Bruesa GBC. After the award of the 2012 Olympic Games to London, the British National Basketball Team was re-formed in 2008 for the first time and appointed Boyd in the national squad. In January 2009, he joined then in the British Basketball League to the Riders from Leicester, with whom he had to retire for the championship in the semi-final play-offs. After he had to fight to end the season with a groin problem, he completed during the Euro 2009 finals yet all three group matches for the British national team before he exposed a long time. The first European Championship finals participation of a British national, they lost all three games against the later semi-finalists Slovenia, Spain and Serbia.
Comeback in the Spanish LEB Oro and End of career in England (2010 to 2012)
After Boyd had been briefly at the British Masters, the Eagles from Newcastle upon Tyne, in January 2010 under contract, he attempted a comeback with the Spanish second division Aguas de Sousa from Ourense in February 2010. Ourense reached at the end of the 15th place of 18 teams and was able to avoid relegation. In the following season, he completed twelve games with the club from the Slovak Prievidza and was at the end of the season yet for a game in the tradition-rich basketball team of AEK Athens in the Greek A1 Ethniki active. While AEK had to suffer from severe financial problems and relegation to the second class, Boyd missed after injury problems to participate in the European Championship finals in 2011. During the season of 2011/12 Boyd returned to the Leicester back Riders, but finished in the spring of 2012, his active career prematurely without the desired participation in the 2012 Olympic Games in London.