Ryan Brooks
Ryan Brooks ( born April 12, 1988 in New Orleans, Louisiana ) is an American professional basketball player. After studying in his native Brooks plays professionally in Europe. After a season in the Finnish Korisliiga he returned for the BBL 2012/ 13 to the casting 46ers back where he had started his professional career in 2010. After a bankruptcy petition the Giessen he left the club before the season ends and moved to Hesse Fraport Skyliners from league rivals Frankfurt am Main.
Career
Brooks initially grew up in New Orleans, before he and his mother moved to Pennsylvania and received his high school diploma at the Lower Merion High School. Their basketball team is known, among other things by Kobe Bryant, who was " drafted " right after the State Championship in 1996, the highest prize U.S. professional league NBA. Even Brooks was with the team a state championship win in 2006 and was subsequently not selected in the NBA Draft, but he was nevertheless offers for sports scholarships, including one of the local Temple University in Philadelphia. With their high school team Owls Brooks won three championship tournaments (English Championships Tournament ) of the Atlantic 10 Conference from 2008 to 2010 and 2010, the regular season. The three appearances at the national finals of the NCAA is different from each in the first round; 2010 as the fifth- placed team against the weaker classified Big Red of Cornell University from the less successful in basketball Ivy League.
After Brooks was allowed to play for in the NBA Summer League for the local NBA team Philadelphia 76ers, he finally got in Germany a professional contract with the National Basketball League founding member of Giessen 46ers. This slipped after a good start to the season in the BBL season 2010/ 11 in the basement table and were able to save the league with a winning edge. Then Brooks got a contract in the highest Finnish league for Namika from Lahti. Also, this team found predominantly bottom of the table again, which was replaced on the "guard " positions Steven Wright by Malik Moore, who had played also in the German Basketball Bundesliga as compatriots of Brooks before.
For the 2012/13 BBL season Brooks returned to Giessen, who had previously missed in the league athletic and could only achieve this by acquiring a wild card. However, the sporting and financial problems began with the club in the new season and therefore had at the end of a preliminary application for the opening of insolvency proceedings provide. The bottom team therefore four points were deducted, so that in the athletic and economic supposedly hopeless situation more players like Jasmin Perković left the club. End of January 2013, also Brooks and his teammate Laquan Prowell decided by an offer to leave the club, and also switched to the relegation rivals Fraport Skyliners Hesse Frankfurt am Main. After the successful league with the Skyliners Brooks received a new contract in Frankfurt despite good performances. He then moved up within the league to the Telekom Baskets Bonn.