John Allen (basketball)

John Allen ( born 1 November 1982 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania) is an American professional basketball player. After studying in his native country, he played as a professional from 2005 in Europe, more than one season in Finland and the German Basketball Bundesliga. In the season 2011/12 he was active in Anwil of Wloclawek in the Polish league.

Having previously played a season in Finland and Israel, he was active in the 2007/ 08 BBL season for the New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig from. With the Phantoms, he missed on the ninth round main place play-off round of the German Cup just barely. Then he played in the 2008/ 09 season, a year in the French LNB Pro A SIG Basket from the Alsace Strasbourg. With SIG Basket he left in the play-off quarter-final against the main round first and later master ASVEL Lyon- Villeurbanne. For BBL 2009/2010 season, he returned to Brunswick, where he made ​​the jump into the play- offs with the Phantoms. Here we turned off the main power first round first and defending champion EWE Baskets Oldenburg, but then retired in the semifinal series against the eventual champions Brose Baskets Bamberg from. After a few months in Finland had been active for Kauhajoen Karhu from Kauhajoki, he returned early January 2011, again in the BBL back and signed with the polar bears from Bremerhaven, with whom he reached another play-off qualification with the eighth main circular space. The polar bears left in the first round in 2011 against defending champion and eventual champions Brose Baskets.