Chris Boucher (basketball)
| No. 25 – Golden State Warriors | |
|---|---|
| Position | Power forward / Center |
| League | NBA |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
January 11, 1993 Castries, Saint Lucia |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) |
| Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Damase Boulanger (Alma, Quebec) |
| College |
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| NBA draft | 2017 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 2017–present |
| Career history | |
| 2017–present | Golden State Warriors |
| 2017–present | →Santa Cruz Warriors |
Chris Boucher (born January 11, 1993) is a Saint Lucia-born Canadian basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Warriors' NBA G League affiliate, the Santa Cruz Warriors. He played college basketball for the University of Oregon.
Boucher, a 6'10 forward, was born in Castries, Saint Lucia. He moved with his mother, Mary MacVane, to Montreal when he was five months old to see his Canadian father Jean-Guy Boucher. However, his parents split up when he was young and Boucher had a poor relationship with his father, who deemed him worthless. He grew up playing soccer and ice hockey but lived in poverty in the Montreal-Nord neighborhood. He dropped out of high school at age 16 and worked as a cook and dishwasher in a Saint Hubert restaurant. In 2012, he was offered a spot on a tournament basketball team, and scored 44 points in the tournament final. Boucher, who previously only played pickup basketball, was offered a spot on AAU team Alma Academy by coaches Igor Rwigema and Ibrahim Appiah. He accepted a spot at the Academy, which was created to help inner-city teenagers with few future prospects, to earn a high school diploma. In a game versus New Jersey's Blair Academy, Boucher attracted the interest of Division I college coaches when he had 29 points and 12 rebounds.
He played one season at New Mexico Junior College, averaging 11.8 points and 6.7 rebounds per game. Then, he went to Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, where he was named NJCAA Player of the Year and led the team to a 31–5 record. He averaged 22.5 points per game on 62.7% shooting from the inside and 44.4% from three point range, 11.8 rebounds, and junior college's third-highest blocks-per-game average (4.7). Following a campus visit, Boucher transferred to Oregon, who he chose over TCU, Minnesota and Texas Tech.
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