Aron Royé (born 3 April 1988) is a Dutch

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player who last played for

Apollo Amsterdam Apollo Amsterdam is a professional basketball team based in Amsterdam. The club plays its games in the BNXT League, the Dutch top league. The club was founded in 2011 and has been playing in the highest national level for years. The amateur sectio ...

in the

Dutch Basketball League The Dutch Basketball League (DBL), formerly the Eredivisie, was the highest professional basketball league in the Netherlands, run by the Federatie Eredivisie Basketball (FEB). Since 2021, the league has been replaced by the Belgian-Dutch BNXT Le ...

(DBL).

Career

Royé started his career in

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...

with

Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden ZZ Leiden Basketball, also known as Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden, is a basketball club based in Leiden, Netherlands. The club plays in the BNXT League, the domestic first tier league. Their home games are played at Vijf Meihal, which has 2,000 seats ...

. After two seasons, Royé left for the

Hanzevast Capitals Donar, also known as Donar Groningen, is a professional basketball club based in Groningen, Netherlands. The club competes in the BNXT League and its home arena is MartiniPlaza, which has a seating capacity of 4,350 people. Donar is one of t ...

from

Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

. With the club from Groningen, that later played under the name GasTerra Flames, Royé won the national championship in 2010 and the

Dutch Cup The KNVB Beker (; en, KNVB Cup), branded as the TOTO KNVB Beker for sponsorship reasons, is a competition in the Netherlands organized by the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) since 1898. It was based on the format of the English FA Cup. Ou ...

in 2011. In the summer of 2011 Royé decided to play for amateur team

in the Dutch

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. When Apollo turned professional in 2012, Royé reentered the Dutch Basketball League. In his first season with Amsterdam, Royé averaged 16.3 points per game, which made him fourth best scorer in the DBL. He also made the All-Star Team that year. In August 2013 his contract was extended. On 11 July 2014 Royé signed a 2-year deal with

Port of Den Helder Kings BV Den Helder was a professional basketball club from Den Helder, Netherlands. The team had several seasons in the Dutch Basketball League, the highest professional league in the Netherlands. The club is currently inactive, however Den Helder ...

. In December, Kings went bankrupt and Royé transferred to his former team, Apollo Amsterdam. On 31 May 2017 Royé signed a 2-year contract for a second stint with

Donar Thor (; from non, Þórr ) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding æsir, god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology, sacred groves ...

. On 28 December Royé left Donar. On 12 January 2018 Royé returned to Apollo Amsterdam.

3x3 Basketball

Royé played with the Dutch national

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team at the

2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup The 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup, hosted by the Philippines, was an international 3x3 basketball event that featured separate competitions for men's and women's national teams. The tournament ran between 8 and 12 June 2018 in Bocaue, Bulacan, just nort ...

, where he won a silver medal. He played his second tournament in the

2019 FIBA 3x3 World Cup The 2019 FIBA 3x3 World Cup, hosted by the Netherlands, was an international 3x3 basketball event that featured separate competitions for men's and women's national teams. The tournament ran between 18 and 23 June 2019 in Amsterdam, North Holland. ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roye, Aron 1988 births Living people Apollo Amsterdam players Den Helder Kings players Donar (basketball club) players Dutch Basketball League players Dutch men's basketball players Point guards Basketball players from Amsterdam B.S. Leiden players 3x3 basketball players