Richard Roby Explained

Richard Roby
Height Ft:	6
Height In:	5
Weight Lbs:	190
Position:	Shooting guard
Birth Date:	28 September 1985
Birth Place:	San Bernardino, California
Highschool:	Lawrence Academy (Groton, Massachusetts)
College:	Colorado (2004–2008)
Nationality:	American
Draft Year:	2008
Career Start:	2008
Career End:	2019
Years1:	2008–2009
Team1:	Bnei Hasharon
Years2:	2009–2010
Team2:	Maccabi Haifa
Years3:	2010
Team3:	Halcones Rojos Veracruz
Years4:	2010–2011
Team4:	Rio Grande Valley Vipers
Years5:	2011
Team5:	Peristeri
Years6:	2012
Team6:	Fos Ouest Provence
Years7:	2012
Team7:	Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca
Years8:	2012–2013
Team8:	Wonju Dongbu Promy
Years9:	2013
Team9:	Gaiteros del Zulia
Years10:	2013
Team10:	Caciques de Humacao
Years11:	2013–2016
Team11:	Akita Northern Happinets
Years12:	2016
Team12:	SAN-EN NeoPhoenix
Years13:	2016–2017
Team13:	Osaka Evessa
Years14:	2017
Team14:	Marinos de Anzoátegui
Years15:	2018
Team15:	Soles de Mexicali
Years16:	2018-2019
Team16:	Shinshu Brave Warriors
Highlights:	2× bj league Best Five (2014, 2015) bj league All-Star (2015) bj league Best Sixth Man (2014)

Richard Roby (born September 28, 1985) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Shinshu Brave Warriors of the Japanese B.League. He attended high school at Lawrence Academy at Groton, Massachusetts. Roby attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and played for the Buffaloes from 2004 to 2008. He averaged 17 points and 5.5 rebounds during his career for the Buffaloes. He graduated as Colorado's all-time leading scorer, doing so in his final collegiate game.^[1]

Roby is the half-brother of Kenyon Martin. Roby was married in 2011 to Kendrea Oliver in Las Vegas, Nevada. Together they have four children.^[2]

Professional career

In the summer of 2008, Roby signed a contract through the year 2009 with Bnei Hasharon in Israel. During the 2009/2010 season, he joined Maccabi Haifa B.C.

Roby played for the Nuggets in the NBA Summer League in 2010.^[3] After playing eight games with Halcones Rojos de Veracruz in Mexico, he left and then signed with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA D-League.

Richard played for Fos sur mer team, in French league (LNB 2nd division) and for Club Wonju Dongbu Promy, a Korean basketball league team (aka KBL)."Akita star" played for the Akita Northern Happinets of Japan in 2013-16 and won bj league Eastern Conference championship title for two years in a row.^[4] He also acquired his Japanese driver's license in Wariyama, Akita.^[5] He loves to play in this Far East country, and he signed with the SAN-EN NeoPhoenix in 2016.He came terms with the Osaka Evessa on December 9, 2016.

The Basketball Tournament (TBT) (2017–present)

In the summer of 2017, Roby played in The Basketball Tournament on ESPN for Team Colorado (Colorado Alumni). He competed for the $2 million prize, and for Team Colorado and as a No. 1 seed in the West Region, Roby helped take Team Colorado to the Super 16 Round, but was defeated by Armored Athlete 84-75.^[6]

College statistics

|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2004-05| style="text-align:left;"| Colorado| 30 || 30 || 30.8 || .445 || .374 || .728|| 4.8 ||1.9 || 1.6 ||0.8 || 16.0|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2005-06| style="text-align:left;"| Colorado| 30 || 29 || 30.2 || .422 || .356 || .736|| 3.9 ||2.5 || 2.1 || 0.9 || 17.0|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2006-07| style="text-align:left;"| Colorado| 27 || 25 || 32.1 || .383 || .268 || .734|| 5.1 ||2.2 || 1.2 || 0.4 || 17.3|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2007-08| style="text-align:left;"| Colorado| 32 || 32 || 34.7 || .477 || .382 || .764|| 6.7 ||2.1 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 17.0|-|- class="sortbottom"! style="text-align:center;" colspan=2| Career! 119 || 116 ||32.0 || .431 || .347 || .742 || 5.5 || 2.2 ||1.5 || 0.8 || 16.8

NCAA Awards & Honors

All-Big 12 First Team - 2006
All-Big 12 Third Team - 2008
All-Big 12 Honorable Mention - 2005, 2007
Big 12 All-Freshman Team (Media) - 2005

Career statistics

NBA Summer League Stats

|-| align="left" | 2008-09| align="left" | NJN|2||0||4.8||.200||.000||.000||0.0||0.5||0.5||0.0||1.0|-| align="left" | 2009-10| align="left" | OKC|2||0||6.2||.200||.000||.000||0.0||0.0||1.0||0.0||0.0|-| align="left" | 2010-11| align="left" | DEN|5||4||21.9||.324||.200||.444||3.4||1.0||0.4||0.0||6.8|-|- class="sortbottom"! style="text-align:center;" colspan=2| Career! 9 || 4 ||14.6 || .283 || .167 || .444 || 2.0 || 0.7 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 4.0

Regular season

|-| align="left" | 2008-09| align="left" | Bnei|5||2||21.7||47.9||20.0||82.6||2.40||1.60||0.60||0.00||13.60|-| align="left" | 2009-10| align="left" | Maccabi Haifa |20 || ||17.7||52.4||29.0||55.2||2.6||1.3||0.9||0.2||8.9|-| align="left" | 2010-11| align="left" | Rio Grande|50||31||27.8||47.0||32.0||66.5||4.54||2.04||1.30||0.62||15.50|-| align="left" | 2011-12| align="left" | Peristeri|8||8||28.9||53.8||25.0||75.0||4.75||0.62||1.12||0.38||16.38|-| align="left" | 2011-12| align="left" | Fos Ouest|17||11||25.6||53.3||40.5||67.3||3.65||1.76||1.47||0.47||12.59|-| align="left" | 2012-13| align="left" | Estudiantes|15||14||35.4||49.8||43.1||78.5||3.93||1.13||1.13||0.60||18.47|-| align="left" | 2012-13| align="left" | Wonju|40||11||16.0||51.8||30.5||65.5||3.23||1.00||0.80||0.57||11.43|-| align="left" | 2012-13| align="left" | Gaiteros|19||19||30.1||52.5||31.6||70.9||4.74||2.11||1.63||0.53||15.89|-| align="left" | 2012-13| align="left" | Humacao|4||1||16.3||37.0||12.5||50.0||3.75||1.50||1.00||0.75||6.50|-| align="left" | 2013-14| align="left" | Akita|50||5||27.4||46.1||27.5||70.2||5.2||2.5||1.9||0.9||20.1|-| align="left" | 2014-15| align="left" | Akita|51||47||30.3||53.9||32.9||56.0||7.2||4.3||2.3||1.1||20.0|-| align="left" | 2015-16| align="left" | Akita|47||47||31.6||47.2||33.9||62.5||8.0||3.7||1.9||0.9||19.9|-| align="left" | 2016-17| align="left" | San-en|14 || 9 || 18.9 || 34.6 || 24.4 || 65.2 || 5.6 || 1.4 || 1.2 ||1.0||10.9|-| align="left" | 2016-17| align="left" | Osaka|39||5||12.6||42.8||29.2||45.9||2.9||0.9||0.7||0.5||8.0|-| align="left" | 2016-17| align="left" | Marinos|6||0||17.5||53.1||44.4||72.7||1.67||1.17||0.17||0.17||7.67|-| align="left" | 2017-18| align="left" | Soles|17||7||23.9||38.1||28.6||75.9||4.79||1.50||0.93||0.43||8.29|-| align="left" | 2018-19| align="left" | Shinshu|16||16||35.17||43.5||14.1||56.3||9.7||4.0||3.25||1.44||19.1

Playoffs

|-|style="text-align:left;"|2008-09|style="text-align:left;"|Bnei| 4 || || 18.3 || .448 || .250 || .300 || 2.3 || 0.3 || 2.0 || 0.3 ||7.8|-|style="text-align:left;"|2009-10|style="text-align:left;"|Haifa| 4 || || 10.0 || .105 || .000 || .500 || 1.8 || 0.3 || 0.3 || 0.8 ||1.5|-|style="text-align:left;"|2010-11|style="text-align:left;"|RGV| 8 || 1 || 25.7 || .453 || .200 || .558 || 4.75 || 1.88 || 1.38 || 1.00 ||14.25|-|style="text-align:left;"|2011-12|style="text-align:left;"|Fos| 6 || || 23.0 || .574 || .571 || .500 || 4.0 || 1.3 || 1.5 || 0.3 ||11.7|-|style="text-align:left;"|2012-13|style="text-align:left;"|Humacao| 4 || || 16.5 || .370 || .125 || .500 ||3.8 || 1.5 || 1.0 || 0.8 ||6.5|-|style="text-align:left;"|2013-14|style="text-align:left;"|Akita| 6 || || 26.67 || .474 || .345 || .636 || 6.5 || 2.17 || 2.17 || 1.67 ||19.0|-

International Awards & Honors

Greek HEBA A1 Round 1 MVP - 2011-2012

External links

Notes and References

https://web.archive.org/web/20160916132229/http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/recap?gameId=280740201 Colorado Buffaloes vs. Oklahoma Sooners - Recap - March 14, 2008 - ESPN
Web site: Serby's Saturday Q & A with… Kenyon Martin. 20 April 2013.
http://www.ridiculousupside.com/2010/6/28/1540775/nba-summer-league-rosters-vegas NBA Summer League Rosters - Vegas
Web site: Akita star Roby saw brother Martin, a longtime NBA standout, as inspiration. 2 April 2016.
richardxroby. Richard X Roby. 699040173946851328. 15 February 2016. Passed my drivers test ✔️!!.
Web site: Bracket The Basketball Tournament. www.thetournament.com. en. 2018-02-17.