Monday, January 23, 2012

Prairie View A&M basketball legend Greg Burks is giving back to Flint-area through assistant coaching

FLINT, Michigan — Greg “Toine” Burks is usually even keel about most things in life. He’s never been pompous and he doesn’t like to brag about his past accomplishments in basketball. However, next month will be a memorable one for the 1998 Flint Northern graduate.

Burks will enter The Prairie View A&M Sports Hall of Fame on Feb. 4. The ceremony will be held in Prairie View, Texas, at the Willie A. Tempton Memorial Student Ballroom beginning at 11 a.m. The 30-year-old alumnus is eager to return to his college alma mater for such a prestigious award.

“It’s a tremendous honor, and it’s something that I didn’t set out to achieve when I got to college,” said Burks. “I just wanted to go there and play the game the right way and I just felt I always had something to prove as far as basketball was concerned.”

He will be enshrined alongside eight others in the hall’s 18th class. Burks starred for the Panthers from 1998-2003 in men’s basketball. For his career, Burks averaged 17.1 points, 4.2 assists and 3.1 rebounds in 117 games. In the 1999-00 season, Burks led the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) in points per game with 18.4.


Gregory Burks, 5'-7" point guard, played professional basketball in Germany for seven years for the Mitteldeutscher BC (MBC), the highest German Basektball League.  Burks  is #0 in dark jersey with white headband in this 2009 game vs. Koln.

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