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K. C. Rivers

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Kelvin Creswell Rivers, known as K. C. Rivers, was born on 1 March 1987 and is a former American professional basketball player who last played for Fuerza Regia of the LNBP. At 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) he played at the shooting guard and small forward positions. He attended Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, where his team won two USA Today national high school championships and he set the school record of 15 three-point field goals in a game, and he then played four seasons of college basketball at Clemson University. After going undrafted in the 2009 NBA draft he played in Italy for AB Latina, Benetton Treviso and Virtus Bologna, in France for Chorale Roanne and in Russia for Lokomotiv Kuban and Khimki, with a spell in the NBA D-League with the Reno Bighorns in 2013 to 2014. He spent the 2014 to 2015 season with Real Madrid, which reached the EuroLeague Final Four, won the EuroLeague title and also took the Spanish League championship. He later played for Bayern Munich, Panathinaikos, Crvena zvezda, Žalgiris Kaunas, Zenit Saint Petersburg, Hapoel Jerusalem, BC Samara and Fuerza Regia.

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    is a former American professional basketball player
  • Competed In: EuroLeague, Professional career, Real Madrid
    Rivers helped his team to secure its third straight EuroLeague Finals appearance
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