Chris Commons (basketball)
Commons with the River Lions in 2017
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| Forward Lease Rotterdam | |
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| Position | Forward |
| League | NBL Canada |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
December 8, 1984 Toledo, Ohio |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) |
| Listed weight | 220 lb (100 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Central Catholic (Canton, Ohio) |
| College | |
| NBA draft | 2009 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 2009–present |
| Career history | |
| 2009–2010 | Al Ittihad |
| 2010 | BSV Wulfen |
| 2010–2011 | Brunei Barracudas |
| 2011–2012 | Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Steamers |
| 2012 | Korikobrat |
| 2012–2016 | Windsor Express |
| 2016–2017 | Niagara River Lions |
| 2017–present | Rotterdam |
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Christopher Earl Commons (born December 8, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for Forward Lease Rotterdam of the Dutch Basketball League (DBL). Brought up in Toledo, Ohio, he played high school basketball at Central Catholic High School. Commons initially competed at the collegiate level for the University of Findlay before transferring to the University of South Carolina Aiken. At USC Aiken, he played in the NCAA Division II and earned all-league honors.
Upon his departure from college, Commons joined Al Ittihad in Bahrain. He then moved to Germany to play with BSV Wulfen. In 2010, he signed with the Brunei Barracudas in Southeast Asia. Commons returned to the USA in 2011 to compete for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Steamers, only to finish the season with the Finnish club Korikobrat. For the following four years, he represented the Windsor Express of Canada, where he garnered All-Star accolades and won two championships.
Commons spent his childhood in Toledo, Ohio near his grandparents, but he was mainly looked after by his mother Rena. His father worked at a charter bus company and was absent for most of the year. Chris attended the Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church three times each week with his extended family. Commons started playing basketball in fourth grade, and he supposedly tried to improve his shooting skills early on by nailing a milk crate to a tree in his yard. He also watched Chicago Bulls games on television in his bedroom.
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