Adebayo Akinkunle

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Adebayo Akinkunle (born April 15, 1975 ) is a retired American basketball player .

career

The eight-foot-tall indoor player was a teenager on the basketball team at Morgan Park High School in Chicago before playing for Bradley University from 1994 to 1998 . In all four seasons in the first NCAA division, Akinkunle scored double-digit points and also posted some outstanding statistics in the rebounds and blocks categories. In his final season 1997/98 he came to averages of 18.5 points, 9.9 rebounds, 2.4 basket assists and 2.3 blocks per game. In the game year 1996/97 he even achieved an average of 3.4 blocked opposing throws per match. With 72 blocks in the 1996/97 season, he set a Bradley record and was in second place in the all-time best list when he left the university team for blocked throws. In 1998 he was named Defender of the Year at the Missouri Valley Conference . Akinkunle was named to Bradley's Basketball Team of the Decade for the 1990s and was inducted into the college's hall of fame .

The American began his professional career at the German second division club BCJ Hamburg and was the team's best scorer, but injured himself, so that the Hamburg team in the person of Mitchell “JJ” Anderson signed a replacement who temporarily replaced him. The season ended with Hamburg's promotion to the basketball league . Akinkunle also played in the top German league for BCJ and was invited to the Bundesliga all-star game thanks to his good performance for the newly promoted team. He got 14.1 points and 10.4 rebounds per encounter in 22 Bundesliga games. The Hamburgers had payment difficulties in the Bundesliga, which also affected Adinkunle.

After his time in Hamburg in China , the American played with the Zhejiang Horses and from 2002 to 2004 with the Japanese team Matsushita Electric Panasonic Kangaroos. In spring 2005 he returned to the Bundesliga and played ten missions for EnBW Ludwigsburg (3.7 points, 4.3 rebounds / game) by the end of the 2004/05 season . Then he ended his career.

In July 2012, Akinkunle hit the headlines in Chicago newspapers after his apartment was robbed and he was stolen, including more than $ 100,000 in cash and a car.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The News-Gazette: Bradley benefits by big blocker. Accessed August 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Adebayo Akinkunle College Stats. Accessed August 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Adebayo Akinkunle - Men's Basketball. Accessed August 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Christian Jess, Rainer Grünberg: Hope bearers with shoe size 55. (PDF; 1.7 MB) In: Hamburger Abendblatt. September 11, 1998, accessed August 26, 2019 .
  5. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: BCJ Tigers bring NBA star. January 2, 1999, accessed on August 26, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ BCJ-Tigers: Akinkunle's out, with "Grandpa" Anderson in the first division. April 7, 1999, accessed on August 26, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ BASKETBALL Akinkunle stays with the BCJ Tigers. Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg, June 16, 1999, accessed on August 26, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ HAMBUR G. Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg, December 20, 1999, accessed on August 26, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ a b 1502 Adebayo AKINKUNLE. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  10. ↑ BASKETBALL. Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg, June 3, 2000, accessed on August 26, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ Dave Reynolds: Former Bradley player Adebayo Akinkunle robbed in Chicago. Accessed August 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Akinkunle, Adebayo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1975