Thomas Robinson

What grabs me about Thomas Robinson is not the fifth-overall draft hype but the second act. A consensus All-American out of Kansas and a Big 12 Player of the Year, he carried sky-high expectations into the NBA, then quietly reinvented himself, even naturalising to play internationally. I respect athletes who keep finding a court to fight on after the spotlight moves elsewhere far more than one-season wonders. At 206 cm he was always going to be hard to miss, but it's his durability and willingness to start over in new leagues that earns my admiration. A grinder with real backbone.

Name (English)

Thomas Robinson

Name (Japanese)

トーマス・ロビンソン

Reading

とーます・ろびんそん

Born

March 17, 1991 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Goat

Origin

Washington, D.C., United States

Height

206 cm

Occupation

basketball player

High school

Eastern High School

University

University of Kansas

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/trobinson_foe/
• Xhttps://x.com/Trobinson0
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%20(%E3%83%90%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B1%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB)

Tags

• basketball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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