Bradley Buckman

Bradley Bond Buckman ( born March 15, 1981 in Austin, Texas ) is an American professional basketball player. After completing his studies in his hometown Buckman first played in the NBA Development League (D -League ) for the Austin Toros, before continuing his career in Europe in 2008. In addition to stations in Romania, Cyprus, Israel and Spain, he played mainly in the Turkish league Türkiye Basketbol Ligi (TBL ). For short-term contracts Buckman was also active twice in the German Basketball Bundesliga for the Frankfurt Skyliners and Artland Dragons.

Career

Buckman was last in a suburb of his native town to school, where he was invited to his graduation from high school in choosing the best school basketball players in the country to " McDonald 's All- American Game." Then he began to study at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was active for the high school team Longhorns in the Big 12 Conference of the NCAA. Here Buckman was able to achieve solid personal statistics, without leaving a recommend for a contract as a professional. In the Big 12 Conference, the Longhorns won in Buckman's College last year, the regular season in 2006, but lost as in 2004, the final game in the championship tournament. For the national NCAA finals the Longhorns were consistently qualified and reached 2003 in Buckman's first season the Final Four tournament, where they lost to the eventual champion Orangemen of Syracuse University with the "Most Outstanding Player" Carmelo Anthony in the semifinals. After she dropped out a year later in the knockout round of "Sweet Sixteen", would retire in 2005 in the first round. Following the good results in the Big 12 was reached again in 2006 a higher classification for the team, who was among other things the future NBA and Bundesliga player PJ Tucker finals and reached the regional finals " Elite Eight ", which, however, lost to the Tigers of Louisiana State University went.

After finishing his studies, Buckman received an invitation to play in the NBA Summer League for the Dallas Mavericks. Here, however, he could not recommend for a contract in the most highly endowed professional league NBA, but the local professional club Austin Toros in the D -League took him for the season 2006/ 07 under contract. After the tragic death of head coach Dennis Johnson, who died in February 2007 after training of a heart attack, the crew could not place among the best teams in the league. Subsequently, the Toros were taken over by the San Antonio Spurs and Buckman had at the beginning of the season 2007 /08 a new contract. So he finally took in January 2008 to a contract offer from Europe and played in the Romanian Divizia A for the university sports club from Cluj- Napoca, which, however, was eliminated at the end of the season in the play- offs for the championship in the first round.

For the following season, 2008/ 09 Buckman remained in Europe, played for the Cypriot champions Keravnos Strovolou in the capital Nicosia. After leaving in the Euro Challenge 2008 /09 Buckman joined in January 2009 after Israel Ligat ha Al in the Hapoel Gilboa Altshuler from. In the semifinals of the Final Four tournament Gilboa Galil missed after losing only two points difference from series champion Maccabi Tel Aviv barely a surprise that was to them a year later succeed. However Buckman himself played the season 2009/ 10 in Turkey for the basketball team from Kepez among others, along with the two-time league MVP Jovo Stanojević. However, both could not prevent the team was relegated in 30 games as a table next to last after only ten wins this season.

The season 2010/11 started Buckman with a temporary four-week short-term contract in the Basketball Bundesliga for the German Bank Skyliners Frankfurt am Main, as he was obliged shortly before the start of the season for an injured colleague. However, after expiry of the contract period and the recovery of players, the Frankfurt end of October gave up a further commitment and Buckman returned in January 2011 in the Turkish league, where he with Kepez ' local rivals from Antalya on the eighth degree course still a place in the Championship Play-offs reached. Here are different but the same in the first round against defending champion Fenerbahçe Ülker. For the season 2011/12 Buckman remained in Turkey and played in Bursa Tofaş SK, which also reached the eighth grade and were eliminated in the first play-off round against Galatasaray Medical Park. Buckman himself was one of the most effective players in the TBL this season.

For the 2012/13 season Buckman initially got a contract in the Spanish ACB League at Cajasol from Seville. After just five appearances he left the club in December 2012 again and got instead, in January 2013 a new contract in the German Bundesliga. With the Dragons from the Samtgemeinde Artland he reached the final table in sixth the Championship play-offs, where they lost in the first round but flat against the previous runner- ratiopharm Ulm. For the 2013/14 season he returned to Turkey and joined Beşiktaş JK in Istanbul.