Jason Cain

Jason Edward Cain ( born March 31, 1985 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional basketball player who plays professionally in the German Basketball League after completing his studies in his home country. In the season 2011/12 Cain played with the polar bears from Bremerhaven, having previously played for four years at the Phantoms from Braunschweig. After that followed a season at the BBC Bayreuth, before he went to Spain in the second division to Leyma Basket Coruña 2013.

Career

Cain played during his studies at the University of Virginia for the high school team Cavaliers in the NCAA Division I. In his senior year of 2007, the Cavaliers were able to qualify for the first time after six years for the national finals, where they retired in the second round. Cain, who among other things played together with the later also playing in the BBL Elton Brown during his student days, had personally rather average stats in college, continued his career after graduation as a professional still continues.

In 2007 he received a contract with the New Yorker Phantoms in Germany, where he remained faithful in the next four years. In the first two years, however, the Phantoms failed to qualify for the play-offs for the German championship. After a change of coach Sebastian Machowski took over as coach at the Brunswickers and could lead twice in the play-offs for the championship this. Under coach Machowski initially increased the operating time of Cain and he was able to improve his free throw percentage, he also came into his fourth and last season for the Brunswick as a distance shooter with a quten three-point throw percentage in appearance and made ​​his points not only directly in basket nearby.

After the end of the season, 2011, he accepted an offer of polar bears Bremerhaven for the upcoming season and moved to the North Sea coast.

From the polar bear from Bremerhaven, he moved to a season in the League and signed a contract for two years until 2014 BBC Bayreuth. The contract, however, was dissolved on the part of the club after the 2012/13 season. Cain then moved to Spain and signed a contract with the second division Leyma Basquet from A Coruña in the LEB Oro for the season 2013/2014.