Kenyon martin is a well-known basketball player of American origin, famous for his current participation with the Denver nuggets of the National Basketball Association.
Kenyon Lee Martin was born on December 30, 1977 in the city of Saginaw, located within the state of Michigan, USA.
Inside the playing field his position is that of Power forward and his preferred jersey number is 6. His maximum height is 2.06 meters and he weighs approximately 109 kilograms.
After an excellent and colorful playing career in high school Bryan Adams High School, chose to enlist in the ranks of the University of Cincinnati.
There he developed an impressive performance that left almost all the coaches in the league admired. NCAA. This earned him a large number of awards, mostly obtained in his last two years.
In the season 1999-2000 received the Naismith Award, the Wooden Award and the impressive accolade of being the NCAA Player of the Year completely unanimously. His average closed at 18.9 points scored, 9.7 rebounds obtained and 3.5 blocked balls per game.
Once received from his career, he included his name within the 2000 NBA draft, being the last player received to be chosen in the first position.
His successors would be the high school players Kwame Brown, Lebron James Y Dwight howard, the internationals Andrew Bogut, Yao Ming Y Andrea Bagnani Y Greg oden, with only one year of college.
As a rookie in the season 2000-2001 he went from the position of Center to that of Power forward and reached a general average of 12 points, 7.4 rebounds obtained and 1.7 blocks per game.
This impressive work on defense helped the Nets to climb from the last position to win the title of the Eastern Conference. This was undoubtedly one of the best seasons of the team in the history of the NBA.
This year, thanks to all his achievements and his rapid rise within the league, he was unanimously named to the first team of the NBA All-Rookie Game.
Together with his companions Jason kidd Y Richard Jefferson, led the Nets at the end of NBA Championship 2002, where unfortunately the team of Kobe bryant, Los angeles lakers, ended up taking the victory.
Already in its third season within the NBA helped again the Nets to reach the championship finals, but this time it would be the San antonio spurs from Tim duncan Y Manu Ginobili who would leave them out.
The following year, in the season 2003-04, Martin reached a general average of 16.7 points scored, 9.5 rebounds obtained and 1.3 blocked balls. All this meant a unanimous participation within the NBA All-Stars Game for the team of the Eastern Conference.
In this game he scored a total of 17 points, grabbed 7 rebounds and helped with 3 assists. The match had a bit of friction when he almost fought with Alonzo Mourning but the incident did not happen to majors.
At the end of the season he was transferred to the Denver nuggets in exchange for the next election of the first place of the Draft and a contract of free choice in the future.
Unfortunately during the Offseason He had to be operated on on his left knee, due to a microfracture. This eventually led to a decline in his game and ability, causing a strong backlash among critics.
Last April 27, 2006 was suspended indefinitely from the main campus for having a “discouraging and contrary behavior towards the team”.
This was due to the fact that in the second match against Los Angeles Clippers in the Playoffs complained to the coach George Karl about his time on the court. Then he refused to play in the second half leading to this event.
As luck would have it, during the Offseason 2006 He should also have surgery on his right knee for a microfracture, so he had to miss all the games of the season 2006-07 except for two brief appearances.
Your future within the NBA It is somewhat uncertain, since only two players have recovered from reconstructive surgeries in all history: Danny manning Y Amare stoudemire.
He is currently training hard to give his best in the season 2007-08 where you plan to change your number to the 4 you used in college.