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Charles T. Jenkins ( sr-cyrl, Чарлс Т. Џенкинс; born February 28, 1989) is an American-born naturalized Serbian professional
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player for FMP Meridian of the
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. He was drafted by the
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in the
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after finishing his four-year college career with the
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. In addition to being a citizen of the
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, Jenkins also has
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. While attending Hempstead,
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's
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, Jenkins, a
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for the Hofstra Pride men's basketball team, had already amassed 1,767 points, 440 rebounds, 331 assists and 156 steals through his first three seasons. He is Hofstra's all-time leading scorer (2,463), breaking Antoine Agudio's record (2,286) set in 2007–08, and graduated as the second leading scorer in
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history behind
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, who scored 2,669 points at
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. Jenkins had his jersey retired by Hofstra prior to his final home game of his senior season, making him the fourth player in school history to be so honored, and the first to have it retired while still active.


Early life and high school

Jenkins was born in
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, New York, where he lived in the Brownsville section for six years until moving to
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. The youngster took to basketball under the influence of two close family members: his father who had played collegiate ball for the
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before transferring to
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as well as his older brother who had played some high school basketball. Teenage Jenkins commuted to Holy Cross High School until transferring to
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, where he played high school basketball for three seasons. As a senior in 2005–06, he averaged 21.1 points, 7.2 assists and 5.1 rebounds en route to a ''
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'' selection to the All-New York City Team.


College career


Freshman

After redshirting his
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season of 2006–07, Jenkins began competing for the
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in 2007–08. He played in 29 games and averaged 15.0 points and 4.6 rebounds, led his team in free throw percentage (78.0), and finished 10th in the
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(CAA) in scoring (first among freshmen). Jenkins was named the CAA Rookie of the Year, Metropolitan New York Rookie of the Year and to the Third Team All-Metropolitan New York.


Sophomore

In 2008–09, Jenkins averaged 19.7 points and 4.8 rebounds in 32 games played. In the last game of the regular season against
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, he surpassed the 1,000-point milestone, joining Agudio as the only two sophomores to reach 1,000 points prior to their junior seasons. At the season's end, his 1,065 points stood 47 points more than Agudio's pace at the end of his respective sophomore season. Jenkins garnered numerous awards for his year. Among them was the coveted
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, which is an award given annually to the greater New York Metropolitan area's best Division I men's basketball player. He became just the fifth sophomore overall (and first since
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in 1998–99) to earn it in the 73-year history of the award to that point.


Junior

As a junior in 2009–10, Jenkins once again increased most of his season averages. He scored 20.6 points, grabbed 4.5 rebounds, dished out 3.9 assists and shot 40.9% from three-point range. On November 30, 2009, in an 84–80 win versus Fairfield, he scored a career-high 38 points on 12-for-17 shooting and went 9-for-9 in free throw attempts. Although the Pride would finish the year with a 19–15 overall record, Jenkins' personal play was good enough to make him the
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. Additionally, he became just the ninth repeat winner of the Haggerty Award.


Senior

Jenkins became just the third player all-time to win the Haggerty Award three times, joining
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( Columbia, 1968–70) and
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( St. John's, 1983–85), both of whom later achieved great success at the
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and/or
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levels of competition.


Professional career


NBA: Golden State Warriors

In the
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, combo guard Jenkins was selected in the second round (44th overall) by the
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after the team had taken shooting guard
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with their first round pick (11th) earlier in the night. Due to the 2011 NBA lockout, Jenkins signed with the Italian team
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of the
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on November 24, 2011. However, the lockout ended within two weeks and he left Teramo without playing any games for the club. On December 9, 2011, he officially signed with the Warriors, coached by
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. Twenty-two-year-old Jenkins made his NBA debut on December 25, 2011, in the Warriors' 2011–12 season opener against the
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. Briefly entering the contest, he finished with one assist in 1 minute of action. Settling into the role of fighting for the twenty-three-year-old starting point guard
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's backup minutes, rookie Jenkins ended up getting unexpected opportunities towards the end of the
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-shortened season due to the third-year player Curry's persistent ankle injuries. Though the team had signed
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early into the season to take most of Curry's point guard backup minutes, Jenkins would end up often starting in place of injured Curry. The rookie's minutes especially increased from March 2012, as Curry was ruled out for the rest of the season and
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got traded. On March 24, 2012, Jenkins scored career-high 27 points in a 90–87 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, continuing to post improved numbers until the end of the season and finishing with an average of 5.8 points and 3.3 assists in 51 games, 28 of them starts. The Warriors failed to make the playoffs; several days after their season ended, the team promoted its assistant general manager and former player agent
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to be the new general manager while simultaneously demoting existing GM Larry Riley to a scouting position. Heading into his second season at Golden State, twenty-three-year-old Jenkins participated in the
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in
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throughout July 2012. Playing alongside Warriors teammates such as rookie
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and fellow second-year player Klay Thompson, Jenkins had a good showing as the team won each of its five games with Jenkins the top scorer in two of them. Just before the Summer League, in anticipation of Robinson leaving, the team had signed point guard
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with the question of who would be Curry's primary backup in the upcoming season, Jack or Jenkins, initially left open. Once the season began, Jenkins saw his role on the
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diminished severely, getting very little playing time with Curry back healthy and newly-acquired Jack getting most of the backup minutes. On February 21, 2013, Jenkins was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers for a second-round draft pick.


Philadelphia 76ers

Joining the struggling Sixers, a team well out of the playoff spots and on the verge of tanking for a better draft position, Jenkins was again relegated to the bench, getting sporadic minutes way down in the pecking order behind guards preferred by head coach Doug Collins such as
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,
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, Nick Young,
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, and even the newly-acquired
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who joined several weeks after Jenkins. At the end of the season, with no firm NBA offers other than several training camp invitations, Jenkins began considering Europe as an option via instructing his agent to pursue those opportunities as well, revealing in later interviews he first got alerted to professional basketball outside the U.S. by fellow Philadelphia benchwarmer
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who had explained the European club basketball system to him during one of their Sixers team flights while offering personal advice "not to settle for an NBA
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career since there is life in European basketball".


Moving to Europe: KK Crvena zvezda

On July 30, 2013, following interest from
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and
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, Jenkins signed a one-year contract with the Serbian team Crvena zvezda Belgrade, citing its superior financial offer as his main consideration due to having no specific knowledge of any European clubs. Joining the squad coached by
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, Jenkins came in alongside a number of acquisitions—including center
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, coveted small forward
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, shooting guard
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, and power forward
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—as the Adriatic League runner-up looked to reinforce on all positions ahead of its return to Euroleague after 14 years as well as continuation of the chase for its first
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title domestically. With experienced returning players—point guard
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in his second season with the team, small forward Marko Simonović, and center Raško Katić—newly-acquired Schilb, coming off a great Euroleague season with
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and signed to a 3-year contract, was projected to lead the team in Euroleague. With Schilb as the focal point of coach Radonjić's setup initially, Jenkins was mostly coming off the bench while sharing minutes at the two position with Blažič along with occasionally backing up compatriot Nelson at point guard. Drawn in a Euroleague group with
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,
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,
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, Baskonia, and
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, Zvezda failed to progress to the Top 16 Euroleague stage with a 4–6 record that was nevertheless good enough to continue the European season in the second-tier Eurocup's Last 32 stage. With Schilb's suddenly increasingly peripheral role in the team due to not fitting in coach Radonjić's plans all of which eventually led to the player being left off the squad in mid January 2014 and the two sides agreeing a negotiated settlement to break off the 3-year deal after only 6 months, Jenkins saw his minutes increase, scoring team-high 16 points in a Eurocup home win versus
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. Not long afterwards, by mid-to-late January 2014, he accepted the offer of extending his contract with Crvena zvezda for an additional year with an opt-out clause in the summer transfer window should he receive an NBA offer. In 2014–15 season, Crvena zvezda won the
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championship, the
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championship and the
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.


Seasons in Europe

On July 8, 2015, Jenkins signed with Italian club
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for the 2015–16 season. On July 15, 2016, Jenkins returned to Crvena zvezda, signing a two-year deal. In 2016–17, he led the EuroLeague in steals, with 2.1 per game. Jenkins was also named 2017 ABA League Playoffs
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, where he averaged 12.3 points, 5.3 assists, 3 rebounds, 1.5 steals and average PIR of 15.2. On June 29, 2017, Jenkins signed a two-year deal with Russian club
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. Jenkins played for HBC Sicklerville in the 2018 edition of
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. He scored 3 points and had 2 rebounds in the team's first-round loss to the Talladega Knights. In the 2018–19 EuroLeague season, he averaged 6.9 points on 42.0% three-point shooting, 2.8 rebounds and 1.0 steal per game over 29 games. On July 5, 2019, Jenkins signed a two-year deal for Crvena zvezda. It is his third stint with the Zvezda. On June 20, 2020, Jenkins signed a contract with Greek club
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of the EuroLeague.


Personal life

Jenkins has one brother and one sister. He cites Dwayne Washington as his favorite athlete, and prior to selecting Hofstra he had also been recruited by St. John's and
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.


Career statistics


NBA


Regular season

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EuroLeague

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, 24 , , 4 , , 19.1 , , .356 , , .310 , , .800 , , 1.3 , , 1.3 , , .9 , , .2 , , 6.6 , , 3.7 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2015–16 , style="text-align:left;",
Olimpia Milano Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano, commonly known as Olimpia Milano or as EA7 Emporio Armani Milan after its title sponsor, is an LBA Italian professional basketball team, based in Milan, Italy. Its colors are white and red, and the team is sometimes ...
, 10 , , 8 , , 26.1 , , .472 , , .583 , , .500 , , 1.6 , , 1.8 , , 1.5 , , .0 , , 6.7 , , 5.6 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2016–17 , style="text-align:left;",
Crvena zvezda Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in B ...
, 30 , , 29 , , 26.1 , , .444 , , .425 , , .848 , , 1.9 , , 2.7 , , style="background:#CFECEC;", 2.1 , , .1 , , 9.4 , , 9.5 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2017–18 , style="text-align:left;",
Khimki Khimki ( rus, Химки, p=ˈxʲimkʲɪ) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, 18.25 kilometres northwest of central Moscow, and immediately beyond the Moscow city boundary. History Origins and formation Khimki was initially a railway station tha ...
, 34 , , 22 , , 21.4 , , .455 , , .451 , , .769 , , 1.7 , , 1.7 , , .9 , , .1 , , 5.5 , , ? , - , style="text-align:left;", 2018–19 , style="text-align:left;",
Khimki Khimki ( rus, Химки, p=ˈxʲimkʲɪ) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, 18.25 kilometres northwest of central Moscow, and immediately beyond the Moscow city boundary. History Origins and formation Khimki was initially a railway station tha ...
, 29 , , 25 , , 24.4 , , .490 , , .420 , , .828 , , 2.8 , , 1.2 , , 1.0 , , .2 , , 6.9 , , ? , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan=2, Career , 194 , , 109 , , 21.3 , , ? , , .407 , , .808 , , 1.8 , , 1.6 , , 1.2 , , ? , , 6.0 , , 5.1


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List of KK Crvena zvezda players with 100 games played KK Crvena zvezda is a men's professional basketball club based in Belgrade, Serbia. Crvena zvezda is a part of the Adriatic Basketball Association and competes in the ABA League, EuroCup and in the Basketball League of Serbia. The team play dom ...


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EuroLeague profile
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jenkins, Charles 1989 births Living people Serbian men's basketball players American men's basketball players American emigrants to Serbia ABA League players All-American college men's basketball players American expatriate basketball people in Italy American expatriate basketball people in Russia American expatriate basketball people in Serbia American expatriate basketball people in Greece Basketball League of Serbia players Basketball players from New York City BC Khimki players Golden State Warriors draft picks Golden State Warriors players Hofstra Pride men's basketball players Holy Cross High School (Flushing) alumni KK Crvena zvezda players KK FMP players Olimpia Milano players Olympiacos B.C. players Naturalized citizens of Serbia People from Brownsville, Brooklyn People from Rosedale, Queens Philadelphia 76ers players Point guards Serbian expatriate basketball people in Italy Serbian expatriate basketball people in Russia Serbian expatriate basketball people in Greece Serbian people of African-American descent Shooting guards Sportspeople from Brooklyn Sportspeople from Queens, New York