Kyle Fuller (basketball)

Kyle Alejandro Fuller Jr. (born January 27, 1992) also known as "Zoom Fuller", is an American basketball point guard and author. He played basketball for the Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team with his senior season in 2013–2014. Fuller played for Paulistano in 2017–2018 and won the NBB, he currently plays for Corinthians also in the NBB.

Kyle Fuller
No. 2 – Corinthians
PositionPoint guard
LeagueNBB
Personal information
Born (1992-01-27) January 27, 1992
Compton, California
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Listed weight190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
High schoolRancho Verde High School
CollegeVanderbilt University (2010–2014)
NBA draft2014 / Undrafted
Playing career2014–present
Career history
2014Bakersfield Jam
2016–2017Toros de Aragua
2017Regatas Lima
2017–2018Paulistano
2018–presentCorinthians
Career highlights and awards
  • NBB champion (2018)
  • São Paulo State champion (2017)

High school career

Fuller excelled athletically and academically at Rancho Verde High School in Moreno Valley, California. As a senior, Fuller was All-State and Conference MVP as he averaged 27.6 points, 8 assists, 6 rebounds and 4 steals while maintaining a 3.4 GPA. He is the winningest basketball player in Rancho Verde history.[1] Fuller was rated as the number 34 point guard and given a scout grade of 91 in the class of 2010 by espn.com, who described him as "one of the more prolific scorers out west." [2] He committed to play college basketball for Vanderbilt, turning down scholarship offers from California, Marquette and UCLA.[3]

College career

After quiet freshman and sophomore years, Fuller became the starter for Vanderbilt at point guard his junior season. Fuller attributed the change in his status on the team due to an improved work ethic resulting from a desire to honor his father's memory after his death that May. Fuller told USA Today that he was thinking about transferring, unhappy due to his lack of playing time when his sick father changed his mind "My dad told me I'm not a quitter", Fuller said. "He told me I'm going to fight for everything I've got. He said he didn't want to see me leave a good university, especially when you have a skill set to play at a high DI university. You're going to stay and there you're going to play."[4] Starting at point guard junior year, Fuller averaged 8.7 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game.[5] Fuller earned Southeastern Conference Player of the Week for his performance against Xavier during which he scored 25 points including all 12 of Vanderbilt's points in overtime, leading them to a 66-64 Victory.[6] Fuller returned to his starting role at the point guard position for his senior season in 2013-2014. He averaged 11.0 points, 2.2 rebounds, and 4.2 assists per game, qualifying him for second in the Southeastern Conference in assists per game.[7] He recorded double-doubles against Kentucky and Tennessee with 17 points and 10 assists against Kentucky and 12 points and 10 assists against Tennessee.[8] On January 16 Fuller scored 22 points against Missouri, including 8 in the final 65 seconds to help seal a 78–75 victory for the Commodores.[9]

Career highlights

Points: 25, at Xavier (12/6/12)
Rebounds: 9, vs. Ole Miss (1/22/14)
Assists: 10, 2x, last vs. Tennessee (2/5/14)
Blocks: 1, 4x, last vs. Missouri (1/16/14)
Steals: 3, 2x, last vs. MTSU (12/21/12)[1]

Below The Rim

On August 19, 2014 Fuller announced that he was writing a book titled Below The Rim' that would reveal "the dirty side" of college basketball. In a follow-up interview with The Tennessean, Fuller explained that the book would give an inside look at the life of an elite college athletes and hoped the book would be funny, outrageous and controversial.

On September 3, 2014, Vanderbilt student newspaper The Vanderbilt Hustler released an interview with Fuller about the book as well as the first excerpt from the book titled Dixieland about a racially fueled altercation occurring at a party at Lipscomb University. The story also mentions that he was called the "N-Word" by a fan while at the free throw line during a game against University of Georgia. The excerpt sparked controversy at Lipscomb, a local Christian School where some students expressed their anger over the story in an article posted on The Lumination Network; Lipscomb's student news service. Sam Smith, Lipscomb's dean of campus life, made a statement on the excerpt saying "If this happened we need to take serious looks of what is going on. So we’re asking questions, but it’s still a very, very tough pill to swallow that this is really a possibility of something that happened on our campus."

gollark: Sounds TJ09.
gollark: Ndology maybe.
gollark: Hmm? I'm interested in this NDology stuff.
gollark: Wait what?
gollark: Coast is hard.

References
  1. "Kyle Fuller Bio - Vanderbilt Official Athletic Site". vucommodores.com. Archived from the original on December 19, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
  2. "Basketball Recruiting - Kyle Fuller - Player Profiles - ESPN". ESPN.com.
  3. "Kyle Fuller". yahoo.com.
  4. Jeff Lockridge, USA TODAY Sports (October 8, 2012). "Vanderbilt guard playing for family". USATODAY.
  5. "Kyle Fuller". ESPN.com.
  6. "Vanderbilt Commodores vs. Xavier Musketeers - Recap - December 06, 2012 - ESPN". ESPN.com.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 19, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Kyle Fuller". ESPN.com.
  9. "Missouri Tigers vs. Vanderbilt Commodores - Play by Play - January 16, 2014 - ESPN". ESPN.com.
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