Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 6, 2017
Cliff Clinkscales (born 1984) is an American professional basketball player for the Halifax Hurricanes of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada). A 6-foot-1-inch (1.85 m) point guard, he was named an NBL Canada All-Star in 2014 and was the captain of his league champion team in 2016. In fifth grade in Jamaica, Queens, in New York, Clinkscales' performance at a local basketball camp led to a feature in Slam Magazine and appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Rosie O'Donnell Show. He received recruitment letters from the Kansas Jayhawks and University of Southern California Trojans. He first played high school basketball at Shores Christian Academy in Ocala, Florida. He played with the DePaul Blue Demons at the collegiate level, and was the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I leader in assist-to-turnover ratio as a senior. He has been playing professionally since 2008 for the Erie BayHawks, Rio Grande Valley Vipers, Panama City Breeze, Halifax Rainmen and Halifax Hurricanes in the National Basketball Association Development League, the American Basketball League, and the NBL Canada. (Full article...)