A professional basketball player from the United States who plays for the Milwaukee Bucks National Basketball Association. In the 2012 NBA Rookie Draft, he was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the second round at number 39. In August of the same year, he signed a contract with the Bucks but played only 27 matches in his debut season.
In the summer of 2013, Middleton became part of a player swap deal between Detroit and Milwaukee. In the new team, Chris played all 82 regular season matches, with 64 appearing in the starting lineup. On average, he scored 12.1 points per match. In his second season with Milwaukee, he scored 13.4 points per game.
In July 2015, Middleton signed a new five-year deal with the Bucks for $ 70 million, although he previously made less than a million in a year. In September 2016, Chris dropped out of the game for approximately six months with an Achilles tendon injury. He returned to the site in February 2017.
In November 2017, he scored a record 43 points per game against the Charlotte Hornets, which Milwaukee lost. On January 20, 2018, for the first time in his NBA career, he scored a trip-double against the Philadelphia 76ers.
In the 2017/2018 season, he raised his performance to about 20 points on average per match. Rebounds – more than 5 on average per game.
Early life and high school
Middleton was born on August 12, 1991, in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of James and Nichelle Middleton. He has an older sister named Britney, and his cousin Josh Powell played in the NBA. Another cousin, Kenny Manigot, played basketball at Wichita State University and was a teammate with Middleton on the Carolina Celtics team of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). Two other Carolina Celtics teammates have received first-division basketball scholarships, Jamal Curry (Radford) and Devin Booker (Clemson).
Middleton attended Porter Year School and played basketball for the Cyclones under John Pearson. In his sophomore year, he averaged 12 points and 8 rebounds per game. In his youth season, Middleton averaged 21 points and 8.6 rebounds per game and was named State Player of the Year. He became the senior player of the year, averaging 22.4 points per game and 8.6 rebounds per game, leading Porter-Gouda to the state title game. Middleton was named the Most Valuable Player in the Porter-Goud Classic with 22 league points. He was nominated for the 2009 McDonald’s All-American Boys Game but was not selected to participate.
ESPN ranked him 64th among the best promising players in the 2009 class and noted that he was the best shooter in his position. Middleton has been recruited by Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, South Carolina, Michigan, and St. Joseph. He chose Texas A&M and signed with the Aggies on May 30, 2008. He loved the campus vibe and got along well with the coaching staff.
College career
In her first year, Middleton was hired by then-Texas A&M assistant coach Scott Spinelli. As he entered his first year, Middleton hoped to fill the three-point gap in retired high school student Josh Carter. Middleton’s college career began slowly when he scored 1 of 12 field goals in his first three games. Following Derrick Roland’s leg injury at the end of the season on December 11, 2009, Middleton was forced to take on a larger offensive role and started 18 of his last 20 games. On February 3, 2010, he scored 16 points to help Texas A&M erase an 11-point deficit in the second half to beat Missouri 77–74. In the 69-53 round of the NCAA tournament, beating Utah, Middleton scored a season record of 19 points with 7 of 10 shots. Texas A&M’s season ended in a round of 16 defeat to Purdue; Aggie finished with a 24-10 record. Overall, Chris Middleton averaged 7.2 points and 3.7 rebounds per game and led the team five times.
In his sophomore year, Middleton led the team and finished ninth in the Big 12 with 14.3 points per game and 5.2 rebounds per game. He took 45 percent of his throws from the floor and 78.4 percent of his free throws. Middleton has scored over 10 points in 27 games and has led the team 16 times. He has a record 31 points in an overtime win over Arkansas (71–62), including 11 of the team’s last 12 points in the main season. This earned him the 12th Player of the Week and Best Player of the Week awards by Oscar Robertson for the week of December 13-19, 2010. On January 15, 2011, Middleton scored 28 points, including 11 in extra time, and defeated Missouri 91–89. Under Middleton’s leadership, Texas A&M went 24-9 and lost 57-50 in Round 64 of the NCAA to Florida in a competition in which Middleton scored 16 points. He was selected to the All-Big 12-second team after the regular season. The US Basketball Writers’ Association has included Middleton on a 10-member team that plays college basketball in the states of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The National Basketball Coaches Association recognized him as the National Basketball Coaches’ Selected Second Team of the All-Eighth District, making him eligible for the State Farm Division I All-America teams. Since the Big 12 conference was a separate district, this is tantamount to what the NABC called a second Big 12 team.
Junior year Middleton played against Iowa in 2012 Before Middleton’s youth season, head coach Mark Tegen left to take up the same position at the University of Maryland and was replaced by Billy Kennedy from Murray State. Middleton was impressed by Kennedy’s coaching insight and decided to stay at Aggie. He was inducted into the preseason for the Wooden Award. Middleton was the unanimous pick for the All-Big 12 preseason. Despite being one of the favorites in the league’s preseason, Texas A&M finished 14-18 overall and 4-14 in the Big 12. The team was hampered by several injuries, including a knee injury that caused Middleton to sit out 12 games. He averaged 13.2 points and 5.0 rebounds per game compared to the previous season. On April 9, 2012, Middleton announced an NBA Draft, relinquishing his final collegiate season. In his statement, he thanked Texas A&M.
