Kevin Joyce (basketball)
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June 27, 1951 Bayside, New York |
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 190 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school | Archbishop Molloy (Jamaica, New York) | ||||||||||||
| College | South Carolina (1970–1973) | ||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 1973 / Round: 1 / Pick: 11th overall | ||||||||||||
| Selected by the Golden State Warriors | |||||||||||||
| Position | Point guard / Shooting guard | ||||||||||||
| Number | 43 | ||||||||||||
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| 1973–1975 | Indiana Pacers | ||||||||||||
| 1975 | San Diego Sails | ||||||||||||
| 1975–1976 | Kentucky Colonels | ||||||||||||
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Kevin Francis Joyce (born June 27, 1951) is a retired American basketball player.
A 6'3" guard born in Bayside, New York, Joyce played at the University of South Carolina. During the 1971 ACC Tournament championship game, he out-jumped North Carolina's 6'10" Lee Dedmon with seconds left to tap the ball to Tom Owens. who made a lay-up to complete a dramatic come-from-behind victory.
Joyce won a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics as a member of the United States national basketball team, who lost a controversial final game to the Soviet Union. (The American team refused to accept the medals, which, as of 2017, sit in a vault in Switzerland.[2]) He later played professionally in the American Basketball Association as a member of the Indiana Pacers, San Diego Sails and Kentucky Colonels.
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