Kenny Adeleke
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Kenny Adeleke is a Nigerian American
Nigerian American
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basketball
Basketball
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player who plays in Italy
Italy
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for NSB Napoli.
Adeleke played basketball and tennis at Paul Robeson High School in Brooklyn, New York. During Adeleke's senior year at Paul Robeson High School (The 2000-2001 season), he was named P.S.A.L. Player of the Year by the New York Daily News
New York Daily News
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while averaging 19 points per game and 13 rebounds per game.
Adeleke studied and played at Hofstra University
Hofstra University
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for 3 years before moving to the University of Hartford
University of Hartford
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, where he graduated. After going undrafted in the 2006 NBA Draft
2006 NBA Draft
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, Adeleke signed up to the 2006 CBA Draft and was selected as the #2 pick overall by the Butte Daredevils
Butte Daredevils
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. He was signed by the New York Knicks
New York Knicks
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to play on the Knicks Summer league squad in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
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in the Summer of 2006 but after playing sparingly, Adeleke was waived.
In the 2006/2007 NBA preseason, he played for 2 games with the Seattle SuperSonics
Seattle SuperSonics
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before being released. Adeleke went on to play in Israel and played for Hapoel Galil Elyon.
Adeleke has again signed with Seattle Supersonics to join their Summer League Roster for the 2007 Vegas Summer League averaging 3.5 points and 2 rebs per game at 8 minutes per game through the first 2 games.
He also played in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
for NSB Napoli, now he is playing in Turkey
Turkey
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for Hacettepe University
Hacettepe University
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.