Randy Foye
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| Position | Shooting guard |
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| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight | 213 lb (97 kg) |
| Born | September 24, 1983 Newark, New Jersey |
| Pro career | 2006 – present |
Randy Foye (born September 24, 1983 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American professional basketball player who played for Villanova University. He was selected seventh overall in the 2006 NBA Draft by the Boston Celtics, immediately traded to the Portland Trail Blazers, and later traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Foye attended East Side High School, where he was selected as New Jersey Player of the Year, before being recruited by Jay Wright and Villanova.
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[edit] Villanova
Foye, along with Allan Ray, Jason Fraser, and Curtis Sumpter were proclaimed as the players to lead the Wildcats back to a championship. Foye and Ray reached the Elite Eight of the 2006 NCAA Tournament, playing with the other three starters in the four-guard offense; Mike Nardi, Kyle Lowry, and Allan Ray.
Foye's career has been extremely productive and eventful at Villanova, but his senior season has been by far the best.
At 6-4 and 205 pounds, Foye is an averaged sized guard. However, he is also notable for being a unique kind of player, as he is one of the few college players who shoots just as well when being defended heavily, as when he is wide open. Analysts have also proclaimed him one of the best in the game at creating his own shot, and creating for others [citation needed].
In the 2005 NCAA Tournament, Foye averaged 20 points in three games, before a heartbreaking loss to 1 seed and eventual national champion North Carolina in which Foye scored 28 points. Villanova lost 67-66, the closest any team ever got to North Carolina in the tournament. He was named third-team all Big East that year
In 2006, Foye's career took off and he won the honor of Big East Player of the Year, beating out teammate Allan Ray, Connecticut star Rudy Gay and the league's leading scorer Quincy Douby of Rutgers.
Villanova tied for the Big East regular season championship with Uconn and split their two games with the Huskies, winning the one played at home, in what some called the biggest Villanova win in over 20 years. Their final Big East regular season record was 14-2 in what some called the toughest conference ever. Overall, their record was 28-5. In the NCAA Tournament in 2006, Foye continued to be Villanova's biggest scoring threat, along with Ray. He had 24 points in their second round game against Arizona as they got the win 82-78. Foye scored a team-high 25 points in his final game as a Wildcat, a 75-62 loss to Florida in the Elite Eight. As a Senior Averaged 20.5 Points 5.9 Rebounds 3.3 Assist 1.4 Steals and 0.6 Blocks. He is also known for his.
[edit] Medical notes
In June 2006, it was reported that Foye has the rare condition situs inversus, which means his organs are arranged as the mirror image of a normal person's: for example, his heart is in the right side of his chest rather than the left. However, it is not expected that this fact will have an impact on his game. [1]
[edit] Family
Foye's father Antonio was killed in a motorcycle accident when Randy was three. Three years later, his mother Regina dropped him off at kindergarten, and Randy and his brother never saw her again. Foye doesn't know what happened to her. However, Foye had a neighbor and friend who was very close to him, and showed him how to play basketball. Foye keeps alive the hope that he will someday see his mother again, and even had an image of her face permanently tattooed onto his bicep,
