Malcolm Griffin (basketball)

Malcolm Griffin
Griffin in action with Zenit Saint Petersburg
No. 23 – AEK Athens
Position Point guard
League Greek League
Champions League
Personal information
Born (1991-08-10) August 10, 1991
Chicago, Illinois
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight 198 lb (90 kg)
Career information
High school Hyde Park Career Academy
(Chicago, Illinois)
College
NBA draft 2014 / Undrafted
Playing career 2014–present
Career history
2014–2015 Wydad Casablanca
2015 Champaign Swarm
2015–2016 Fath US de Rabat
2016 AS Salé
2016–2017 Liepājas Lauvas
2017–2018 Kolossos Rodou
2018 Zenit Saint Petersburg
2018–present AEK Athens
Career highlights and awards

Malcolm Xavier Griffin (born August 10, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for AEK Athens of the Greek League. Standing at 1.93 m (6'4"), he plays the point guard position. After two years at Toledo and two years at Fresno Pacific Griffin entered the 2014 NBA draft but was not selected in the draft's two rounds.

High school career

Griffin played high school basketball at Hyde Park Career Academy at Chicago, Illinois.[1] He led his team to a 27–5 mark as a senior and averaging 17 points, seven assists and five rebounds per game. Griffin also earned South MVP honors in the Chicago Classic All-Star Game, scoring 28 points in just 13 minutes of action.

College career

After graduating from high school, Griffin attended Toledo, where he stayed until 2011.[2] As a freshman, he averaged 7.1 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game. As a sophomore, he started 28 games for the Rockets, averaging 12.0 points, 4.0 assists, 2.6 rebounds and 1.4 steals per game while scoring in double figures against two ranked opponents, Illinois and Temple. He scored a career-high 31 points against Northern Illinois and had back-to-back 25-point games against Ball State and Bowling Green. The next two years, Griffin played at Fresno Pacific.[3] As a Junior, he played in 30 games, making 29 starts for the Sunbirds, earning 1st team NCCAA All-American and 1st team All-PacWest honors. He finished fourth in the league in scoring and led the PacWest in assists. As a senior he was a 1st team All-American and All-Conference once again, leading the Pacific West Conference in points, assists and steals.

Professional career

After going undrafted in the 2014 NBA draft, Griffin joined Wydad Athletic Club Casablanca at Morocco.[4] The same season, he also played for Champaign Swarm of the Midwest Professional Basketball Association. The following season, he returned to Morocco and played with Fath US de Rabat.

The next year, Griffin joined AS Salé at Tunisia.[5] In December 2016, he left the team in order to join Liepājas Lauvas of the Latvian League.[6] He led the Latvian league in assists, and was also named the Latvian Import Player of the Year, and Baltic League Defensive Player of the Year by the Eurobasket.com website.

On August 3, 2017, Griffin signed with Kolossos Rodou of the Greek Basket League.[7] On October 16, 2017, he was voted as the Greek League MVP of the week after having 30 points and 4 assists against Panionios.[8] The player also had 20 points in a near victory against former Greek League Champion Panathinaikos Superfoods. After leading the Greek League in scoring, and being third in assist and sixth in steals on January 22, 2018, Griffin was bought out from his Greek team by the VTB United League club Zenit Saint Petersburg of Russia. He signed a contract with Zenit for the rest of the 2017–18 season.[9][10]

On July 17, 2018, Griffin returned to Greece and joined AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League.[11] AEK is one of the giants of Greek basketball. During 2017–18 season they won the Greek Cup and also the European Champions League.

References

  1. ↑ "Fenso Pacific Bio". Retrieved April 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Hyde Park basketball star Malcolm Griffin chooses Toledo over Central Florida". blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com. April 13, 2009. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ "FPU signs National JUCO Player of the Year, NCAA D1 transfer". fpuathletics.com. June 21, 2012. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Mireles To Morocco". bobbeedenise.com. October 19, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Malcolm Griffin joined A.S.S for the ACC in Tunisia". probasketballoverseas.com. November 20, 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Liepaja/Triobet adds Griffin to their roster, ex ASS Sale". Sims-basketball.com. December 4, 2016. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Malcolm Griffin inks with Kolossos Rhodes". sportando.com. August 3, 2017. Retrieved August 6, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Greek A1 round 2 best performance: Malcolm Griffin". Eurobasket.com. October 17, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Malcolm Griffin signs with Zenit". Sportando.com. January 22, 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Malcolm Griffin Finalizing Buyout With Kolossos". Sportando.com. January 22, 2018. Retrieved Jan 23, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Malcolm Griffin signs with AEK Athens". Sportando.com. July 17, 2018. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
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