Je'Kel Foster

Je'Kel Foster ( born July 22, 1983 in Natchez, Mississippi) is a professional American basketball player. Foster won the German championship in 2009 with the EWE Baskets Oldenburg and 2013 ALBA Berlin the German League Cup competition Beko BBL Cup in 2013.

Career

Foster began his studies at Howard Junior College in Big Spring (Texas ). After a year, his basketball coach Chris Jans moved to the Chipola Junior College in Marianna (Florida ) and took Foster. For further studies Foster moved then to the Ohio State University, where he spent two years playing for the high school team Buckeyes in the NCAA until 2006.

After his time with the Ohio State Buckeyes Foster was not selected in the NBA Draft in 2006 and signed a contract with the German first division instead EnBW Ludwigsburg. He was considered one of the major players in its squad, which also thanks to him a great season 2006/ 07 played. In recognition, he was appointed to the ALLSTAR TEAM of the South, and voted " Newcomer of the Year".

Foster is regarded as so-called streaky shooter. So he's a player who throws can successfully meet from all layers in series, when he is throwing rhythm. After a season in the French LNB Pro A, in which he descended with his team Paris - Levallois as a table next to last out of the top division, he returned to the German Basketball Bundesliga back and won with the EWE Baskets from Oldenburg in the 2008 /09 season the German championship. In the final seconds of the fifth and decisive game of the play-off final series against Telekom Baskets Bonn Foster scored a Steal that ultimately decided the game and thus the championship in favor of Oldenburg with 71:70.

In the 2009/10 season, the defending champion EWE Baskets drew first round as the main one in the play-offs, but surprisingly lost in four games in the first round against the Phantoms Braunschweig. In the season 2010/11 Foster was then in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A for Vanoli - Braga Cremona active, but missed the play-offs for the championship. For the season 2011/12, the ambitious first division team FC Bayern Munich took him back to Germany. But even this difference with Foster in the first play-off round for the championship from.

Before the season starts the following season then gave Bayern Munich known to have spoken out against Foster a dismissal because he had repeatedly failed to appear, despite a request to mandatory deadlines. As a result, Foster joined the Belgian vice-champion Spirou Charleroi BC. After the injury of Vule Avdalović Foster mid-December 2012 by Alba Berlin has already been retrieved in the German Bundesliga. Playing at home, they won the 2013 Beko BBL Cup 2013, but resigned in the championship in the first play-off round of early, although in 2012/13, the most successful German team had been in the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League.

For the following season 2013/14 Foster went back to France, where he the reigning champion " Jeunesse sportive of Fontenelle " from Nanterre signed a contract in which he again played together, among others, his former Berlin teammate Ali Traoré. After leaving the ULEB Euro League 2013/14 Foster's contract ended at the end and he was beginning in February 2014 committed by the Italian first division Sidigas from Avellino.

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