Brandon Bowman
Brandon Kyle Bowman ( * October 15, 1984 in Beverly Hills, California) is an American professional basketball player who was with the Telekom Baskets Bonn from German Vice Champion and Vice Cup Winners' Cup in 2009. Since the beginning of 2013 Bowman plays in the Israeli Ligat ha Al.
Born in Los Angeles County in the U.S. West Coast and raised Bowman moved in 2002 to study at Georgetown University in Washington, DC to the East Coast. For the high school team Hoyas he played in the Big East Conference of NCAA Division I. In his senior year in 2006 they reached the knockout stages of "Sweet Sixteen" in the national finals of the NCAA. Bowman himself had by strong personal statistics as a " sophomore " and " Junior" in his senior year as a "senior" declining quotas and play. Subsequently, he was not selected in the NBA Draft of the highest endowed U.S. professional league and could not even in so-called training camps recommend for a contract in the NBA.
After the end of his college season Bowman got 2006 commitment to the Jam from Bakersfield in his Californian home, which had been newly included in the NBA Development League. Despite its convincing performance, especially in the second season he succeeded the former youth league not the jump to the NBA, so he still during this season in early 2008 joined the Italian second division Ignis from Novara. He, however, could not prevent the table last preseason, which held only by adopting a different license class, again Table was initially stopped and now its playing operations.
After the season Bowman returned in the summer of 2008 back to the States to draw attention to themselves again in the NBA Summer League. Although this was not enough for the NBA, but the German vice-champion Telekom Baskets Bonn took him for the 2008/ 09 season under contract. In the Bonners he was selected as the best points scorer and best rebounder of his team as an All -Star and participated in the BBL All-Star Game in 2009. With his team he reached the Cup final, which was clearly lost against the reigning champion Alba Berlin. While retired internationally in the quarter-final play-offs Euro Challenge 2009 against eventual champions Virtus Bologna, they met again in the national championship play-offs to Alba Berlin that could defeat in five games after one in the fourth game had lost home advantage. In a dramatic final series for the championship, but the title is playful in the closing seconds of the final and decisive game on the new champion EWE Baskets Oldenburg.
For the season 2009/10 Bowman again tried to make the leap to the NBA. In September 2009 it was announced that Bowman is part of the preliminary squad of the Philadelphia 76ers. There, however, he was dropped from the squad shortly before the start of the season and did not get a contract, after which he moved to first division club Tofaş Bursa in the Türkiye Ligi Basketbol. With the club but he missed the part in the play-offs to the Turkish championship. Also in the summer 2010, he was active in the Summer League NBA and played for the Charlotte Bobcats. There, however, he could not recommend it for a further contract to.
In the season 2010/11 Bowman signed a contract with the Bulgarian Lukoil Akademik Sofia club, but then changed the end of January 2011 for a six-week contract to " MSB " in Le Mans. This was not renewed on the part of the association and Bowman then moved up for the rest of the match to Serbia to KK FMP Železnik from Belgrade. In the season 2011/12 Bowman received a contract with the Israeli first division team Hapoel Rishon LeZion from. After the end of this contract, he moved in 2012 to the Korean Basketball League to Dongbu Promy from Wonju. The end of October 2012, he was made there in a player exchange for the former German national player Julian Sensley at the Samsung Thunders in Seoul. In January 2013 Bowman moved back into the first Israeli Hapoel Gilboa Galil league. But due to injuries he could not as they had hoped to be a top performer for his team.
For the 2013/2014 season Bowman was initially not a new team and regenierte in the U.S. and cured from his injuries. In November 2013 he finally signed a contract in Germany at promoted SC RASTA Vechta from the Beko BBL.