Jimmy McKinney
| Tigers Tübingen | |
|---|---|
| Position | Shooting guard |
| League | Basketball Bundesliga |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
August 23, 1983 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Listed height | 1.92 cm |
| Listed weight | 93 kg |
| Career information | |
| High school | Vashon (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| College | Missouri (2002–2006) |
| NBA draft | 2006 / Undrafted |
| Pro career | 2006–present |
| Career history | |
| 2006–2012 | Deutsche Bank Skyliners |
| 2012–2014 | s.Oliver Baskets |
| 2014–present | Tigers Tübingen |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Jimmy McKinney (born August 23, 1983) is an American professional basketball player and film actor currently playing for Tigers Tübingen of the Basketball Bundesliga.
Basketball career
McKinney attended Vashon High School in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the leading scorer on Vashon's 2001 and 2002 basketball teams, both of which won Missouri state championships. He later received a full scholarship to play college basketball at the University of Missouri. Since his graduation McKinney plays for the Frankfurt Skyliners. Since five seasons 2006 to 2011, he plays for the Frankfurt Skyliners, a basketball team in the Germany-1 Bundesliga, reaching the German Bundesliga Semifinals in 2008 and the German Bundesliga Cup Semifinals in 2009.[1] McKinney currently plays for s.Oliver Baskets in the Bundesliga.[2] On December 8, 2014 he signed with Tigers Tübingen.[3]
Acting career
Most notably, McKinney also landed a lead role of Jacob Whitmore, a basketball player in the 2009 film Streetballers, the debut feature movie of director Matthew Scott Krentz.
References
External links
- Jimmy McKinney at the Internet Movie Database
- Jimmy McKinney player page in University of Missouri Tigers site
- Streeballers official site
- Jimmy McKinney player page in Frankfurt Skyliners site
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