Darnell Hinson

Darnell Hinson ( born May 28, 1980 in Muskogee, Oklahoma) is an American professional basketball player with Puerto Rican passport. After completing his studies in his home country Hinson first played professionally in Europe and Australia, before he used the summer break to play in his second home, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. In Europe, he was active in the past in the German 2nd Bundesliga basketball, the Netherlands, France and Poland, and since the end of 2012 in the Austrian Bundesliga for the Gunners from Oberwart.

Career

Hinson graduated from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, the headquarters of the Cherokee Nation. The Indian embossed university also has a campus in Hinson's home town. The basketball team Redmen, which was renamed the River Hawks since 2006, played at Hinson's time in the Lone Star Conference, the NCAA Division II in 2002 you won the championship this Conference and in 2003 you won the national finals in the final after a win against the Panthers of Kentucky Wesleyan College, who had reached the final in a row for the sixth time. The Panthers in the finals was denied later due to use of unauthorized players again. Hinson was named " Most Valuable Player " of the final tournament.

2004 Hinson began a professional career and signed a contract with the former first division team from USC Freiburg im Breisgau in the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga Group South and reached with the club a midfield position in the season 2004/05. He then played two seasons in the Netherlands in February for Landstede from Zwolle and then for Hanzevast Capitals of Groningen. In both seasons, he was invited to the All-Star Game in the league.

For the season 2007/ 08 Hinson went to Australia in the National Basketball League, where he played for the Razorbacks in Sydney. In the break, and the NBL, he then played in Puerto Rico for the Vaqueros of Bayamón, before he returned to Australia and took up for the Wildcats from Perth, but were eliminated in the play-off quarter-finals in mid-February. For the rest of the European game time, Hinson joined the former European champions Élite CSP Limoges in the French second division LNB Pro B. In the play-offs of the second division they beat Paris - Levallois Basket, who had the rise as a major first round already safe, but lost the final to the second promotion place against Union Poitiers Basket 86

In summer 2010, Hinson played again in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN ) to Puerto Rico this time for the Gallitos of Isabela. Then he came back to Europe and played in the Polish PLK for Polonia from the capital, Warsaw. Polonia reached only tenth place in the championship in 2011 and had to retire for economic reasons, according to the season from the top flight. Hinson, meanwhile, gave a guest appearance in the Philippines and played again for the Gallitos of Isabela in the summer of 2011. Subsequently, he returned to Poland and joined the former Cup Third Energa Czarni from Slupsk to. This placement had you stop even after the main round, but then fell in the championship round back to excrete in the play- offs in the quarter-finals. The following season, 2012/13 to Hinson closed the year the Oberwart Gunners in the Austrian basketball league.