Did you know these blokes have a basketball background?
With Tom Wilson, a former Australian Boomer, set to make his debut for Collingwood this weekend, the topic of basketball backgrounds has come up (yet again).
With that in mind, we thought we'd rank our top 10 current players (based on current form) with a basketball background.
Here's what we went with:
(To be eligible for this list, the player must have played a minimum of high level junior representative basketball)ย
4. Hugh Greenwood
The Suns star ignited his college basketball career as a guard with the University of New Mexico for the 2011-12 season, managing a stat line of 11.3 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.5 steals in his final year in the system.
In 2015, Greenwood had earned a pre-draft workout invite with the Utah Jazz in May, and by the end of August had left the Perth Wildcats one month into his three-year contract with the NBL outfit. Greenwood soon looked to pursue his career in Aussie Rules, signing a two-year category B rookie contract with theย Adelaideย Crows the next month.
@GoldCoastSUNS midfielder Hugh Greenwood still has the basketball bug, training with the @BrisbaneBullets during their GC training camp. Fits right in ๐ @9NewsGoldCoast pic.twitter.com/SnxFb8sLsp
— Dominique Loudon (@dloudon9) October 28, 2020
The athletic midfielder has since thrived as an onballer in the AFL after defecting to Gold Coast, emerging as an all-round contested midfielder.
