Sylvester Kincheon

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Sylvester Theodore Kincheon (born October 2, 1964 ) is a retired American basketball player . The 2.10 meter tall indoor player played for several clubs in the basketball league . He scored a total of 3315 points in Germany's top division.

career

Kincheon played basketball at Travis High School in his hometown of Austin, Texas before continuing his career at university level. He first enrolled at the University of Mississippi  and scored 4.6 points and 3.4 rebounds per game for the local basketball team in the 1983/84 season. Further stations were the Seminole Junior College and Oklahoma State University . For "OSU" Kincheon came in its final season 1987/88 on averages of 8.9 points and 4.9 rebounds.

He moved to Germany and played in the 1988/89 season for TSV Hagen 1860 in the basketball league , for the 1990/91 season he moved to city rival Brandt Hagen . In the 1991/92 season he played for MTV 1846 Gießen  in the Bundesliga. In 1992/93 he was under contract with the Finnish club UU-Korihait , and in 1993 he returned to Germany when he switched to TTL Bamberg . Thanks to his powerful style of play, Kincheon also became a top performer in Bamberg and signed a contract extension for two years after the end of the 1993/94 season.

After its working paper in Bamberg expired in 1996, Kincheon moved to Hungary to Debreceni Vadkakasok Debrecen. At the end of his basketball career he played in the 1997/98 season for the BSG Ludwigsburg in the 2nd basketball league .

Kincheon joined the US Army after his career as a professional basketball player and served as a soldier, including a foreign assignment in Afghanistan .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The best first division scorers since '75 . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 54 .
  2. ↑ http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/okst/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/OSU_MBB_roster_1986-87.pdf
  3. ↑ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/04/14/Sylvester-Kincheon-a-6-foot-10-center-from-Austin-today-signed/2494419144400/
  4. ↑ http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/ole/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/2016-17/misc_non_event/History.pdf
  5. ↑ http://newsok.com/seminole-juco-pair-to-honor-pledges-to-play-for-pokes/article/2141942
  6. ↑ https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/sylvester-kincheon-1.html
  7. ↑ Basketball archive . In: basketball archive . ( wixsite.com [accessed January 8, 2017]).
  8. ↑ http://www.giessen46ers.de/mtv-liefert-alba-grossen-kampf/
  9. ↑ http://www.korihait.fi/seura/tilastotietoa/
  10. ↑ http://www.wbeyersdorf.de/archiv/saison/saison94.htm
  11. ↑ http://www.fibaeurope.com/compID_MsfTeemRHYovSUdkYV76x0.season_1997.roundID_2552.teamID_3090.playerID_6018.html
  12. ↑ https://www.dvidshub.net/video/277740/sgt-sylvester-kincheon#.UdwGaXfCfc8
personal data
SURNAME Kincheon, New Years Eve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kincheon, Sylvester Theodore (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd October 1964