Charles Jenkins

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 Colonial Athletic Association (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.

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

Charles T. Jenkins (born February 28, 1989) is an American professional basketball player.

He became just the fifth sophomore overall (and first since Ron Artest in 1998–99) to earn it in the 73-year history of the award to that point.

As a senior in 2005–06, he averaged 21.1 points, 7.2 assists and 5.1 rebounds en route to a New York Post selection to the All-New York City Team.

After redshirting his true freshman season of 2006–07, Jenkins began competing for the Hofstra University Pride in 2007–08.

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 Colonial Athletic Association history behind Hall of Famer David Robinson, who scored 2,669 points at Navy.

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.

Jenkins was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he lived in the Brownsville section for six years until moving to Rosedale, Queens.

The youngster took to basketball under the influence of two close family members: his father who had played collegiate ball for the Navy before transferring to Virginia Western Community College as well as his older brother who had played some high school basketball.

Teenage Jenkins commuted to Holy Cross High School until transferring to Springfield Gardens High School, where he played high school basketball for three seasons.

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 UNC Wilmington, 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 Haggerty Award, which is an award given annually to the greater New York Metropolitan area's best Division I men's basketball player.

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 Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Player of the Year.

Additionally, he became just the ninth repeat winner of the Haggerty Award.

He was drafted by the Golden State Warriors in the 2011 NBA draft after finishing his four-year college career with the Hofstra Pride.

In addition to being a citizen of the United States, Jenkins also has Serbian citizenship.

While attending Hempstead, New York's Hofstra University, Jenkins, a 6ft 3in guard 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.

In the 2011 NBA draft, combo guard Jenkins was selected in the second round (44th overall) by the Golden State Warriors after the team had taken shooting guard Klay Thompson with their first-round pick (11th) earlier in the night.

Due to the 2011 NBA lockout, Jenkins signed with the Italian team Teramo Basket of the Lega Basket Serie A 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 Mark Jackson.

Twenty-two-year-old Jenkins made his NBA debut on December 25, 2011, in the Warriors' 2011–12 season opener against the Los Angeles Clippers.

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 Steph Curry's backup minutes, rookie Jenkins ended up getting unexpected opportunities towards the end of the lockout-shortened season due to the third-year player Curry's persistent ankle injuries.

Though the team had signed Nate Robinson 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 Monta Ellis 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 Bob Myers 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 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas throughout July 2012.

Playing alongside Warriors teammates such as rookie Harrison Barnes 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 Jarrett Jack 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 team diminished severely, getting very little playing time with Curry back healthy and newly-acquired Jack getting most of the backup minutes.