MarShon Brooks

Marshon S. Brooks ( born January 26, 1989 in Long Branch, New Jersey ) is an American professional basketball player who is currently with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA under contract.

Career

College

Brooks played college basketball in the Big East Conference for the Providence Friars. In his first and second season there, he did not get much playing time in his third season there he was, however, an important part of the team that scored 14.2 points per game, including a 24 -point game in which he also 5 steals reached. On January 23, 2010, he scored a 25-point and 5- rebound game. In his senior season he improved to 24.6 points per game and was named one of 20 finalists for the John R. Wooden Award. In one game he scored 52 points, tying the school record and also surpassed the old record from the Big East, 48 points from Eric Murdock. Since he also reached 43 points against Georgetown in the same season, he became the third player in the Providence Friars, who could hang two 40 -point games in a season. He left high school two months earlier in order to prepare for the NBA Draft can.

NBA

New Jersey Nets

Brooks was selected as the 25th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft by the Boston Celtics, who shortly thereafter to the New Jersey Nets, the renamed itself after the season to the Brooklyn Nets, were trading him where he quickly became a major service provider.

After two seasons, he was as part of a nine- player trades (including Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce) to the Boston Celtics, the team that had drafted him two years earlier, transferred.

For the Celtics Brooks ran on only until January 2014 when he was then transferred to the Golden State Warriors. On February 19, he moved along with Kent Bazemore in exchange for Steve Blake to the Los Angeles Lakers.