Michael-Hakim Jordan
Michael -Hakim Jordan (* June 24, 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is a former American professional basketball player who has played professionally after completing his studies for different clubs in Europe. As his biggest success of the German championship with the Rhein Energie Cologne is to be considered in 2006.
Career
Jordan studied in his hometown at the University of Pennsylvania and played for the high school team Quakers Basketball in the Ivy League NCAA Division I. The Quakers are historically the most successful basketball team in the Ivy League and one of the ten high school teams with the most wins in NCAA, but without having ever won the championship. Jordan was in his seasons with the Quakers in every season of the best assist provider per game in his last three years and also the best points scorer per game, so he was also appointed in all its seasons, the MVP of the Quakers. In these two categories, it is also among the five best players of all time the Quakers.
After graduating, Jordan was initially in the French LNB at Besancon Basket Comte Doubs active before he played in the International Basketball League, a short-lived spin-off of the also now defunct CBA in his home country. He then returned to Europe and played in the Spanish second division LEB in Murcia. After an engagement in Venezuela, he was obliged by the German second division club TSV Quakenbrücker and rose with the renamed Artland Dragons club superior without defeat in 2003 into the Basketball Bundesliga. Having a place in the play-offs for the German championship you just missed out in the first top-flight season, achieved in the 2004/05 season the first time making the play -offs. After his third season with the Dragons Jordan left the club and was briefly in the Latvian Ventspils active before he returned in December 2005 in the BBL to Cologne. With the people of Cologne in 2006 succeeded the championship and he could recommend for playing in the Italian Serie A club tradition from Cantù in Lombardy.
In the 2007 /08 season Jordan played one year in Charleroi, Belgium. After brief exposure to the Greek A1 Ethniki and the Israeli Ligat ha Al, he returned one more time in the BBL back and was established in November 2008 by his former Quakenbrücker coach Chris Fleming to the Brose Baskets Bamberg in Franconia as a replacement for the injured John Goldsberry fetched. After the signing of Dan Dickau Jordan walked on to the Köln 99ers, with whom he had won the championship in 2006. Following the summer break in the insolvency of the Cologne association Jordan was in December 2009 committed by the BBL promoted from Hagen and reached with the team in the league. For the new season, he was taken from the former Hagen Mitaufsteiger MBC from Weissenfels under contract and playing in the 2010/11 season in a team with his former teammate Guido Grünheid Cologne, with whom he had won the championship in 2006. In winter he moved to league rivals from Giessen, where he was however not further committed after the end of the season.
After a year without engagement as players Jordan decided to end his active career and was presented in the summer of 2012 as the new assistant coach of the basketball team from Colgate University. There he intended to convey his experience as a professional to young players.