Jessey Voorn (born 17 March 1990 in
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...
) is a Dutch professional
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
player who last played for
Heroes Den Bosch
Heroes Den Bosch is a Dutch professional basketball club based in 's-Hertogenbosch. The club plays in the BNXT League since 2021 and in the top basketball division in the Netherlands since 1972. Founded as EBBC in 1951, the club had several spons ...
. Voorn is 6 ft 4 tall and plays the
shooting guard position.
Professional career
Voorn started his professional career with
ABC Amsterdam in 2007, where he was mainly on the bench at first. With Amsterdam he won the Dutch championship in 2009. When the club was forced to play without foreign players, Voorn got major minutes with ABC. In the 2010-11 season Voorn averaged 13.7 points per game in the
Dutch Basketball League.
After his break-out season, the club from Amsterdam went bankrupt and Voorn went to
Groningen to play for the
GasTerra Flames
GasTerra is a Dutch partially state-owned company that is active in the worldwide trade and supply of natural gas. It is owned by Royal Dutch Shell (25%), ExxonMobil (25%) and the Dutch government (50%). Its history dates back to 2005, when the com ...
. After the 2013–14 season, Voorn left Groningen.
He signed with
Canarias Basketball Academy in January 2015.
For the 2014–15 season, Voorn signed with
Landstede Basketbal
Landstede Hammers is a Dutch basketball club based in Zwolle. The club plays in the BNXT League, the Dutch top tier division. The club was founded as Cees Lubbers The Hammers in 1995. In 1999, the club’s name was changed into Landstede Hammers. ...
.
On 1 July 2016, he signed a two-year deal 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 ...
.
On 14 June 2018, Voorn signed a two-year contract with
New Heroes Den Bosch
Heroes Den Bosch is a Dutch professional basketball club based in 's-Hertogenbosch. The club plays in the BNXT League since 2021 and in the top basketball division in the Netherlands since 1972. Founded as EBBC in 1951, the club had several spons ...
. On 15 November 2019, Voorn and Den Bosch agreed to part ways.
3x3 basketball
In 2020, Voorn joined the
Netherlands national 3x3 team. He played at the
2020 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July.
Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...
in Tokyo, where the team finished in the fifth place.
References
External links
Jessey Voornat
RealGM
RealGM.com is a sports website created in 2000. The site was originally a basketball site, but has since expanded its scope to provide information about American football, baseball, ice hockey and soccer. According to Alexa, the site ranked in th ...
{{DEFAULTSORT:Voorn, Jessey
1990 births
Living people
Amsterdam Basketball players
Donar (basketball club) players
Heroes Den Bosch players
Dutch Basketball League players
Dutch men's basketball players
Landstede Hammers players
Shooting guards
Basketball players from Amsterdam
B.S. Leiden players
3x3 basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic 3x3 basketball players for the Netherlands