Flinder Boyd

Flinder Boyd (born 12 February 1980) is a retired British basketball player born in California to British parents.

Flinder Boyd
Personal information
Born (1980-02-12) 12 February 1980
San Francisco, California
NationalityAmerican / British
Listed height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Listed weight79 kg (174 lb)
Career information
High schoolFairfax (Los Angeles, California)
CollegeDartmouth (1998–2002)
NBA draft2002 / Undrafted
Playing career2002–2012
PositionPoint guard
Career history
2002–2003STB Le Havre
2003–2004ALM Évreux Basket
2004–2005FC Mulhouse Basket
2005–2006Hermine de Nantes Atlantique
2006–2008CI Rosalía de Castro
2009Leicester Riders
2010Newcastle Eagles
2010Club Ourense Baloncesto
2010–2011BC Prievidza
2011AEK Athens
2011–2012Leicester Riders

College career

Boyd played college basketball at Dartmouth College scoring 1026 points and recording 585 assists over his four-year career.[1] He holds both the Dartmouth single game (16) and career assist records.[2]

Professional career

Boyd started his professional career in France in the Ligue Nationale de Basket where he played for STB Le Havre, ALM Évreux Basket, FC Mulhouse Basket and Hermine de Nantes Atlantique. He would then move to CI Rosalía de Castro of Spain for a two-year spell before moving to Britain to play for British Basketball League teams Leicester Riders and the Newcastle Eagles.[3] In 2010 Boyd returned to Spain to play for Ourense. During the 2010–11 season he played with BC Prievidza in Slovakia and AEK Athens BC of Greece.[4]

International

Boyd has made 34 appearances for the Great Britain national basketball team and competed in the 2009 Eurobasket championship in Poland.[5]

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References
  1. "Flinder Boyd Statistics | College Basketball at". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 March 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  2. "Men's Basketball Individual Records - DartmouthSports.com—Official Web Site of Dartmouth Varsity Athletics". Dartmouthsports.com. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  3. Basketball, British (15 November 2011). "Great Britain Basketball - News : Meet the Players". Gameongb.com. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  4. "Flinder Boyd Basketball Player Profile, stats, biography, career". Eurobasket. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  5. "Flinder Boyd's profile | 2009 EuroBasket | ARCHIVE.FIBA.COM". Fiba.com. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
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