Brian Conklin

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Basketball player
Brian Conklin
Conklin 2017 in the Nanterre jersey
Player information
birthday 5th September 1989
place of birth Eugene (OR), USA
size 198 cm
position Power forward
college Saint Louis
Club information
society Limoges CSP
league LNB Pro A
Jersey number 14th
Clubs as active
2008–2012 Saint Louis Bilikens ( NCAA ) 2013 Southland Sharks (NBL NZ) 2013–2014 Townsville Crocodiles 2014 Southland Sharks (NBL NZ) 2014–2015 Townsville Crocodiles 2015 Cangrejeros de Santurce ( BSN ) 2015 Townsville Crocodiles 2016 Piratas de Quebradillas (BSN) 2016 Leones de Santo Domingo 2016–2017 Nanterre 92 Since 2017 Limoges CSPUnited StatesUnited States
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Brian Conklin (born September 5, 1989 in Eugene , Oregon ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Conklin started a professional career in New Zealand and Australia , where he played for the Southland Sharks, with whom he won a New Zealand championship, and Townsville Crocodiles for a total of a good two years until 2015 and was named MVP of the NBL 2014 / 15 reached. Via Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic , where he also won a championship with the Leones de Santo Domingo, he finally moved to France , where he first played for Nanterre 92 in the LNB Pro A 2016/17 and with this team the Coupe de France and won the FIBA Europe Cup 2016/17 . In the new season LNB Pro A 2017/18 Conklin plays for the league rivals and old champions Limoges CSP.

Career

Conklin graduated from North Eugene High School in his hometown , where the exceptional athlete and later MLB and NBA professional Danny Ainge graduated. For the first time since Ainge, the basketball school team with Conklin reached a national championship again in 2007 after a 30-year break. After graduating from school a year later, Conklin went to study at Saint Louis University , where he played for the Bilikens college team from 2008 to 2012 in the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Bilikens from the Midwest , who had only become a member of this conference three years earlier, missed the first-time title win of this conference under coach Rick Majerus . Instead, they played in the 2010 postseason for the first time in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI), in which they moved into the finals. The final play-offs in " best-of-three " mode , however, were won in two games by the Rams of Virginia Commonwealth University . Almost two years later, the Bilikens reached the qualification for the national NCAA finals for the first time under Majerus' aegis, and also for the last time after his death almost nine months later , although they had lost the semi-finals of the A-10 championship as second in the conference. After winning the opening game over the Tigers of the University of Memphis , the Bilikens lost their second game by just four points against the top-seeded Spartans of Michigan State University , who among other things thanks to a double-double of the later NBA All- Stars and Olympic gold medalist Draymond Green saved for the next round. After the end of his NCAA career, Conklin could not recommend himself for a commitment in the highest endowed US professional league NBA.

Instead, Conklin didn't start his professional career in New Zealand until almost a year later , when he signed a contract with the Southland Sharks from Invercargill on the southern tip of the South Island in March 2013 . In the Sharks, who play in New Zealand's top national league, Conklin almost achieved a double-double on average when he led the team with a good 22 points and nine rebounds together with Final Four -MVP Leon Henry to the first championship. He then moved to Australia , where he played in Townsville for the Crocodiles in the supranational National Basketball League of Australasia , which play a season comparable to the competition calendar of the northern hemisphere . Conklin already achieved his career top in the NBL in November 2013 with 33 points, which he would later only achieve once, and led his team with 16 points in points per game, which nevertheless came last after only ten wins in 28 games regular season and missed the play-offs. Conklin was nevertheless chosen as one of the ten best players of the season in the NBL All-Second Team . Back at the Southland Sharks, Conklin was able to confirm his individual values ​​from the previous season with a good 20 points and 9.7 rebounds per game, but the defending champion lost the semi-finals in the Final Four against the Hawke's Bay Hawks as fourth in the main round. Then he returned again to the Crocodiles on the Australian east coast. Although the Crocodiles were only able to improve slightly with eleven wins in sixth and third from last place compared to the previous season, Conklin was named Most Valuable Player of the NBL after almost 19 points and six rebounds per game , after having previously been named "player of the week “( German  player of the week ).

After the early end of the season in Australia, Conklin did not move back to New Zealand in spring 2015, but moved to the Caribbean in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional in Puerto Rico , where he had 32 missions in the regular season for the Cangrejeros from Santurce . In July 2015 he returned to the Crocodiles in Australia, but the former MVP was criticized after he first broke the jaw of an opponent with his elbow in November and was finally suspended for at least one game after another elbow strike. At the end of the month after 13 season appearances, Conklin was released from his contract by the Crocodiles, who broke up at the end of the season for financial reasons. Conklin returned to Puerto Rico in spring 2016, where he completed the entire season in the BSN for the Piratas from Quebradillas . In March 2016, Conklin was suspended again after an elbow blow that sent Renaldo Balkman to the ground. As the main round eight, however, the Piratas were eliminated in the play-off quarter-finals after only one win in five games against the Vaqueros from Bayamón . After the end of the season in Puerto Rico, Conklin stayed in the Caribbean and played in the Dominican Republic for the Leones from the capital Santo Domingo . Together with the former NBA professional Donté Greene , among others , Conklin was able to dethrone the defending champion Metros de Santiago in their hall in the decisive seventh final game .

One week after winning the title in the Dominican Republic, Conklin signed a contract in Europe for the first time. He moved to France, where the LNB Pro A 2016/17 championship season had already started, to JSF in Nanterre in the Hauts-de-Seine department , which was now called Nanterre 92 . Together with the German Heiko Schaffartzik and his compatriots Chris Warren , Spencer Butterfield and Mykal Reily as teammates at Nanterre, Conklin won the French Cup competition Coupe de France 2017 and a few days later in the final against national rival Élan Chalon also the international FIBA Europe Cup 2016/17 . The team missed a possible triple shortly afterwards, when they were third in the French league in the play-offs for the championship in the quarter-finals against local rivals Paris-Levallois Basket . The following season Conklin moved to league rivals Cercle Saint-Pierre from Limoges , for whom his former teammate Schaffartzik had previously been active. The eleven-time veteran had missed the play-offs for the championship in the past season in tenth place in the table, but starts with a wild card in the European club competition EuroCup 2017/18 .

Namesake

Conklin has a namesake nine years older, ten centimeters taller and also playing basketball , who after studying at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln also as a professional and played there for a short time in the basketball Bundesliga 2006/07 for the TBB Trier in Germany . Before the end of 2006, his Ohio- born namesake broke off his professional career as a basketball player and became director of a local Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) facility near where he was studying in Omaha .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RB Fallstrom ( AP ): Saint Louis falls to VCU, 71-65. Fox Sports Networks , April 1, 2010, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Associated Press : Draymond Green, Michigan St. oust Saint Louis to move on. ESPN , March 19, 2012, accessed August 30, 2017 (match report with statistics).
  3. ^ Brian Conklin emotional after loss: 3/18/12. YouTube , March 18, 2012, accessed August 30, 2017 (English, upload from WXYZ-TV Detroit, affiliate of ABC , post-game press conference).
  4. ↑ Sam Worthington: Hungry Sharks claim unlikely NBL title. Fairfax Media : stuff.co.nz, July 15, 2013, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  5. ^ R5 Report: Conklin, Crocs power past New Zealand. NBL Australasia , November 8, 2013, archived from the original on November 9, 2013 ; accessed on August 30, 2017 (English).
  6. ^ R13 Report: Cairns overcome Conklin, Crocs. NBL Australasia , January 4, 2015, archived from the original on January 4, 2015 ; accessed on August 30, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ Rotnei Clarke takes out the 2013/14 MVP Award. NBL Australasia , April 2, 2014, archived from the original on April 4, 2014 ; accessed on August 30, 2017 (English).
  8. ^ NBL Awards: Brian Conklin wins MVP. NBL Australasia , February 28, 2015, archived from the original on March 4, 2015 ; accessed on August 30, 2017 (English).
  9. ^ R13 Player of the Week: Brian Conklin. NBL Australasia , January 6, 2015, archived from the original on January 8, 2015 ; accessed on August 30, 2017 (English).
  10. ^ Damien Martin cops elbow to the jaw. YouTube , November 4, 2015, accessed August 30, 2017 (English, uploaded by user Ashleigh Baker ).
  11. ^ Brian Conklin Elbow on Mitch Creek & Uncensored Halftime Interview. YouTube , November 15, 2015, accessed on August 30, 2017 (English, upload by user koberulz ; incl. Half-time interview ).
  12. ^ Roy Ward: Brian Conklin suspended for elbow on Mitch Creek, Nathan Jawai fined. Sydney Morning Herald , November 17, 2015, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Suspendido Brian Conklin por sobre agresión Balkman. Baloncesto Superior Nacional , March 18, 2016, accessed August 30, 2017 (Spanish, media info).
  14. ↑ LNB_2016 Basketball League DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / LNB Round 7 of Finals. Leones clinch the title. Latinbasket.com, September 22, 2016, accessed on August 30, 2017 (English, season summary with short report on the decisive final game).
  15. ↑ Odalis Sanchez: Leones de Santo Domingo campeones campeonato LNB 2016. El Nacional (Santo Domingo) , September 22, 2016, accessed on August 30, 2017 (Spanish).
  16. ↑ Basketball: Heiko Schaffartzik wins FIBA ​​Europe Cup with Nanterre. Sport1.de , April 25, 2017, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Nanterre 92 crowned 2017 FIBA ​​Europe Cup champions. FIBA Europe Cup , April 25, 2017, accessed on August 30, 2017 (English, media information).
  18. ↑ 6055 Brian CONKLIN. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on August 30, 2017 (player profile).
  19. ↑ Omaha FCA: About the Staff. Fellowship of Christian Athletes , accessed August 30, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Conklin, Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Eugene , Oregon, United States