Tony Skinn
Anthony Oludewa Jeffrey Skinn ( born February 8, 1983 in Lagos ) is an American professional basketball player with Nigerian ancestors. After studying in the United States, he played professionally in several European countries, including in the BBL season 2010/11 at the New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig of the German Basketball Bundesliga. Since the 2012/13 season he plays at BK Budiwelnik from Kiev. Internationally, he takes for Nigeria and qualified for the national team for the 2012 Olympics in London.
College
During his studies played Skinn at least one year from 2001 to 2002 at Blinn College in Brenham, Texas for the high school team Buccaneers in the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association. He then attended the Hagerstown Community College in Hagerstown (Maryland) and after a year in 2003 to the George Mason University and played for the Patriots in the NCAA Division I. In his senior year in 2006 he reached with Junior Folarin Campbell, who is also Nigerian ancestors and has later starred in the German BBL, the Final Four tournament of the NCAA Men 's Division I Basketball Championship. In his last season he reached 12.6 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game on average.
Professional career
In his first season as a professional Skinn played first at the traditional Croatian basketball club from Split, but he left again in December 2006 after three months. He went on then still in the French LNB Pro A, after he had been sorted out before the season starts from the later French masters Chorale Roanne Basket. First he played from January 2007 Basket Auvergne in Clermont -Ferrand in the Massif Central, which descended cut off after the 2007/ 08 season, and in the season 2008 /09 on the North Sea coast at BCM Gravelines Dunkerque. In July 2007 he was in the NBA Summer League in Orlando Magic jersey of active without getting a contract for the NBA. In the 2009/10 season he played in the second Italian league Legadue Tuscan Pistoia.
In the 2010/11 season in the Skinn played basketball league for the New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig, with whom he reached the German Cup final. In the play-offs for the German championship, however, the five placed after the regular season Braunschweiger dropped out in the first round after five games against the Artland Dragons. For the season 2011/12, signed a contract Skinn in the Israeli Ligat ha Al Ironi Ashkelon in.
In the Olympic qualifying tournament in 2012 Skinn succeeded with the Nigerian national team with a victory in the deciding game of the Dominican Republic to reach the final launch site for the Olympic basketball tournament in London. There you dropped out in the first group stage after only a win over the African rivals Tunisia. In the season 2012/13 Skinn had indeed signed a contract with the Ukrainian club BK Budiwelnyk Kiev, but after a knee injury at the Olympic Games themselves Skinn had to undergo surgery in London and fell out for several months, so his contract was invalid.