By Kostas Giataganas/ info@eurohoops.net
Russia, China, Greece and now Spain. Over the last three years, Chris Singleton has been changing teams steadily, however the element that remains a constant is his reliability and, in fact, at a very high level.
For other players, the question may be to rack up enough appearances for some bonus or their contract itself, but in the case of the forward who played for Panathinaikos and who will now play for Barcelona, there are barely any absences one can find in his record, at a time when the strain at a high level has gone through the roof.
Eurohoops documents the 29-year-old American’s unstoppable course, from the NBA, to the Olympic Sports Center Athens and the Palau Blaugrana in Barcelona, at the team he hopes to help return to the elite of the EuroLeague.
Florida and the NBA
Born in Canton, Georgia, he went through Florida State’s college basketball program (2008-2011), where he played for the Seminoles for three years, under the instructions of the longest serving and multi-winner for that particular institution coach, Leonard Hamilton.
In 2011, Singleton considered himself ready for the NBA and registered for the draft, where the Wizards selected him with the 18th overall pick and opened the door of the magical world for him.
From 2011 to 2014, he played in the colors of Washington, where he counted 66 and 57 appearances in the first two years, averaging 4.6 and 4.1 points respectively, though his third season was… jinxed, as he missed the first two months due to a fractured metatarsal of the left leg.
As a result, after his return he wasn’t able to really find a spot on the roster, and with only 25 appearances, at the beginning of the 2014/2015 season he found himself in China and the Jiangsu Dragons and then the G-League with the Oklahoma City Blue, making the decision to take a look at Europe too.
