Terrell Lyday (born August 12, 1979) is an American former professional
basketball
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player. Standing at , he played at the
shooting guard position.
College career
Lyday played
college basketball
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at
Fresno CC (
NJCAA
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), from 1997 to 1999, and at
BYU
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(
NCAA Division I
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), from 1999 to 2001.
Professional career
Lyday started his professional career in 2001 with Polish club
Unia Tarnów. For the 2002–03 he moved to Turkish club
Galatasaray
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. For the 2003–04 season he signed with French club
Cholet
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, and for the next season he also played in France but with
ASVEL
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. In the 2005–06 season he played with Russian club
Ural Great and won the
FIBA EuroCup Challenge
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.
In the 2006–07 season he played with Italian club
Benetton Treviso and won the
Italian Cup
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and the
Supercup. In the 2007–08 season he played with Russian club
Triumph Lyubertsy
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. In June 2008, he signed with Russian club
UNICS Kazan
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. With UNICS he won the
Russian Cup in 2009. In 2011, he won the
EuroCup, and was named to the
All-EuroCup First Team of the
2010–11 season. In June 2011, he extended his contract with UNICS Kazan for two more years.
Unics Kazan keeps All-Eurocup guard Lyday.
/ref> After the end of the 2012–13 season, he finished his professional career.
References
External links
Terrell Lyday
at euroleague.net
Terrell Lyday
at legabasket.it
Terrell Lyday
at lnb.fr
Terrell Lyday
at tblstat.net
Terrell Lyday
at vtb-league.com
*
1979 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American expatriate basketball people in Poland
American expatriate basketball people in Russia
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
American men's basketball players
ASVEL Basket players
Basketball players from California
BC UNICS players
BC Zenit Saint Petersburg players
BYU Cougars men's basketball players
Cholet Basket players
Fresno City Rams men's basketball players
Galatasaray S.K. (men's basketball) players
Pallacanestro Treviso players
PBC Ural Great players
Shooting guards
Sportspeople from Fresno, California
Unia Tarnów basketball players
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