Know Your Team: Kemy Osse

Saint John Riptide

6'1

Guard

From Montreal, Quebec

Already highly experienced and played at some of basketball's highest levels, it's no wonder why Kemy Osse hit the ground running in his NBL Canada rookie season.

Osse has shown basketball skill from an early age. He was team MVP of the Archbishop Carroll Lions in his senior year, and he represented Canada at the 2010 Under-18 Americas Championship, where he was the third-highest overall scorer and helped the team take home bronze.

It isn't the only bronze medal he has won for Canada either, as he won the same prize at the 2010 Nike Global Challenge, where he played alongside future stars of Canadian basketball, such as Andrew Wiggins, Khem Birch and Kyle Wiltjer.

At age 19, Osse joined the Little Rock Trojans. In his five years in NCAA Division 1, he averaged his best results - 9.1 points and 3.3 rebounds per game - in his senior year, the same year he was the tenth-best three-point shooter in the Sun Belt division.

He also reached the second round of the 2016 Division 1 championship after Little Rock won a memorable double-overtime victory against Purdue (they would go on to lose to Iowa State).

Osse turned professional in 2017, and signed with the Island Storm. His ability to score and work the defensive boards saw him quickly become a big role player for the team, and he finished averaging 9.9 points and 4.6 rebounds in the season, and played a big part in the Storm turning their season around to reach the playoffs.

Osse left the Storm in the off-season, but not the league. Joining the Saint John Riptide (where he will be reunited with his old Little Rock teammate Mareik Isom), his multiple talents will now be on show at the Harbour Centre.

Picture: Jason Malloy