KJ
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American basketball player
A.K.A.
Kevin Francis Joyce
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Male
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Birth:
27 June 1951(Bayside, Queens, New York City, USA)
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Archbishop Molloy High School
Queens, New York City, USA
University of South Carolina
Columbia, Richland County, USA
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Biography
Kevin Francis Joyce (born June 27, 1951) is a retired American basketball player.
A 6'3" guard born in Bayside, New York, Joyce played at the University of South Carolina. During the 1971 ACC Tournament championship game, he out-jumped North Carolina's 6'10" Lee Dedmon with seconds left to tap the ball to Tom Owens. who made a lay-up to complete a dramatic come-from-behind victory.
Joyce played at the 1972 Summer Olympics as a member of the United States national basketball team, who lost a highly controversial final game to the Soviet Union. The American team did not accept the silver medals. He later played professionally in the American Basketball Association as a member of the Indiana Pacers, San Diego Sails and Kentucky Colonels.