Tyron McCoy

Clement Tyron McCoy (born November 20, 1972) is an American professional basketball coach and former professional basketball player.

Playing career

A 6'5'' guard from Bethune, South Carolina, McCoy attended Bethune High School before enrolling at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1991. He scored 1,456 points over the span of his four-year career at VCU, leading the Rams in points per game (15.2) as a senior.

Upon graduation in 1995, McCoy spent 13 years playing professionally in Austria, Malta and Germany. In his ten years in the German top-flight Basketball Bundesliga, he registered 4,792 points in 285 games played, representing MTV Gießen, TV Lich, the Frankfurt Skyliners, EWE Baskets Oldenburg and Bayer Leverkusen. McCoy’s career accolades include four Bundesliga All-Star appearances (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005), five Eurobasket.com All-Bundesliga Imports First Team selections (1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005) and two Eurobasket.com All-Bundesliga Defensive Team selections (2000, 2001).

In September 2010, he had his jersey number 14 retired by the Oldenburg team and was added to the club's Hall of Fame.

Coaching career

McCoy’s career on the sidelines began in 2008 as an assistant coach at German Bundesliga side EnBW Ludwigsburg. Following a two-year stint at Ludwigsburg, he served as an assistant with the Artland Dragons from 2010 to 2013, before being promoted to the head coach position prior to the 2013-14 campaign. He guided the Dragons to a trip to the 2014 Bundesliga semifinals, ending the reign of four-time champion Bamberg in the quarterfinals. McCoy was a coach at the 2014 Bundesliga All-Star game and received 2014 Eurobasket.com All-Bundesliga Coach of the Year honors. The Artland Dragons withdrew from Germany’s top-flight at the conclusion of the 2014-15 season, which ended McCoy’s tenure as head coach of the Quakenbrück-based club.

In December 2015, he took over as head coach of another German Bundesliga team, the Walter Tigers Tübingen.