Michael J. Jenkins

Michael Jenkins
Player information
Full name	Michael Jerome Jenkins
birthday	6th September 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Kinston , North Carolina , United States
size	191 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Point Guard
college	Winthrop
Club information
society	Reyer Venezia
league	Lega Basket Serie A
Jersey number	11
Clubs as active
2004–2008 Winthrop Eagles ( NCAA ) 2008–2009 Albany Patroons ( CBA ) 2009 KK Budućnost Podgorica 2009–2010 WALTER Tigers Tübingen 2010–2011 Belgacom Liège 2011–2012 Optima Gent 2012–2013 Centrale del Latte Brescia 2013–2014 Pallacanestro Cantù 2014 Oklahoma City Blue 2015 İstanbul BŞB 2015–2016 Türk Telekom 2016–2017 Aris Saloniki Since 2017 Reyer Venezia 00000 00000 00000 0

Michael Jerome Jenkins (born September 6, 1986 in Kinston , North Carolina ) is an American basketball player . After completing his studies, Jenkins first played as a professional in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) before moving to Europe, where he played in the 2009/10 basketball league for the German first division club WALTER Tigers Tübingen. After stints in Belgium and Italy , Jenkins was under contract in the NBA Summer League 2014 for the Brooklyn Nets and in the preseason with the Oklahoma City Thunder , before moving to Turkey at the beginning of 2015 after appearances in the NBA Development League for the Oklahoma City Blue moved to İstanbul BŞB.

Career

Jenkins went to study at Winthrop University in Rock Hill (South Carolina) on the border with his native North Carolina in 2004 , where he played for the college team Eagles in the Big South Conference of the NCAA . Together with his teammate Torrell Martin , who later also played in the German Bundesliga, the Eagles dominated the less prestigious conference and won the Big South championship tournament from 2004 to 2008. In the national NCAA finals , teams from the Big South are traditionally big underdogs and placed in the lower half of the seeding list, but in 2007 they defeated the Fighting Irish of the University of Notre Dame in the first round . This was the first success of a team from the Big South Conference in the finals tournament ever, in the following round they lost to the Ducks of the University of Oregon . Without Torrell Martin, who had finished his college career and turned professional, you lost again in 2008 significantly in the first round.

After graduating, Jenkins first became a professional in the CBA for the Patroons from Albany (New York) . The previously longest-serving professional league in the USA, which had already been suspended from the game in the 2000/01 season, collapsed at the end of the season and Jenkins moved to Europe at the end of the season to the Montenegrin series champion KK Budućnost from the capital Podgorica , who successfully defended his national double could. For the following season 2009/10 Jenkins moved to Germany in the basketball Bundesliga , in which he was signed by the WALTER Tigers from Tübingen . At the same time, his long-time team-mate from College Torrell Martin had also moved to Germany to join league rivals Eisbären Bremerhaven . While the polar bears returned to the play-offs among the top eight teams, the WALTER Tigers again only managed to stay up. For the 2010/11 season, Jenkins moved to the Belgian Ethias League , where he also played in a European club competition with the runner-up Belgacom Basket from Liège in the EuroChallenge 2010/11 . There, however, the team was eliminated in the preliminary round because of the poorer direct comparison . In the national championship they missed the play-offs and reached only the penultimate place in the league comprising nine teams. For the following season 2011/12 Jenkins was committed by league rivals Optima Dragons from Ghent , who had finished the previous season behind Liège in last place in the table. Together with his compatriots Michael Haynes and Richard Chaney , who had also played for the German first division Tübingen a season before Jenkins, the Dragons under coach Yves Defraigne were able to improve to seventh and third from last place. Then the Gent Dragons left the closed professional league and returned to the league system of the Belgian association.

For the 2012/13 season Jenkins moved to the second Italian league Legadue to Leonessa Centrale del Latto from Brescia . The team finished the main round in fourth and moved into the final series of the play-offs for promotion to the top division, where they defeated the main round second and only promoted Pistoia Basket in the decisive fifth game. In the following season 2013/14 Jenkins still played in the Lega Basket Serie A , since he moved to the first division from Cantù .

Web links

Commons : Michael Jenkins  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• easyCredit BBL - Michael Jenkins - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Michael Jenkins: WALTER Tigers Tübingen - player profile on the WALTER Tigers website (as of 2009)
• Michael Jenkins Stats - Winthrop Eagles - statistics from college seasons at statsheet.com ( English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Associated Press : Winthrop victory notches first tourney win for Big South - Did You Know? ESPN , accessed July 12, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Tobias Fischer: Michael Jenkins is coming to the WALTER Tigers! Tigers Tübingen , June 23, 2009, accessed on July 12, 2013 (media info). 
3. ↑ Tobias Fischer: Michael Jenkins is moving to Belgacom Liege Basket in Belgium. Tigers Tübingen , July 23, 2010, accessed on July 12, 2013 (media info). 
4. ↑ Legadue Basket: Michael Jenkins. Legadue , accessed on July 12, 2013 (Italian, player profile). 
5. ↑ CANTU signs guard Jenkins. (No longer available online.) ULEB , July 12, 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on July 12, 2013 .  ( 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.