Romeo Travis
From Romeo Travis ( born December 10, 1984 in Akron, Ohio ) is an American professional basketball player who played from 2008 to 2010 just three seasons in the German Basketball Bundesliga. After he had previously been already active in Spain, he played then in Israel and Croatia. In the 2013/14 season, he is in the Basketball Super League Ukraine at Chimk Juschne under contract.
Career
Romeo Travis was playing on his high school St. Vincent - St. Mary along with Dru Joyce and the NBA All-Star and Olympic champion LeBron James, with whom he is very good friends even today. After his successful graduation, he went together with Joyce at the university of his native city, the University of Akron. Travis played at the college in the Zips basketball team mentioned in the Mid- American Conference NCAA Division I, out of the vast number of players for the professional league NBA are recruited. After his fourth and final college season Travis was invited to the NBA summer league and was allowed to compete for the Cleveland Cavaliers, who had at that time also LeBron James under contract. He did not succeed to convince the coaches and scouts present to take him in the squad for the subsequent regular NBA season.
Therefore Travis in 2007 went to Europe as a professional in the second Spanish Liga LEB Oro Cantabria Lobos in Cantabria Santander. Back in December of that year he moved to league rivals in the Andalusian Huelva. While CB Huelva after the season stopped all performances the Cantabrian team was disbanded after relegation one season later. Travis was already changed in February 2008, the team of his longtime teammate Dru Joyce to Ulm in the German BBL. After a successful BBL season 2008/ 09 with the first-time qualifiers for the Championship play-offs since the Ulm comeback in 2006, he joined the BBL season 2009/10 to the regional league rivals to Tübingen. With the Tübingen qualifying for the play-offs has been missed.
2010 Travis moved to the Israeli Ligat ha Al Netanya in the. After one season he moved to the 2011/12 season to Hapoel Gilboa Galil runner who could beat the 2010 series champion Maccabi Tel Aviv in the championship final. The northern Israeli club won in 2012 as a visiting team the Balkan International Basketball League, where the Bulgarian club Levski Sofia beat in the final in front of home crowd. After a second place in the regular season is different, however, in the play- offs for the national championship in the quarterfinals early from. In the season 2012/13 Travis then moved to the Croatian club to Zadar, for which he also played in the ABA league. In the national championship they lost the play-off final series against KK Cibona Zagreb clear and was runner-up. In the 2013/14 season Travis plays in the Basketball Super League Ukraine for Chimik from Juschne.