Suleiman Braimoh

Suleiman Braimoh
Player information
Full name	Suleiman Okhaifoede Braimoh, Jr.
birthday	October 19, 1989
place of birth	Benin City, Nigeria
size	203 cm
position	Power forward
college	Rice University
Club information
society	Casting 46ers
league	Basketball Bundesliga
Jersey number	17th
Clubs as active
2007–2011 Rice Owls ( NCAA ) 2011–2012 Rio Grande Valley Vipers 2012 al-Gharafa SC 2013 al-Rayyan SC 2013–2014 Niigata Albirex ( bjl ) 2014 Shinshu Brave Warriors (bjl) 2014 Taranaki Mountainairs 2014–2015 Huracanes de Tampico ( LNBP ) 2015 Hawke's Bay Hawks Since 2015 Gießen 46ers 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 0

Suleiman Okhaifoede Braimoh (born October 19, 1989 in Benin City , Edo ) is a Nigerian - American basketball player . After studying in the United States, Braimoh played professionally on all continents apart from his African homeland . In the 2015/16 Basketball Bundesliga , Braimoh played for the first time in Europe for the German first division club Gießen 46ers and was nominated for the BBL All-Star Game in this league.

Career

Braimoh came to the United States with his parents in 2001 and was a student at the United Nations International School in New York City . Braimoh brought his enthusiasm for football with him from his home country , but from 2004 he also began playing basketball on the school team. Braimoh completed his education at Lawrenceville Prep School , where Joakim Noah had already attended school before his studies, and received an athletic scholarship from Rice University in Houston in 2007 , for whose college team Owls he played in the Conference USA of the NCAA . The last major successes of the Texan team, however, dated from 1970 and in Braimoh's student days one could not add more. So he also failed to recommend himself to the NCAA for a contract in the highest endowed professional league NBA and was not selected in the 2011 NBA draft after he did not exceed 4.4 points and a good two rebounds in just under eleven in his senior year Minutes of playing time per game.

Despite the NCAA performance record, which is hardly useful for a professional career, Braimoh was able to recommend himself through auditions for a squad place with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers from Hidalgo on the Texan - Mexican border. Braimoh played with the " farm team " of the NBA club Houston Rockets in the " Minor League " NBA Development League (D-League). After 15 missions, Braimoh left the Vipers early in February 2012 and played in Qatar for al-Gharafa SC. After he had already agreed on a contract with the Mountainairs from Taranaki in New Zealand for the following season in 2013, he tried again in the D-League with the Reno Bighorns in autumn 2012 , but they did not take him into the season squad. After initially not getting a visa in New Zealand, Braimoh played again in Qatar for al-Rayyan at the beginning of 2013. The 2013/14 season began Braimoh in the Japanese bj league with the Albirex from Niigata , which he left in early February 2014 and moved "upstream" to the league competitor Brave Warriors from Shinshu . For the Brave Warriors, however, he completed only three games before he moved to New Zealand in the same month for the Mountainairs in New Plymouth on the North Island . In the New Zealand league Braimoh soon belonged to the decisive players and was several times as Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) of the week and after a double-double averaging nearly 25 points and twelve rebounds per game in addition to the later Bundesliga player Jamal Boykin under the five best players of the season. For the 2014/15 season Braimoh returned to North America and played on the Gulf of Mexico in the Mexican LNBP for the Huracanes from Tampico . Individually he was invited to the All-Star Game of the LNBP, but with his team he was eliminated as sixth in the main round in the first play-off round. After the end of the season, the game of the Huracanes was stopped after six seasons and Braimoh went back to New Zealand in March 2015, where he joined the runner-up Hawks from the Hawke's Bay region on the North Island. Although Braimoh was able to achieve another award as Player of the Week, the Hawks only won a third of their season games and finished penultimate in the table ahead of the winless Mountainairs.

For the 2015/16 season Braimoh moved to Europe for the first time and plays in Germany for the first division returnees and old masters 46ers from Gießen . Along with his compatriot Ekene Ibekwe, he was one of the protagonists of the good start to the season and led the statistics of the league-wide top scorers after the first quarter of the season. For the league's “mountain festival”, the BBL All-Star Game after the first half of the season, Braimoh was nominated for his ailing colleague Duško Savanović because of these achievements .

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Suleiman Braimoh - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Suleiman Braimoh - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• Suleiman Braimoh Bio - Profile on the sports websites of Rice University (English, as of 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Suleiman Braimoh nominated for Beko BBL ALLSTAR Day. Giessen 46ers , January 8, 2016, accessed on January 9, 2016 (media info). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Murray Hills: Mountain Airs get 'big man'. Stuff.co.nz : Taranaki Daily News, October 6, 2012, accessed January 9, 2015 . 
3. ^ Suleiman Braimoh Stats / College Basketball. Sports Reference LLC., Accessed January 9, 2016 (NCAA individual statistics). 
4. ^ Bighorn's Select Eight Players in NBA D-League Draft. OurSportsCentral.com, November 2, 2012, accessed January 9, 2016 (media info Reno Bighorns). 
5. ↑ Sharyn Smart: An Interview With Taranaki Standout Suleiman Braimoh. (No longer available online.) NZHoops.co.nz, May 28, 2014, archived from the original on May 29, 2014 ; accessed on January 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Hawks v Saints Final. Basketball New Zealand , July 4, 2014, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on January 9, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Athletic "Big Man" Suleiman Braimoh strengthens GIESSEN 46ers. Giessen 46ers , July 16, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2016 (Medien-Info 46ers).