Troy Bell

Troy Devon Bell ( born November 10, 1980 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ) is an American professional basketball player. Bell was selected after a successful college career in the NBA Draft in the first round, but then could not prevail in the most highly endowed professional league NBA itself. He then continued his career in Europe and played with a few exceptions mainly in the two major leagues in Italy. Since February 2013, he plays in Lega Basket Serie A for the Erstligarückkehrer Trenkwalder RE from Reggio Emilia.

Career

Bell moved after graduating from the Academy of Holy Angels in Minnesota to study at the East Coast to Boston College in Chestnut Hill ( Massachusetts). For their high school team Eagles he played in the Big East Conference of the NCAA. In his second year as a " sophomore " you won the 2001 Championship of the Conference and Bell was voted " Most Valuable Player " of the tournament championship appointed. In the second round match of the national finals of the NCAA would retire despite a new Personal Career of Bell with 32 points with three points difference from the poorer rated Trojans, University of Southern California from. In the subsequent 2002 final was then already in the first round last stop against the favored Longhorns University of Texas at Austin. In conclusion Bell 2003 they remained entirely without "Post Season". Bell still could recommend for a professional contract and exceed the 2.500er - point mark in his college career as a prime scorer with 2,632 points and 21.6 points per game and the two-time award for " Big East Player of the Year ," which only a comparatively small number of basketball players in their college career succeeded. He was selected in the first round in the 2003 Entry Draft, ranked 16th by the Boston Celtics and passed directly into a player change at the Memphis Grizzlies.

In the NBA 2003/ 04 Bell, however, was only used in six games for a total of 34 minutes and already released after a knee operation in the summer at the beginning of the following season again. In December 2004, he tried his hand at European giants Real Madrid as a substitute for the injured Louis Bullock and was also used in two games of the ULEB Euro League 2004 /05. The temporary contract ran out, however, and was not renewed. He then played the following summer at the New Orleans Hornets before, where he was soon released, and was also the medical check in December 2005 the German first division German Bank Skyliners Frankfurt am Main not, having already a game for the Frankfurter in ULEB Cup had graduated as a replacement for the injured Pascal Roller 2005/ 06. After he was for a long time without a contract, he tried to strengthen his fitness and to cope with the personal frustration through boxing. He played two amateur fights in the summer of 2006. After he was finally selected in 2006 Draft of the NBA Development League ( D- League) by the reigning champions Albuquerque Thunderbirds, he graduated again inserts in professional basketball and, after a short time in December 2006 to league rivals Austin Toros. But Bell could not recommend for a new opportunity in the NBA over the D- League.

For the season 2007/ 08 he went back to Europe and signed in the Italian Biella a contract with the club Angelico in the Lega Basket Serie A mid-March 2008, he joined the second division FastWeb Junior from Casale Monferrato in the Legadue that in the first round play-offs for promotion to the Serie A were eliminated against Vanoli from Soresina. Vanoli personally stepped out on the next play-off round and ordered Bell to the following season. Here Bell reached almost 20 points on average, and in the rise - play-offs they beat in the semi-final series again Bells former club from Casale Monferrato, to finally win the final series and achieve promotion to the Serie A. For Serie A, the club merged with another club from the next larger neighboring town of Cremona, where you then had its home ground. In the 2009/10 season, it was enough for the riser end of the season just to avoid relegation, on par with Bell's former club from Biella. In the season 2010/11 Bell first played in the French LNB Pro A for the basketball club from Orléans, who had changed his name to this season in Orléans Loiret Basket. However, the contract did not stop until season's end, but mid-February 2011 has already been solved. Then he played for the former Italian first division club Trenkwalder RE from Reggio Emilia, yet reaching relegation with that in the Legadue.

At the beginning of the season 2011/12 Bell remained at first without a contract before mid-January 2012, the Italian second division newcomer from Sant 'Antimo Bell took them under contract. Although it was enough for sporty relegation, but the club ended with the end of the season his professional sports operation. Then it took the league competitor from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sicily, the 2011 was also newly come into the Legadue for the new season 2012/13 under contract. Mid- February 2013 brought him his former club Trenkwalder RE from Emilia -Romagna, who had returned to Serie A in 2012, high in the major league of Italy.