Travis Trice
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Trice (left) guards Kendall Marshall in 2011
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| No. 20 – Westchester Knicks | |
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| Position | Point guard |
| League | NBA Development League |
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| Born |
January 22, 1993 Springfield, Ohio |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Listed weight | 177 lb (80 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Wayne (Huber Heights, Ohio) |
| College | Michigan State (2011–2015) |
| NBA draft | 2015 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 2015–present |
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| 2015–2016 | Westchester Knicks |
| 2016–2017 | Cairns Taipans |
| 2017–present | Westchester Knicks |
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Travis Trice Jr. (born January 22, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the Westchester Knicks of the NBA Development League. He played college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans, leading his team in points during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. He attended Wayne High School in Huber Heights, Ohio, where he played under his father, Travis Trice Sr.
Trice was born on January 22, 1993 to Travis, Sr. and Julie Trice. In Julie's 41st week of pregnancy, her son's heartbeat flatlined and she was immediately rushed in for a C-section operation. Her pregnancy marked the abrupt end of her successful high school track career and a potential athletics scholarship to University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She later said, "People were telling me I should get an abortion after I got pregnant. People have been saying 'No, no, no, no, no' to him forever." She had her son at about 18 years of age, while she was a senior in high school and her husband was still attending college. According to Washington Post, Trice was born with "the umbilical cord tangled around his ankles," but survived.
Travis fell in love with basketball at a young age, but also actively played baseball and football in his childhood. He said, "I liked baseball, but I didn't like all the standing around." Trice officially began basketball in middle school, after watching his friends play on the team. He played quarterback in middle school football, but was strongly compared to his friend Braxton Miller. His mother recalled the situation to the Detroit Free Press, "No, you aren't big enough. No, you aren't quick enough. You're a good middle school quarterback, but not as good as your best friend." Miller would go on to play football at a high level for the Ohio State Buckeyes.
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