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Kevin Owens (basketball)

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American basketball player, writer and podcaster
Personal information
Born (1980-06-09) June 9, 1980 (age 44)
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
NationalityAmerican
Listed height213 cm (7 ft 0 in)
Listed weight118 kg (264 lb)
Career information
High schoolCamden Catholic
(Cherry Hill, New Jersey)
CollegeMonmouth (1999–2021)
NBA draft2003: undrafted
Playing career2003–2010
PositionCenter
Number8
Career history
2003–2006Roanoke Dazzle
2006–2007Cairns Taipans
2007Ulsan Mobis Phoebus
2008Wellington Saints
2009Sigal Prishtina
2012BC Kalev/Cramo

Kevin Owens (born (1980-06-09)June 9, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player, author and podcaster.

In 2009 Owens played with Sigal Prishtina of the Kosovo Super League. Prior to that Owens played for the Wellington Saints in Wellington, New Zealand and the Ulsan Mobis Phoebus in Ulsan, South Korea of the Korean Basketball League. In the 2006–2007 season Owens played for the Cairns Taipans in Cairns, Australia. Before playing in Australia, Owens played three seasons with the Roanoke Dazzle in the NBA Development League, a minor league system for the National Basketball Association.

Born in Haddonfield, New Jersey, Owens attended Camden Catholic High School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He played Division I college basketball at Monmouth University.

At the tail end of his career and immediately after, Owens was a basketball writer/contributor for a number of publications including SLAM Online and SB Nation.

In August 2021, Owens published a collection of stories about his overseas basketball experiences titled Overseas Famous, forwarded by former NBA star and Owens' former coach Chucky Brown, with advanced praise by Lang Whitaker.

References

  1. Eurobasket player profile: Kevin Owens
  2. Kevin Owens: player profile
  3. Kevin Owens: Player profile
  4. NBDL Player Profile: Kevin Owens Archived 2008-02-03 at the Wayback Machine, accessed December 24, 2006
  5. Owens, Kevin. "Kevin Owens, Author at SLAM". SLAM. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  6. "Kevin Owens Profile and Activity - SB Nation Philly". philly.sbnation.com. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  7. McGurk, Tom. "South Jersey hoops star Owens pens book on life as a true globetrotter". Courier-Post. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  8. "From NCAAs to fearing for his life on the court, Kevin Owens has seen it all in basketball". www.audacy.com. 2022-03-09. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  9. Owens, Kevin (2021-08-16). Overseas Famous: The Travels and Tribulations of a Basketball Globetrotter (1st ed.). Overseas Famous LLC.

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