Chris Copeland
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Copeland with the New York Knicks in April 2013
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| No. 34 – Tofaş | |
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| Position | Small forward / Power forward |
| League | Turkish Basketball Super League |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
March 17, 1984 Orange, New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) |
| Listed weight | 235 lb (107 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Hermitage (Henrico, Virginia) |
| College | Colorado (2002–2006) |
| NBA draft | 2006 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 2007–present |
| Career history | |
| 2007 | Fort Worth Flyers |
| 2007 | CB L'Hospitalet |
| 2007–2008 | Matrixx Magixx |
| 2008–2010 | TBB Trier |
| 2010–2012 | Okapi Aalstar |
| 2012–2013 | New York Knicks |
| 2013–2015 | Indiana Pacers |
| 2015–2016 | Milwaukee Bucks |
| 2016–present | Tofaş |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Christopher Stephen Copeland (born March 17, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for Tofaş of the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL). Standing 6'8" and weighing 235 pounds, Copeland played college basketball for the University of Colorado Boulder from 2002 until 2006.
Copeland was born in Orange, New Jersey to mother, Terry, in 1984. With his father absent from his life from birth, Copeland always looked up to his older brother, Vincent Alphaquan, a basketball standout at Seton Hall Prep and Columbus High School in New York before he played at Jackson State. At age 4, he established a practice routine with Vincent as his coach, honing his game with various dribbling drills in a narrow alleyway next to their house. He continued with the regimen through childhood at Elmwood Park under Vincent's guidance. This all changed in May 1997 when Vincent slipped into a coma after a drunk driver struck him in a hit-and-run accident on Central Avenue in East Orange, just a few blocks away from the Copelands' house. He regained consciousness for a couple days, but six weeks after the accident, he unexpectedly died. Vincent, engaged to marry that June, was 22.
One weekend in August 1999, Copeland and his mother visited his aunt in Richmond, Virginia where she brought Copeland, then 15, to nearby Hermitage High School. He wandered into the gym where, by chance, the school's players were running pick-up games. He was already 6-foot-6, and he was immediately noticed. Upon their chance encounter with the coaches at Hermitage, Terry decided she and her son would leave New Jersey. She quit her job as a senior administrator for Unity Hospice in Newark, and by October 1999, her son was enrolled at Hermitage. As a senior in 2001–02, he averaged 15 points, 9.0 rebounds, 3.7 blocks per game for the Panthers as he earned Most Valuable Player honors, as well as Virginia High School Colonial District Co-Player of the Year, Virginia All-State honorable mention, all-region, all-district and all-metro first-team selection. As both a junior and senior, he helped Hermitage win the Colonial District Championship.
In his freshman season at Colorado, Copeland proved to be a valuable contributor off the bench as he often provided CU with clutch points despite limited minutes. In 26 games, he averaged 2.5 points and 1.6 rebounds in 7.7 minutes per game.
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