Ryan Richards
Ryan Richards ( * April 21, 1991 in Chatham, Kent ) is a British professional basketball player. Richards came early with 15 years in the training program of the Spanish club CB Gran Canaria, but changed a great talent to various European clubs, but where he saw himself not to enforce. In NBA Draft 2010, the San Antonio Spurs secured the rights to Richards for the most heavily doped professional league NBA. After he had previously been playing for two clubs from Switzerland and for the Polish ULEB Euro League group Asseco Prokom Gdynia, he's since February 2013 for the Austrian first division side BC scepter Vienna active.
Career
The tall Richards already was 15 years old in 2006, the training program of the Spanish Association of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, for their youth teams, he was initially active. In the season 2007/ 08 he was also active for the youth team of Real Madrid. Because of its objective to play in the NBA, Richards beat then from a long-term contract with Real. In the 2008 /09 season, the British coach Chris Finch took him to Belgium, where it worked as a club coach Dexia Mons. In addition to intervening in the second team of the club Richards also had three appearances in the men's team of Dexia in the highest Belgian Ethias League game class. Then he returned to Gran Canaria, but awarded him in January 2010 to the Swiss first division of Monthey in the national basketball league. Here Richards had now operating time in the men's area, which he initially did not get in Gran Canaria. Subsequently, Richards reported already as a 19- year-old early for the NBA Entry Draft, where he was selected in 49 out of the San Antonio Spurs, but was not included in the squad of the club.
After he debuted at the 2011 tournament preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games in London for the British National Basketball Team in the men's field, he played in the 2011/12 season again in the National Basketball League for the Swiss champion Tigers from Lugano. At the end of the season he joined in April 2012 but to Georgia, where he played for BK Sukhumi in Tbilisi. For the Olympic tournament in London Richards was not called to the national team. In the 2012/13 season, he got early November 2012 a temporary contract with the Polish champions Asseco Prokom Gdynia, for which he also played in the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2012/13. Asseco Prokom Having eliminated in the Euro League in the first round, also left Richards after three months the club again and moved in February 2013 in the Austrian basketball league for BC scepter Vienna. With the Viennese association Richards reached for the first time in the young history of the club play-off final series for the national championship.