Trey Moore (basketball)

Ezekiel Trey Moore ( born April 6, 1975 in Houston, Texas ) is a former American professional basketball player. After studying in his native Moore played professionally especially successful in the British Basketball League (BBL ), in which he was twice awarded the "Most Valuable Player " (MVP) in 2005 and 2009. With its respective teams, he won twice the regular season and the play-offs of the BBL.

Career

Moore studied at Paris Junior College in Paris ( Texas), where he was in 1995 awarded as the best player of the team with the " Carroll Dawson Cup". In 1996 he continued his studies at Mississippi State University where he played for the college team Bulldogs in the Southeastern Conference of the NCAA. The Bulldogs had previously achieved the greatest success of their basketball history when they defeated Series champion Kentucky Wildcats in the SEC championship tournament and had advanced to the Final Four tournament of the NCAA national finals. This success could not connect in the following two seasons with Moore. Moore was after the end of his college career not taken into account in the NBA Draft.

Moore's first professional engagement was the season 1999/2000 in the Black Hills gold from Rapid City in the " International Basketball Association " (IBA ), which shortly thereafter went up in the re-founded Continental Basketball Association. After this first season, Moore was hired by the show team Harlem Globetrotters. He was subsequently reported in a rather insignificant league for a team in Texas, before he got a contract in the BBL at the Bullets from Birmingham in December 2003. However, this franchise of the BBL was in decline. So they reached as Table only two wins this season. However, Moore was able to draw attention to themselves by strong individual performances and got a contract for the following season at the Cup Winners Jets from Chester. With this team he won first place after the regular season 2004/ 05 and was awarded " top scorer " BBL as MVP of the season. In the final of the play-offs, but they lost by three points difference against Newcastle Eagles against which it had lost in the semifinals of the cup competition BBL Trophy after extra time and missed the title defense in this contest.

For the 2005/ 06 season, Moore went to China and played for the Qilins from Shaanxi in the Chinese Basketball Association. In 2006 he was back in his U.S. home and played in Jacksonville for the JAM in the ABA. In February 2007, he got a six-week contract in the French league LNB Pro A in Illkirch- Graffenstaden basket of Strasbourg, before he returned in the 2007/ 08 season to the Jets in the BBL. However, the Jets were in a financially difficult situation which also made ​​its presence felt in the sporty miss the play-offs. For the following season 2008 /09, Moore moved to the former main round winner Eagles from Newcastle -upon- Tyne, with whom he won the BBL Trophy and the regular season, after which Moore was again honored as MVP of the season. In the play-offs they won the final three points difference against Everton Tigers, against which it had lost in the semifinals of the League Cup BBL Cup and missed the total triumph with all title wins. Moore moved to the new season now for the Tigers from Everton. In the semi-finals of the BBL Trophy is still lost to the defending champion Eagles, who also won the regular season. In the play-offs but you could defeat the Eagles twice clearly and make sure the title with the final victory over the Glasgow Rocks in the semifinals. Moore once again went back to the Newcastle Eagles, but were eliminated in the cup competitions against the Mersey Tigers now firmierende as a team for the following season 2010/11. In the semi-finals of the play-offs you resigned as main round against Second League Cup Winners Sheffield Sharks. Moore, who was re- viewed by journalists as the best player of the BBL season, had to finish the season with a foot injury on the one hand and on the other hand fit because of a ban for referee insult that extend beyond the end of the season. Subsequently, Moore got a new contract more in the BBL. In the SEBL Summer Basketball League in 2012 Moore won the runner-up with the Outlaw from Marietta (Georgia ).