Kevin Bright (basketball player)

Kevin Bright
Player information
Full name	Kevin Daniel Bright
birthday	September 7, 1992
place of birth	Mannheim, Germany
size	196 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college	Vanderbilt
Club information
society	TSG Söflingen
Clubs as active
2006–2012 Team Urspring / erdgas Ehingen 2012–2013 Vanderbilt Commodores ( NCAA ) 2013–2015 Skyliners Frankfurt 2015–2016 Nürnberger BC since 2017 TSG Söflingen 0

Kevin Daniel Bright (born September 7, 1992 in Mannheim ) is a German basketball player . After numerous national successes with the youth teams of the Urspring School , the German junior selection player Bright went to study at Vanderbilt University in the United States in 2012 . He returned after just one year and became a professional in 2013 with the first division club Skyliners Frankfurt . The former junior national player was a member of the German A2 national team.

Career

Bright learned to play basketball in his hometown Mannheim and went to boarding school at the Urspring School in Schelklingen in 2006 . Here he was, among other things, Akeem Vargas's team-mate and defended the previous year's championship title in the youth basketball league (NBBL) with the junior team in 2008 . Bright was named “ Rookie of the Year” by the NBBL. With the exception of the following year, 2009, Bright was able to win the NBBL title three times with Team Ursprung. At the renowned Albert Schweitzer tournament in 2010 in his hometown, the German U18 team reached the final, although Bright was ill and did not play the last games.

In addition to the NBBL junior team, Bright played at the same time for the Steeples , the senior team in the third-highest division ProB . In the ProB 2010/11 , as the champions of the league, he was promoted to the second highest league, ProA , in which Bright was awarded as Youngster of the Month in the opening month of October 2011 in the ProA 2011/12 . After securing relegation as a climber in eleventh place in the final table, the junior international, who had taken a good fifth place with the German selection at the U20 European Championship, like numerous other teammates from the Urspring School, went to the United States to study, where it a place at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville ( Tennessee got). At Vanderbilt, Bright played on the college team Commodores in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) of the NCAA . In his first year as a freshman , in which the Commodores were eliminated from the SEC championship tournament as defending champions in the semifinals, Bright was already an important part of the team that had lost their key players after winning the SEC title last year and qualified for a nationwide postseason Missed the NCAA tournament.

Also for family reasons, Bright dropped out of his studies in the States after a year and signed a contract with the first division club Skyliners Frankfurt in 2013 . At the Skyliners Bright was given a double license and made eight appearances for the reserve team of the Skyliners in the ProB 2013/14 . In fact, however, outweighed the 22 appearances in the first division team, in which Danilo Barthel, who was one year older, was another native of the Palatinate , under coach returnees Gordon Herbert . Bright had a similarly good debut in the top German division as his former Ehingen team-mate Akeem Vargas at runner-up Alba Berlin , who, however, had already sniffed first division air with the Tigers Tübingen between 2010 and 2012 with a double license . After the end of the season Bright missed the pre-season after a long injury and suffered a stress fracture shortly before the start of the season, so that he was canceled for the first half of the 2014/15 basketball Bundesliga . Bright played his first game after injury in the ProB 2014/15 when the reserve team lost at the beginning of January 2015 at the Weißenhorn Youngstars , the “ farm team ” from ratiopharm Ulm .

Bright left the Skyliners during the 2015 summer break after failing to live up to expectations due to injuries in the 2014/2015 season. In the 2015/16 season he played for the second division club Nürnberger BC . In 2016/17 he was not active, for the 2017/18 season he went to TSG Söflingen (second regional league).

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Kevin Bright - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Kevin Bright - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Kevin Bright Bio - profile on the sports website of the Vanderbilt University ( English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A2-Men> Kader 2014. German Basketball Federation , accessed on January 11, 2015 (overview page). 
2. ↑ Sven Labenz: "The NBBL was a springboard for my career". (No longer available online.) Junior Basketball League , 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 11, 2015 (media information with interview).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Kevin Bright: Player of the Month October Young League selects the top player from Ehingen. Südwest Presse , November 8, 2011, accessed January 11, 2015 . 
4. ↑ U20 men: Top five in Europe! Deutscher Basketball Bund , July 22, 2012, accessed on January 11, 2015 (media information and match report). 
5. ↑ German top talent Kevin Bright moves to the Main metropolis. Basketball Bundesliga , July 30, 2013, accessed on January 11, 2015 (Medien-Info Fraport Skyliners). 
6. ↑ Timur Tinç: Skyliners bring Finnish national players. Frankfurter Rundschau , September 3, 2014, accessed on November 1, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Herbert has to do without the playmaker. Frankfurter Neue Presse , September 23, 2014, accessed on January 11, 2015 . 
8. ↑ https://de-de.facebook.com/BasketballSoeflingen/posts/1524649107599559