Jimmy McKinney

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Jimmy McKinney
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McKinney for Telekom Baskets Bonn in 2015
Free agent
Position Shooting guard
Personal information
Born (1983-08-23) August 23, 1983 (age 40)
St. Louis, Missouri
NationalityAmerican
Listed height192 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Listed weight93 kg (205 lb)
Career information
High school Vashon (St. Louis, Missouri)
College Missouri (2002–2006)
NBA draft 2006: undrafted
Playing career2006–present
Career history
2006–2012 Deutsche Bank Skyliners
2012–2014 s.Oliver Baskets
2014–2015 Tigers Tübingen
2015–2016 Telekom Baskets Bonn
Career highlights and awards

Jimmy McKinney (born August 23, 1983) is an American professional basketball player and film actor. [1]

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Basketball career

McKinney attended Vashon High School in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the leading scorer on Vashon's 2001 and 2002 basketball teams, both of which won Missouri state championships. He later received a full scholarship to play college basketball at the University of Missouri. Since his graduation McKinney plays for the Frankfurt Skyliners. Since five seasons 2006 to 2011, he plays for the Frankfurt Skyliners, a basketball team in the Germany-1 Bundesliga, reaching the German Bundesliga Semifinals in 2008 and the German Bundesliga Cup Semifinals in 2009. [2] McKinney currently plays for s.Oliver Baskets in the Bundesliga. [3] On December 8, 2014, he signed with Tigers Tübingen. [4]

Coaching career

McKinney was hired as the head coach of the boys basketball team at Kirkwood High School in St. Louis on July 24, 2020. [5]

Acting career

Most notably, McKinney also landed a lead role of Jacob Whitmore, a basketball player in the 2009 film Streetballers , the debut feature movie of director Matthew Scott Krentz.

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References

  1. "Team 2015/2016 – Jimmy McKinney" (in German). Telekom Baskets Bonn. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  2. "Eurobasket Jimmy McKinney player page". eurobasket.com.
  3. "Jimmy McKinney basketball profile". eurobasket.com.
  4. "Jimmy McKinney moves to Tubingen Walter-Tigers". sportando.com.
  5. "Kirkwood High School has a new boys' basketball coach". ksdk.com.