Kevin Langford

Kevin Charles Langford ( born December 21, 1985 in Fort Worth, Texas ) is an American professional basketball player. After completing his studies in his home country Langford played professionally in Europe. His first professional stop was the German first division Paderborn Baskets in the National Basketball League 2009/10. About stations in Hungary and Spain came Langford to Greece, where he plays for Panionios Athens in international club competitions since the 2013/14 season. His two- year older brother Keith is much better known as a basketball player; he played in the NBA and won in Europe, a number of international and national club title.

Career

Langford went to study from Texas to the University of California, Berkeley, where he played in the 2004/05 season for the high school team Golden Bears in the Pacific -10 Conference of the NCAA. In 2005, he again left the West Coast and continued his studies at Texas Christian University in his hometown away. After the usual, the NCAA regulations contemporary one-year break from competition after the change of university Langford played from 2006 to 2009, three years for the Horned Frogs, who played back in the Mountain West Conference (MWC ) of the NCAA. The Horned Frogs, who repeatedly changed the Conference in the NCAA after the end of the Southwest Conference in 1996, played with little success in the MWC and were able to recommend "Post Season " tournament for the NCAA no. Although Langford individually showed consistently good, but not outstanding performance and advanced so unlike his brother, Keith, not to the attention of the highest endowed professional league NBA.

2009, Langford wrote his first professional contract with the German first division from Paderborn. This increased after first reaching the Championship play-offs last year in the National Basketball League 2009/10 Table starting. In the season 2010/11 Langford then played in the first Hungarian League for the novice Factum Sport Debrecen. However, the team was second to last place in the table barely avoid relegation. For the season 2011/12 Langford got a contract in the Spanish second division LEB Oro at Grupo Iruña from Navarra. In the regular season Navarra reached a third place and creeping shouldered in the play- offs for promotion to the ACB league in the semifinal series to eventual winners Menorca Bàsquet. In the 2012/13 season Langford then starred in the first Greek League A1 Ethniki for Colossus of Rhodes, but after a third place last year finished the season in tenth place and missed the play-offs for the championship. For the 2013/14 season Langford got a contract with Premier League rivals Panionios from the capital Athens, which continue to play a third place in the preseason in the second most important European club competition Eurocup 2013/14.