Brandon Dawayne Roy is an American basketball coach and former player. Roy played six seasons in the National Basketball Association for the Portland Trail Blazers and Minnesota Timberwolves. On December 10, 2011, Roy announced his retirement from basketball due to a degenerative knee condition. He returned in 2012 to play five games for the Timberwolves.
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Brandon Dawayne Roy is an American basketball coach and former player. Roy played six seasons in the National Basketball Association for the Portland Trail Blazers and Minnesota Timberwolves. He was selected sixth in the 2006 NBA draft, having completed four years playing for the Washington Huskies. On December 10, 2011, Roy announced his retirement from basketball due to a degenerative knee condition, though he returned in 2012 to play five games for the Timberwolves. Roy attended Nate McMillan’s basketball camp in the 1990s when the future Blazers coach was still playing for the Seattle SuperSonics. Roy was named Pac-10 player of the year and received All-American honors at the end of the season, while also being a finalist for the Wooden, Naismith, Oscar Robertson, and Adolph Rupp awards. Roy faced challenges before entering college. His parents and his older brother had not attended college. Due to a learning disability Roy had difficulty with the SAT; his reading comprehension was slow, which increased the time he needed for tests. He had taken the test four times before finally meeting the NCAA requirements. Roy worked on the Seattle docks, cleaning shipping containers for USD 11 per hour. On January 22, 2009, before a University of Washingtonhuskies home game versus the USC Trojans, his number 3 uniform was retired. Roy became known for his immediate impact on the Trail Blazers. He became the fourth Trail Blazer to be selected for the NBA All-Star Weekend squad since its inception in 1994.
He received 127 out of 128 votes for NBA Rookie of the Year in 2006–07 season. After averaging 16 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists per game during the 2006-07 NBA season, Roy was only the second player in NBA history to receive more than 100 points in a single season. He is the 31st Washington player to score 1,000 points in his career, and the fourth player to do so since the start of the 2010-11 NBA season. His nickname was ‘B-Roy’, but he was also referred to as ‘The Natural’ by Trail Blazers announcer Brian Wheeler. Roy’s NBA debut was in his hometown against the SeattleSuperSonics, and he scored 20 points in that game, and 19 in the following game. He scored his first career double-double shortly after return, on December 22, 2006, against the Toronto Raptors of January 2007. He led all rookies with 14.5 points per game in his rookie season. In his second season, he was selected as a reserve to the 2008, 2009,. 2009, and 2010 All-Stars games. He also played in the Western Conference’s Western Conference’s Western Conference Rookie Month in January, February, and March 2007. In January 2008, he became the first Trail Blazers player to participate in the All-star Weekend since the inception of the NBA-Western Conference Challenge since 1994. In December 2008, Roy became the only player to have played in every NBA- Western Conference All- Star Weekend since 1994 to be a reserve.
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