Ryan Brooks

Ryan Brooks
Player information
birthday	12th April 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	New Orleans , Louisiana , USA
size	193 cm
position	Shooting Guard
college	Temple
Club information
society	JDA Dijon
league	Ligue Nationale de Basket
Clubs as active
2006–2010 Temple Owls ( NCAA ) 2010–2011 LTi Gießen 46ers 2011–2012 Namika Lahti 2012–2013 LTi Gießen 46ers 2013 Fraport Skyliners 2013–2015 Telekom Baskets Bonn 2015–2017 JDA Dijon 2017–2018 Walter Tigers Tübingen 000 0

Ryan Brooks (born April 12, 1988 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Brooks plays as a professional in Europe. After a season in the Finnish Korisliiga , he returned to the Gießen 46ers for the 2012/13 BBL season , where he started his professional career in 2010. After the Giessener filed for insolvency, he left the club before the end of the season and moved to the Hessian league competitor Fraport Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main .

Career

Brooks grew up in New Orleans before moving to Pennsylvania with his mother and graduating from Lower Merion High School. Their basketball team is known, among other things, from Kobe Bryant , who was " drafted " directly into the highest endowed US professional league NBA after the 1996 national championship . Brooks was also able to win a state championship with the team in 2006 and was then not selected in the NBA Draft , but at least he got offers for athletic scholarships, including one of the local Temple University in Philadelphia . With their college team Owls Brooks won three championship tournaments ( English Tournament Championships ) of the Atlantic 10 Conference from 2008 to 2010 and 2010 also the regular season. In the three participations in the national finals of the NCAA you were eliminated in the first round; 2010 as the fifth seeded team against the weaker Big Red of Cornell University from the Ivy League, which is not very successful in basketball .

After Brooks was allowed to audition in the NBA Summer League for the local NBA team Philadelphia 76ers , he finally got a professional contract in Germany with the founding member of the Basketball Bundesliga Gießen 46ers. These slipped into the table cellar after a good start to the season in the 2010/11 BBL season and could only save the league with a win lead. Then Brooks got a contract in the top Finnish league for Namika from Lahti . This team also found itself mostly at the bottom of the table, with Steven Wright being replaced by Malik Moore on the " Guard " positions , who had previously also played in the German basketball league as compatriots of Brooks.

For the 2012/13 BBL season , Brooks returned to Giessen, who had previously missed out on relegation and could only achieve it by purchasing a wild card . However, the club took the sporting and financial problems with it into the new season and therefore had to submit a preliminary application to open insolvency proceedings at the end of the year. The bottom of the table was therefore deducted four points, so that in the apparently hopeless sporting and economic situation, other players like Jasmin Perković left the club. At the end of January 2013, Brooks and his teammate LaQuan Prowell decided after a corresponding offer to leave the club and switched to Hessian local rivals Fraport Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main , who were also threatened with relegation . After successfully staying up with the Skyliners, Brooks did not receive a new contract in Frankfurt despite good performances. He then moved within the league to the Telekom Baskets Bonn . For the 2014/2015 season, Brooks extended his contract in Bonn.

For the 2015/2016 season, Brooks left Telekom Baskets and moved to JDA Dijon in France .

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Ryan Brooks - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Ryan Brooks Stats - Temple Owls - College season stats on statsheet.com
• Temple University Athletics - 2009-10 Men's Basketball Roster: 2 Ryan Brooks - player profile on Temple University's sports pages; As of 2009 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Brooks was adopted in New Orleans, his exact place of birth is uncertain: Jennifer Reardon: From toddler to Top 25. (No longer available online.) In: temple-news.com. Temple University , February 9, 2010, formerly original ; accessed on January 30, 2013 (English, article in the online version of the student magazine).  ( 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.    
2. ^ Ryan Brooks Signs Professional Contract with German Club. Temple University , August 3, 2010, accessed January 30, 2013 . 
3. ↑ BBL deducts four points from Giessen. Nordwest-Zeitung , December 28, 2012, accessed January 30, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Frankfurt brings Ryan Brooks and LaQuan Prowell from Giessen / contract with Ted Scott is terminated. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , January 29, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 30, 2013 (Media Info Fraport Skyliners).  ( 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.