Coleman Collins

Coleman Collins ( born July 22, 1986 in Princeton, New Jersey ) is an American professional basketball player. After his studies in his home country Burns played as a professional, especially in Europe, including three seasons in the German Basketball Bundesliga for the first division Württemberg, EnBW Ludwigsburg and ratiopharm Ulm. In 2012 he won with HKK Široki double in Bosnian league and cup competition.

Career

Collins went to school in Georgia and 2003 to study at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he played for the college team Hokies in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC ), the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA). In the last year of his collegiate career in 2007, the Hokies were the first to qualify for the NCAA national finals after eleven years of abstinence. After a victory over the Fighting Illini of the University of Illinois, they lost in the second round against the Salukis of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Coleman scored in his four-year NCAA career than 1,000 points and 500 rebounds in total at an average of 10.5 points and 5.6 rebounds in 109 games.

2007 Collins then began a career as a professional basketball league in the 2007/ 08 for the German first division from Ludwigsburg. The team in the previous year round main and second play-off semi-finalists, but to participate in the play-offs for the championship clearly failed on the 13th place in the table. In the German cup competition they reached the final, which, however, went against the Artland Dragons lost the Top Four Competition. Then, Collins returned to his home country and played in the NBA Development League (D -League ) for the Mad Ants from Fort Wayne. The Mad Ants, however, opened up for Collins no opportunity to recommend for a contract in the most highly endowed professional league NBA, where he scored similar statistics as in the NCAA. For the following season, he returned to Germany and played for ratiopharm Ulm. In the National Basketball League in 2009/10 he replaced the top rebounder Jeff Gibbs, who had migrated to league rivals polar bears Bremerhaven, and similar in Ludwigsburg missed the Ulmer after a successful pre-season, as they for the first time after the re-emergence for the play- offs had qualified in 13th place in the table to participate in the final round of the championship. Also in the National Basketball League 2010/11 could not improve and ended up in 14th place in the final table.

For the season 2011/12 Collins then got a contract with the club from Široki Brijeg in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The team was able to double its earnings from the previous year to successfully defend and won for Croat dominated club from the Bosnian Herzegovina fourth championship in a row. In the ABA league but you missed on the fifth participation in the " Final Four " tournament. In the 2012/13 season Collins then played in the French LNB Pro A for Chorale Roanne Basket from. The team retired as a fifth in the main round table in the first play-off round for the championship against defending Élan from Chalon. For the 2013/14 season, Collins signed a contract with the Ukrainian runner- BK Asowmasch from Mariupol in the Basketball Super League Ukraine.