Nikki Greene Explained

Nikki Greene
Team:Whai
Number:54
League:Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa
Position:Power forward / center
Height Ft:6
Height In:4
Weight Lb:192
Nationality:American
Birth Date:September 6, 1990
High School:Diboll (Diboll, Texas)
College:Penn State (2009–2013)
Draft League:WNBA
Draft Year:2013
Draft Round:3
Draft Pick:26
Draft Team:Phoenix Mercury
Career Start:2013
Years1:2013–2014
Team1:Samsung Life Blueminx
Years2:2014
Team2:Los Angeles Sparks
Years3:2014–2015
Team3:A.S. Ramat Hasharon Electra
Years4:2015–2016
Team4:CCC Polkowice
Years5:2015
Team5:Connecticut Sun
Years6:2016–2017
Team6:Sleza Wroclaw
Years7:2017–2019
Team7:Bnot Hertzeliya
Years8:2019
Team8:Pszczolka AZS-UMCS Lublin
Years9:2019
Team9:Hobart Huskies
Years10:2019–2021
Team10:Angers - Union Feminine Basket 49
Years11:2022–present
Team11:Whai
Highlights:
  • French LF2 champion (2021)
  • PLK champion (2017)
  • TBA Defensive Player of the Year (2022)
  • Big Ten All-Defensive Team (2011)
Bbr Wnba:greenni01w
Letter:g

Sheniqua S. "Nikki" Greene (born September 6, 1990) is an American professional basketball player.

College career

Greene played college basketball for the Penn State Lady Lions between 2009 and 2013.[1]

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

|-| align="left" | 2014| align="left" | Los Angeles|11||0||3.5||20.0||0.0||100.0||1.0||0.0||0.1||0.1||0.5||0.5 |-| align="left" | 2015| align="left" | Connecticut|12||0||8.4||40.0||0.0||85.7||2.0||0.2||0.3||0.4||0.5||1.2 |-| align="left" | Career| align="left" | 2 years, 2 teams|23||0||6.0||30.0||0.0||87.5||1.5||0.1||0.2||0.3||0.5||0.8

Playoffs

|-| align="left" | 2014| align="left" | Los Angeles|1||0||3.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||1.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0 |-| align="left" | Career| align="left" | 1 year, 1 team|1||0||3.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||1.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0||0.0

College

Source[2]

Year !Team GP !Points FG% !3P% FT% !RPG APG !SPG BPG !PPG - 2009–10 31 218 43.9 53.5 6.2 0.4 0.6 1.8 7.0 - 2010–11 Penn State 35 298 43.2 48.5 7.8 0.2 1.1 2.1 8.5 - 2011–12 Penn State 33 323 47.2 64.3 7.8 0.4 1.1 1.4 9.8 - 2012–13 Penn State 32 293 48.5 65.1 8.5 0.3 0.8 1.2 9.2 - Career Penn State 131 1132 45.7 58.5 7.6 0.3 0.9 1.6 8.6

Professional career

Greene was selected 26th overall in the 2013 WNBA draft by the Phoenix Mercury.[3]

For the 2013–14 season, Greene played in South Korea for Samsung Life Blueminx.[4] She returned to the U.S. in 2014 and made her WNBA debut for the Los Angeles Sparks.

Greene split the 2014–15 season in Israel for A.S. Ramat Hasharon Electra and in Poland for CCC Polkowice. In 2015, she played her second season in the WNBA for the Connecticut Sun.

Greene returned to Polkowice for the 2015–16 season and played in Poland again in 2016–17 for Sleza Wroclaw. For the 2017–18 season, she played for Bnot Hertzeliya in Israel. She returned to Hertzeliya for the 2018–19 season, but left in January 2019 to play out the season in Poland with Pszczolka AZS-UMCS Lublin.

In 2019, Greene played in Australia for the Hobart Huskies of the NBL1.

For the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons, Greene played in France for Angers - Union Feminine Basket 49.

In 2022, Greene moved to New Zealand to play in the Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa for Whai, where she won the league's Defensive Player of the Year.[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nikki Greene. gopsusports.com. August 24, 2022.
  2. Web site: Nikki Greene. wnba.com. August 24, 2022. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150914223031/https://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/draft/2013/profiles/prospect_greene_nikki.html. September 14, 2015.
  3. Web site: McKenna. Katie. Women's basketball: Alex Bentley, Nikki Greene drafted to WNBA. collegian.psu.edu. April 16, 2013. August 24, 2022.
  4. Web site: Nikki Greene. eurobasket.com. August 24, 2022. subscription.
  5. Web site: INAUGURAL TAUIHI AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED. tauihi.basketball. August 24, 2022. August 24, 2022.