Royce O'Neale

Royce O’Neale is an American professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball at Baylor University. O’Neale was undrafted in the 2015 NBA draft, but eventually signed with the Jazz in 2017 and has become a key contributor for the team since then.

Born on December 27, 1992 in Killeen, Texas to parents Charles and Jaunita O’Neal, Royce grew up playing multiple sports including football, baseball and track before ultimately focusing on basketball during his high school career. After graduating from Harker Heights High School in 2011 he attended Sumner College where he averaged 10 points and 5 rebounds per game as a freshman before transferring to Boise State University. During his time at Boise State he made an immediate impact for their program – leading them to two NCAA tournaments before being named Mountain West Conference Player of the Year as a senior after averaging 15 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists/game that season.

Following his collegiate success, Royce declared for 2015 NBA Draft but went undrafted. He joined Caceres Basket of Spain’s Liga ACB league instead where he had significant success over two seasons (averaging 11 points/game) while also playing internationally with Germany’s sOliver Baskets Wurzburg which resulted in him being crowned MVP of both teams by FIBA Europe Cup competitions in 2016 & 2017 respectively.

In July 2017 O’Neale signed with Utah Jazz – initially getting allocated to their G-League affiliate Salt Lake City Stars where once again proved himself a valuable player by helping them win Championship title becoming voted Finals Most Valuable Player by averaging 16 points/game during playoffs while shooting 60% from 3-point line over 6 games thus earning him call up back to parent club mid way through 2018–19 season making first appearance against Los Angeles Lakers on January 23 2019.. From then on Royce saw more court time moving into starting role alongside Donovan Mitchell & Rudy Gobert helping lead team deep into playoffs while setting personal bests across all categories such as appearances (79), minutes (1895), field goals percentage(47%), three point percentage(40%) as well as steals&blocks recorded both higher than any previous year throughout his carrer so far .

In 2020 Royce re-signed with Utah Jazz keeping him there until 2023 ,while also putting pen onto paper about participation in Team USAs 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games qualifying squad . Whilst clearly establishing himself within wider NBA sphere it seems like we yet have much more to see from this talented young combo guard who continues posting career highs every season .