Kennedy Winston

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Kennedy Winston (born July 29, 1984 in Prichard, Alabama) is an American professional basketball player currently with Türk Telekom of the Turkish League. A 6'6 3/4" (2.00 m) [1] small forward from the University of Alabama, Kennedy left college one year early to pursue his dreams of playing in the NBA. He was not drafted by an NBA team in 2005, so he took his game overseas to Europe. He is known mainly for his high flying scoring.

College

He was the top scorer with the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide for two seasons and he led the SEC conference in scoring in 2005, averaging 17.9 points per game. He was also a 2-time All-SEC first team player in both 2004 and 2005. He led his team to the NCAA tournament in both 2004 and 2005, advancing as far as the Elite Eight in one of the years.

Panionios BC

He played an important factor for his team Panionios BC in the 2006-07 season as he was the team's first scorer averaging 14.9 points per game, plus 3.2 rebounds, 2 assists, 1.2 steals and 2.3 turnovers per game in 32.3 minutes per game. He was the team's co-MVP that season along with teammate Stratos Perperoglou and at the end of the season they both landed contracts with the Greek power Panathinaikos BC.

Panathinaikos BC

In his first season with Panathinaikos BC, Winston averaged 8 points per game and 3.1 rebounds per game in 19 minutes per game. In the 2007-08 post season, in 10 games, he averaged 5.9 points per game and 2.6 rebounds per game in 16.2 minutes of play. ^[1] He drew the media's attention on February 17th, 2008, after scoring 26 points with 7-8 3-pointers made against Panathinaikos' arch rivals Olympiacos BC. With Panathinaikos he won the both Greek League and the Greek Cup titles that season.