Geoffrey Gray (ג'פרי גריי; born May 15, 1997) is an

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professional basketball player for

Ironi Kiryat Ata Maccabi Ironi Kiryat Ata ( he, מכבי עירוני קריית אתא) is an Israeli football club, located in Kiryat Ata. They play in Liga Alef and play at the Kiryat Ata Municipal Stadium. History The club was originally based in Acre and ...

in the

Israeli Basketball Premier League Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional sports, professional competition in Israeli sports club, club basketball, making ...

, who plays the position of

Point guard The point guard (PG), also called the one or the point, is one of the five Basketball positions, positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position. Point guards are expected to run t ...

Personal life

Gray was born in Boston, Massachusetts, his hometown is

Newton, Massachusetts Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is approximately west of downtown Boston. Newton resembles a patchwork of thirteen villages, without a city center. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the population of Ne ...

, and he is Jewish. His parents are Howard Gray and Susan Phillips-Gray. He is 6' 2" (1.88 m) tall.

Basketball career

Gray attended

Newton South High School Newton South High School is one of two public high schools in the city of Newton, Massachusetts, United States, the other being Newton North. History and student life By the late 1950s, Newton's sole public high school, Newton High, grew to 3,00 ...

, graduating in 2015. He then attended

Emerson College Emerson College is a private college with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. It also maintains campuses in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and Well, Limburg, Netherlands ( Kasteel Well). Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a ...

(Class of 2019), majoring in Marketing Communications, and playing for the Lions. In 2016–17 in Gray's sophomore year he averaged 18.0 points per game, and was ranked within the top 10 of seven

New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states of Connecticut and M ...

categories: rebounds per game (3rd; 8.2), points per game (3rd), points (4th), free throw percentage (4th), assists (5th), assists per game (6th; 3.4), and field goal percentage (7th). He was named NEWMAC Men's Basketball Second Team All-Conference, and to NEWMAC Men's Basketball Academic All-Conference team. In 2017–18, he averaged 21.1 points per game, and in 2018–19 he averaged 20.4 points per game. He played for Hapoel Eilat of the

from 2019 to 2020. Gray plays for

in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, having joined in 2020.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gray, Geoffrey Living people American men's basketball players Israeli men's basketball players Israeli Basketball Premier League players Sportspeople from Newton, Massachusetts Point guards Jewish American sportspeople 1997 births American expatriate basketball people in Israel Basketball players from Boston Emerson Lions men's basketball players Jewish men's basketball players Jewish Israeli sportspeople Israeli people of American-Jewish descent 21st-century American Jews