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Tyrese Jammal Rice[1] (born May 15, 1987) is an American-born naturalized Montenegrin former professional basketball player who last played for AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League and the Basketball Champions League. He also represents the senior men's National Team of Montenegro. Rice played college basketball with the Boston College Eagles.

Tyrese Rice

Rice with Khimki in 2015
Personal information
Born	(1987-05-15) May 15, 1987 (age 35) Richmond, Virginia
Nationality	American / Montenegrin
Listed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight	190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
High school	L. C. Bird (Chesterfield, Virginia)
College	Boston College (2005–2009)
NBA draft	2009 / Undrafted
Playing career	2009–2021
Position	Point guard
Career history
2009–2010	Panionios
2010–2011	Artland Dragons
2011–2012	Lietuvos rytas
2012–2013	Bayern Munich
2013–2014	Maccabi Tel Aviv
2014–2016	Khimki
2016–2018	Barcelona
2018	Shenzhen Leopards
2018–2019	Brose Bamberg
2019–2020	Panathinaikos
2020	AEK Athens
Career highlights and awards
EuroLeague champion (2014) EuroLeague Final Four MVP (2014) EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer (2014) FIBA Champions League MVP (2019) FIBA Champions League Star Lineup (2019) EuroCup champion (2015) EuroCup MVP (2015) EuroCup Finals MVP (2015) All-EuroCup First Team (2015) Israeli League champion (2014) Israeli League Cup winner (2013) Israeli State Cup winner (2014) 2× All-German Bundesliga Team (2011, 2013) Lithuanian All-Star Game (2012) First-team All-ACC (2008) 2× Second-team All-ACC (2007, 2009)

Early life and high school

Rice was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, to Allison Rice and Wayne Jefferson. His parents ended their relationship soon afterward.[2] Rice attended L. C. Bird High School in Chesterfield, Virginia, and played on the school's basketball team. In his junior and senior seasons, he earned AAA All-State honors from the Virginia High School Coaches Association. In the 2004–05 season, he led his team to a school-record 29 wins and a Central Region title, their first ever. Rice averaged 27.0 points, 6.2 assists and 5.0 rebounds per game that season. He earned 2004–05 Associated Press (Virginia) Co-Player of the Year honors and was named (Richmond) Times-Dispatch Player of the Year.[3]

Collegiate career

Rice signed his letter of intent to play basketball at and attend Boston College on April 28, 2005.[4] As a freshman (2005–06), Rice played in all 36 games, averaging 9.3 points, 1.4 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game.[3] He earned two ACC rookie honors: ACC Rookie of the Week on November 28, 2005 and was named to the ACC All-Freshman team.[5][6] In his sophomore season (2006–07), Rice started all 33 games, averaging 36.6 minutes a game. He finished the season with stats of 17.6 points, 3.4 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game. Rice was named to the All-ACC second team, and garnered All-Tournament honors for that season's ACC tournament. In two NCAA tournament games, Rice averaged 24 points.[3]

A highlight of Rice's junior season (2007–08) was a career-high 46-point performance in a 90–80 home loss to North Carolina on March 1, 2008. He scored 34 points by halftime.[7] Rice averaged 21.0 points, 3.3 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game. He again earned All-ACC honors, this time on the first team.[3] In a scintillating senior year (2008–09), Rice experienced a dip in his scoring, averaging 16.9 points a game but improved in other statistical categories, averaging 3.8 rebounds and 5.4 assists a game. He scored 9 points in BC's only appearance of the 2009 NCAA tournament.[8]

Professional career

Rice went undrafted in the 2009 NBA draft; he had been projected to be selected in the second round or go undrafted.[9][10] He then joined the Greek League club Panionios for the 2009–10 season.[11][12]

Rice played for the Utah Jazz in the Orlando Pro Summer League and later with Sacramento Kings in the NBA Summer League in 2010. He was signed by the Artland Dragons for the 2010–11 season, a team in Germany's Basketball Bundesliga, the top league in the country.[13]

In the 2011–12 season Rice played for Lietuvos rytas of the Lithuanian Basketball League. In 2012–13 season he returned to Germany to play for Bayern Munich.[14]

On July 11, 2013, Rice signed a two-year contract with the Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv.[15][16] In his first season with Maccabi, he won the EuroLeague, with him averaging 9.5 points, 3.2 assists and 2.1 rebounds over 30 games. After beating favored Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano in a dramatic playoff series, Maccabi advanced to the EuroLeague Final Four. In the semifinal game, he was responsible for the 68–67 victory over CSKA Moscow by scoring the game-winner with 5.5 seconds left on the clock.[17] In the championship final game against Real Madrid, he scored 26 points, leading his team to a sixth European title, after an overtime 98-86 victory.[18] For such a performance, he was named the EuroLeague Final Four MVP.[19]

On June 30, 2014, Rice signed a three-year deal with the Russian club Khimki.[20][21] In the 2014–15 EuroCup season, he was named to the All-EuroCup First Team and selected the EuroCup season MVP.[22][23] Khimki eventually won the EuroCup, and Rice was named the EuroCup Finals MVP.[24]

On July 26, 2016, Rice signed a two-year contract with FC Barcelona.[25]

On January 15, 2018, Rice parted ways with Barcelona and signed with the Chinese team Shenzhen Leopards for the rest of the season, as a replacement for Keith Langford.[26][27]

On August 5, 2018, Rice returned to Germany for a third stint, signing a one-year deal with Brose Bamberg.[28] With Bamberg, Rice played in the Basketball Champions League in which he was named the Most Valuable Player of the competition. He led Bamberg to the Final Four, where the team was defeated twice and thus ended in fourth place.

On July 1, 2019, Rice signed with Greek powerhouse Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League.[29] On December 6, 2019, Rice recorded a career-high 41 points, while shooting 13-of-23 from the field, leading Panathinaikos to a 99–93 overtime win over Olympiacos.[30] In the middle of the year he announced that in the end of season he will end his career despite his age (33). Being a member of Panathinaikos he won the Greek Championship. With the Greens he had 10.1 points, 4.6 assists and 2.3 rebounds per game in A1 League and in Euroleague he had 10.0 points, 2.8 assists and 1.8 rebound per game. On August 17, 2020, Rice signed with AEK Athens.[31]

The Basketball Tournament

Rice led Boeheim's Army to The Basketball Tournament 2021 Championship. He was named MVP of the Tournament. [32][33]

National team career

In July 2013, Rice received a Montenegrin passport that allowed him to play for the senior men's Montenegrin national team at the EuroBasket 2013.[34] He also played at the EuroBasket 2017.

Career statistics

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	PIR	Performance Index Rating
Bold	Career high

†	Denotes season in which Rice won the EuroLeague

EuroLeague

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	PIR
2013–14†	Maccabi	30	5	20.6	.409	.382	.850	2.1	3.2	.6	.1	9.5	9.6
2015–16	Khimki	24	23	29.2	.382	.308	.814	2.1	6.1	1.2	.1	12.4	12.8
2016–17	Barcelona	30	30	29.4	.427	.320	.822	1.6	4.9	1.1	.1	13.0	10.6
Career		84	58	26.2	.407	.328	.830	1.9	4.6	1	.1	11.6	10.8

Source: EuroLeague

Domestic leagues

Year	Team	League	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2009–10	Panionios	GBL	27	28.3	.488	.296	.814	2.3	2.4	1.1	.0	11.7
2010–11	Artland Dragons	BBL	43	31.1	.519	.364	.810	2.8	5.1	.9	.0	17.2
2011–12	Lietuvos rytas	LKL	25	20.9	.490	.380	.759	1.4	4.4	1.0	.1	9.7
		VTB	21	26.0	.488	.441	.798	1.5	3.7	.7	.0	13.5
2012–13	Bayern Munich	BBL	40	23.8	.516	.349	.882	1.9	4.4	.8	.1	15.8
2013–14	Maccabi Tel Aviv	IPL	36	20.0	.511	.359	.750	1.9	2.8	.8	.0	10.2
2014–15	Khimki	VTB	40	27.8	.421	.360	.903	2.4	6.0	1.2	.1	15
2015–16			34	26.6	.491	.440	.885	2.0	6.2	1.2	.0	16.2
2016–17	Barcelona	ACB	34	25.4	.403	.283	.807	1.4	3.3	.7	.0	11.7
2017–18	Shenzhen Leopards	CBA	18	32.7	.439	.341	.877	2.9	4.5	1.1	.0	18.8

Source: RealGM

College

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2005–06	Boston College	36	0	20.8	.432	.391	.773	1.4	2.5	.7	.1	9.3
2006–07	Boston College	33	33	36.6	.458	.322	.795	3.4	5.4	1.2	.3	17.6
2007–08	Boston College	30	30	38.1	.433	.358	.846	3.3	5.0	1.6	.2	21.0
2008–09	Boston College	33	33	33.4	.413	.347	.856	3.8	5.3	1.4	.2	16.9
Career		132	96	31.8	.434	.353	.825	2.9	4.5	1.2	.2	15.9

References

External links

• Boston College Eagles bio
• DraftExpress profile
• Eurobasket profile
• RealGM profile
• EuroLeague profile
• FIBA profile
• Tyrese Rice on Twitter

На других языках

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[de] Tyrese Rice

Tyrese Rice (* 15. Mai 1987 in Richmond, Virginia) ist ein montenegrinisch-US-amerikanischer Basketballspieler. Er ist seit dem Ende seines Studiums in seinem Heimatland 2009 als Profi in Europa aktiv und steht aktuell bei Panathinaikos Athen unter Vertrag. Mit dem israelischen Verein Maccabi Tel Aviv gewann Rice 2014 eine Triple Crown aus nationalem Double und EuroLeague 2013/14, wobei er bei letzterem als MVP des Final-Four-Turniers ausgezeichnet wurde. Diese Auszeichnung bekam er im Trikot von BK Chimki als bester Spieler des Eurocup 2014/15 über die gesamte Saison sowie speziell der Finalserie, als die russische Mannschaft in den beiden Finalspielen überlegen den Titel gewinnen konnte.

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- [en] Tyrese Rice

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[es] Tyrese Rice

Tyrese Jammal Rice (Richmond, Virginia, 15 de mayo de 1987) es un jugador de baloncesto estadounidense que pertenece a la plantilla del AEK B. C. de la A1 Ethniki.

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[ru] Райс, Тайрис

Тайрис Райс (англ. Tyrese Rice; родился 15 мая 1987 года в Ричмонде, Виргиния, США) — американский и черногорский профессиональный баскетболист, играющий на позиции разыгрывающего защитника.

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