Bradley Buckman

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Basketball player
Bradley Buckman
Player information
Full name Bradley Bond Buckman
Nickname Brad
birthday January 11, 1984 (36 years and 234 days)
place of birth Austin , Texas , United States
size 203 cm
position Power Forward / Small Forward
college Texas at Austin
Club information
society Beşiktaş JK Istanbul
league Türkiye Basketbol Ligi
Jersey number 22nd
Clubs as active
2002–2006 Texas Longhorns ( NCAA ) 2006–2007 Austin Toros 2008 CSU Cluj-Napoca 2008 Keravnos Strovolou 2009 Hapoel Gilboa Galil 2009–2010 Kepez BSK 2010 Deutsche Bank Skyliners 2011 Antalya BŞB 2011–2012 Tofaş SK Bursa 2012 Cajasol Sevilla 2013 Artland Dragons Since 2013 Beşiktaş JK IstanbulUnited StatesUnited States
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Bradley Bond Buckman (born March 15, 1981 in Austin , Texas ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his hometown, Buckman first played in the NBA Development League (D-League) for the Austin Toros before continuing his career in Europe in 2008. In addition to stations in Romania , Cyprus , Israel and Spain , he mainly played in the Turkish league Türkiye Basketbol Ligi (TBL). For short-term contracts, Buckman was also active twice in the German basketball league for the Skyliners Frankfurt and the Artland Dragons.

Career

Buckman last went to school in a suburb of his hometown, where after graduating from high school he was invited to the selection of the best school basketball players in the country for the "McDonald's All-American Game". He then began studying at the University of Texas at Austin , where he was active for the Longhorns college team in the Big 12 Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Here Buckman was able to achieve solid personal statistics without recommending himself to a contract as a professional. In the Big 12 Conference, the Longhorns won the 2006 regular season in Buckman's last year of college, but lost the final game in the championship tournament as in 2004. For the national NCAA finals , the Longhorns were consistently qualified and reached the 2003 Final Four tournament in Buckman's first season , where they lost in the semifinals to the eventual winner Orangemen of Syracuse University with Most Outstanding Player Carmelo Anthony . After they eliminated Sweet Sixteen a year later in the round of 16, they were eliminated in the first round in 2005. After the good results in the Big 12, in 2006 they again achieved a higher classification for the final round and the team, which also included the later NBA and Bundesliga professional PJ Tucker , reached the regional final Elite Eight , but against the Tigers from Louisiana State University was lost.

After graduating from college, Buckman was invited to play for the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Summer League . Here, however, he could not recommend himself for a contract in the highest endowed professional league NBA , but the local professional club Austin Toros from the D-League took him under contract for the 2006/07 season. After the tragic death of head coach Dennis Johnson , who died of a heart attack after training in February 2007, the team was unable to place itself among the best teams in the league. The Toros were then taken over by the San Antonio Spurs and Buckman had no new contract at the beginning of the 2007/08 season. So he finally accepted a contract offer from Europe in January 2008 and played in the Romanian Divizia A for the university sports club from Cluj-Napoca , which was eliminated at the end of the season in the play-offs for the championship in the first round.

For the following season 2008/09 Buckman stayed in Europe and initially played for the Cypriot champions Keravnos Strovolou in the capital Nicosia . After leaving the EuroChallenge 2008/09 , Buckman moved to Israel in January 2009 in the Ligat ha'Al to Hapoel Altshuler from Gilboa . In the semi-finals of the Final Four tournament, Gilboa Galil just missed a surprise after a defeat by only two points against series champion Maccabi Tel Aviv , which they then succeeded a year later. Buckman himself played the 2009/10 season in Turkey for the basketball team from Kepez, among other things, together with the two-time Bundesliga MVP Jovo Stanojević . However, both could not prevent the team from being relegated as penultimate after only ten wins this season in 30 games.

The 2010/11 season began Buckman with a fixed-term four-week short-term contract in the basketball league for Deutsche Bank Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main when he was signed for an injured colleague shortly before the start of the season. After the contract period had expired and the players had recovered, the Frankfurters waived a further commitment at the end of October and Buckman returned to the Turkish league in January 2011, where he made it into the championship with Kepez's local rival from Antalya in eighth place. Play-offs reached. Here, however, they were eliminated in the first round against defending champion Fenerbahçe Ülker . For the 2011/12 season Buckman stayed in Turkey and played in Bursa for Tofaş SK, who also reached eighth place and were eliminated in the first play-off round against Galatasaray Medical Park . Buckman himself was one of the most effective players in the TBL this season.

For the 2012/13 season Buckman initially got a contract in the Spanish ACB league with Cajasol from Seville . After only five missions, he left the club in December 2012 and instead got a new contract in the German Bundesliga in January 2013. With the Dragons from the Artland community he reached the championship play-offs in sixth place in the final table, in which, however, they lost smoothly in the first round against the previous runner-up ratiopharm Ulm . For the 2013/14 season he returned to Turkey and joined Beşiktaş JK from Istanbul .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player Alumni List 12-2013: Boy's Alumni. (PDF (280 kB)) McDonaldsAllAmerican.com, February 11, 2013, accessed on June 14, 2013 (English, list of former participants).
  2. ↑ Thomas Nawrath: DEUTSCHE BANK SKYLINERS sign Bradley Buckman. Skyliners Frankfurt , September 29, 2009, accessed on June 14, 2013 (media info).
  3. ↑ Brad Buckman - Turkish Basketball League Player: 2011–2012 Regular Season. TBLStat.net, accessed on June 14, 2013 (English, seasonal statistics).
  4. ↑ ACB.COM: Bradley Buckman. Liga ACB , accessed June 14, 2013 (Spanish, player profile).
  5. ↑ Winfried Beckmann: Dragons: Very good guy and fighter - Buckman should fix it. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , January 24, 2013, accessed on October 14, 2015 .
  6. ↑ NN: Besiktas adds size with Buckman ( Memento of November 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived from the EuroCup website; Barcelona, ​​July 29, 2013. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Buckman, Bradley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buckman, Bradley Bond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Austin, Texas , USA