Aaron Brooks (basketball player)
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| Full name | Aaron Jamal Brooks | |
| birthday | 14th January 1985 (age 35) | |
| place of birth | Seattle , Washington , United States | |
| size | 183 cm | |
| Weight | 73 kg | |
| position | Point guard | |
| High school | Franklin, Seattle | |
| college | Oregon | |
| NBA draft | 2007 , 26th Pick, Houston Rockets | |
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2007–2011 Houston Rockets 2011 Phoenix Suns 2011–2012 Guangdong Southern Tigers ( ChBA ) 2012–2013 Sacramento Kings 2013–2014 Houston Rockets 2014 Denver Nuggets 2014–2016 Chicago Bulls 2016–2017 Indiana Pacers 2017–2018 Minnesota Timberwolves 
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Aaron Jamal Brooks (born January 14, 1985 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American basketball player who was active for most of his professional career in the NBA .
Career
High school
In his freshman year at Franklin High School in Seattle, Brooks averaged 7.6 points, second year 16.8 points, and third year 18.7 points. In his senior year he led the team with an average of 24.3 points, 7.0 assists, 3.3 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game to a season record of 25 wins with only two defeats and to winning the school championship in Washington . The final of the championship was largely shaped by the duel between Brooks and Adam Morrison : Brooks contributed 38 points to the 67:55 victory, Morrison scored 37 points. After the season he played (including against LeBron James ) at the McDonald's All-American Game, to which the 24 best high school players in the country are invited.
college
From 2003 to 2007 Brooks studied political science at the University of Oregon and played for the college team Ducks in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) of the NCAA . He took over the point guard position from Luke Ridnour, who moved to the NBA that same year, and was in the starting line-up right from the start of his college career. Despite missing ten games due to a broken carpal bone, he was named to the Pac-10 all-freshman team in his first year . On average he scored 7.0 points, his season best was 17 points against Stanford.
In his sophomore year, Brooks played all 27 games and led the Ducks in points (14.7 on average) and assists (4.7 on average). He was third-best in the league in terms of both assists and his free throw rate of 85.5%. The highlight of the season was a 90-83 win against the University of Southern California , in which he set the sophomore record of his university with 34 points. At the same time, this was the third highest score ever achieved by a point guard at the University of Oregon.
In the following season Brooks achieved his first double-double with 10 points and 10 assists against Howard , he also led the league in the statistics of assists per ball loss ( assists-to-turnover ratio ). Overall, however, he played weaker than the previous season: His season best was 20 points against the University of Southern California and his point average fell to 10.8. An inglorious highlight of the season was an elbow check in the quarterfinals of the Pac-10 tournament against the University of Washington , after which his opponent Ryan Appleby had to be sewn with six stitches on the upper lip. Brooks was excluded from the rest of the tournament and banned for two games of the following season.
His daughter was born shortly after the end of the season, which inspired him from then on: After the disappointing 2005/06 season, Brooks led the Ducks in his final college year with an average of 17.7 points (league top) to win the Pacific-10 Conference and to the quarterfinals ( Elite Eight ) of the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship tournament. His achievements earned him the appointment to the First-Team All-Pac-10 and the Wooden Award All-American Team .
NBA
Houston Rockets
In the 2007 NBA Draft , the Houston Rockets voted Brooks late in the first round, in 26th place in the draft . In his debut season, Brooks was a substitute: he was used in 51 of the 82 games and was used for an average of 12 minutes, with an average of 5.2 points. He was also used in the playoffs.
In the first half of the 2008/09 season, Brooks was increasingly used; In the middle of the season, shortly before the end of the transfer period, the then regular point guard of the Rockets, Rafer Alston , moved to the Orlando Magic as part of an exchange deal . So far only substitute players, Brooks found himself on the starting line-up. He justified the trust placed in him and achieved an average of 13.3 points and 3.7 assists in the other games of the season. Brooks was selected for the Rookie Challenge held as part of the All-Star Games fringe program, in which the best newcomers to the league compete against the best players in their second year in the NBA. In the playoffs Brooks got 16.8 points and 3.4 assists. So he led the Rockets in the first round to a 4-2 win against the higher-seeded Portland Trail Blazers and in the second round, including 34 points in Game 4, to a narrow 3-4 defeat against the Los Angeles Lakers , the later master.
In the 2009/10 season Brooks started in all 82 games and came to an average playing time of 35.6 minutes. On January 13, 2010, he set a new career record with 43 points in a game against the Minnesota Timberwolves won after three extra times , and on March 17 against the Memphis Grizzlies with 7 threes from 7 attempts, a new team record in successful three-point throws without fail. By the end of the season, Brooks had scored 209 threes, the highest number of threes in the league (which also set a new team record for the Houston Rockets) and became only the sixth player in NBA history to score at least 200 three-point throws and at least 400 assists in the same season . He increased his points yield from 11.2 to 19.6 and his assists from 3.0 to 5.3 per game. By a large margin, he was voted Most Improved Player of the season in a vote organized by the NBA at the end of the season among 123 sports journalists .
Early in the 2010/11 season , in the fifth game of the season, Brooks injured his ankle and had to take a month and a half off. He was struggling to get back in shape and lost his job as a regular point guard to his substitute Kyle Lowry . More and more frustrated with the reservist role, Brooks negotiated a one-game suspension by the Rockets in the game against the Memphis Grizzlies on February 5, 2011, when he was substituted 6:45 minutes before the end, directly in the Cabin disappeared instead of taking a seat on the bench.
Phoenix Suns / Guangdong Southern Tigers
On February 24, 2011 Brooks was transferred to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for Goran Dragic and a first round pick , where he was used as a second point guard behind the two-time MVP Steve Nash in 26 games and was able to improve his performance again.
On November 17, 2011, in view of the NBA lockout, he signed a contract for one season with the Guangdong Southern Tigers in China, based on a corresponding rule of the CBA without a release clause. He was runner-up with the Southern Tigers.
Return to the NBA
After his contract in China expired, Brooks returned to the NBA for the 2012/13 season and signed a contract with the Sacramento Kings . There he came from the bank as the second point guard behind Isaiah Thomas . In the meantime he took over his place on the starting grid, but could not meet the expectations placed on him and lost his place again to Thomas, and Jimmer Fredette got more and more playing time at the expense of him.
When Sacramento had Toney Douglas , another point guard, received in the course of a player swap , the team agreed with him in early March 2013 to terminate his contract - shortly before a deadline according to which he would no longer be in the playoffs for another team would have been eligible to play. Brooks then returned to Houston, where he signed a contract for the remainder of the season with a team option for another season. This option was not used by the Rockets and the contract ended after a few months. Before the new season he signed again in Houston.
In February 2014, Brooks was transferred from the Rockets to the Denver Nuggets before signing a contract with the Chicago Bulls after the end of the season. After the season 2016/17 for the Indiana Pacers had played, he signed in September 2017 a contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves . He played for the Wolves until the end of the 2017/18 season .
Since 2019
After a break of about a year, Brooks signed a deal with the Illawarra Hawks of the Australian NBL in June 2019 .
family
Brooks is married and has three daughters (* 2006 and twins * 2010). His older brother Alvertis Brooks Jr. also played basketball in Seattle University's college team , Redhawks , which at the time only played in Division II of the NCAA . Accordingly, his brother did not start a professional career as a basketball player.
Web links
- Aaron Brooks - player profile on basketball-reference.com
- Aaron Brooks - GoDucks.com - Profile on the University of Oregon Sports Websites (English)
- Aaron Brooks: The NBA's Next Top Point Guard - Portrait in Dime Magazine January 25, 2010 by Jack Jensen (English)
supporting documents
- ↑ A sitting duck vs. Huskies . Article in the Seattle Times , Jan. 24, 2007.
- ↑ Aaron Brooks, The NBA's Next Top Point Guard Article in Dime Magazine , Jan. 25, 2010.
- ↑ a b Houston's Brooks takes home award for most improved (NBA website; New York, April 22, 2010) ( Memento of February 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Entry on Brooks at Basketball-Reference.com
- ^ Rockets guard Brooks suspended for walking off court . Article on the Houston Chronicle website February 6, 2011
- ↑ nba.com: Rockets' Brooks traded to Suns ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Adrian Wojnarowski: Suns' Brooks signs deal to play in China. On: Yahoo website; Sunnyvale, CA, November 17, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2017 (in English).
- ↑ Jason Jones: Kings notes: Point guard Brooks waived (The Sacramento Bee, March 3, 2013) ( Memento November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Aaron Brooks finalizes contract with Houston Rockets USA Today , March 4, 2013
- ↑ Timberwolves sign Aaron Brooks , nba.com, last viewed November 3, 2017
- ↑ National Basketball League | NBL. Retrieved April 23, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Rockets notes: Ariza returns for first game since trade . Article on the Houston Chronicle website , Nov. 3, 2010
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brooks, Aaron |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brooks, Aaron Jamal (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle , Washington , United States |