2024 STATISTICS

BIO

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Owns career averages of 6.7 points, 4.3 rebounds and 16.1 minutes through over 100 professional games in Portugal, Montenegro, Germany and the United States.

2023-24: Averaged 6.1 points, 4.0 rebounds and 16.0 minutes in 35 contests with the NBA G League’s Oklahoma City Blue … Split averages of 11.1 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game in his 11 starts … Recorded three double-doubles, including a dominant performance of 20 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks Jan. 10 vs. Rio Grande Valley … Scored 20 points on a perfect 10-10 from the floor, also adding nine rebounds and three blocks Nov. 25 vs. Rio Grande Valley …  Helped the Blue to the franchise’s first-ever G League Championship in a series victory over the Maine Celtics.

2022-23: Selected with the 12th pick in the second round of the 2022 NBA G League Draft by the Oklahoma City Blue … Split time between the Blue and Fort Wayne (now Indiana) Mad Ants … Averaged 6.1 points, 4.0 rebounds and 16.0 minutes in 35 games with the Blue and 4.4 points, 3.2 rebounds and 11.5 rebounds in 19 games with the Mad Ants … Started nine games, all with the Blue … Recorded two double-doubles on the year, including a 21-point, 10-rebound, two-block outburst Jan. 12 against the Ignite … Grabbed a season-high 11 rebounds to go with six points Jan. 21 vs. Texas.

2021-22: Played 29 games with the Kirchheim Knights of Germany’s second-tier ProA league … Averaged 7.6 points, 4.4 rebounds and 0.7 blocks in 18.9 minutes per contest … Started 11 games … Scored in double figures 11 times … Logged a season-high 16 points on a perfect 5-5 from the floor, also retrieving nine rebounds March 4 vs. Medipolis SC Jena … Blocked a season-high three shots in three different games.

2020-21: Averaged 10.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 19.0 minutes in eight games with KK Lovćen in Cetinje, Montenegro … Started two games … Scored in double figures in five games … Scored a season-high 18 points on 7-13 from the floor and 1-1 from three to go with seven rebounds June 2 vs. Buducnost … Pulled down a season-best 13 rebounds to go with 15 points in a double-double performance April 21 vs. KK Sutjeska.

2019-20: Averaged 7.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 13.5 minutes in an eight-game campaign with FC Porto in Portugal … Started two games, both times scoring in double figures … Set season highs in points (14) and rebounds (11) in his single double-double on the year Feb. 8 vs. Esgueira. 

UNIVERSITY / COLLEGE CAREER 

Averaged 10.9 points, 6.2 rebounds and 1.6 blocks in a 119-game collegiate career at Southern Nazarene University … Ended his NCAA career as the school’s all-time leader in blocked shots and ranked tenth in career rebounds

2018-19: Averaged 15.0 points, 7.6 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game, all career-best marks, through 34 contests as a senior with the Crimson Storm … Recorded nine double-doubles … Scored in double figures in all but four games … Dominated with a career-high 31 points to go along with nine rebounds March 16 vs. St. Cloud State … Pulled down a season-high 15 rebounds, also adding 23 points, Dec. 16 vs. Dallas Baptist …  Blocked a career-high seven shots Nov. 24 at Arkansas-Fort Smith … Set the Crimson Storm single-season block record with 67 on the year … Named Great Athletic Conference (GAC) Defender of the Year for the second consecutive season.

2017-18: Averaged 13.2 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.7 blocks through 30 games as a junior … Started every game … Recorded five double-doubles … Scored 20 or more points five times … Registered 11 multi-block games … Scored a season-high 25 points Feb. 10 at Harding … Grabbed a season-best 12 rebounds March 3 vs. Southeastern Oklahoma …  Named GAC Defender of the Year and to GAC All-Tournament Team.

2016-17: Averaged 9.5 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.8 blocks in 29 games as a sophomore … Started all but one game … Reached double-figure scoring in 13 contests, including five double-double performances … Scored a season-high 18 points in the final game of the season March 3 vs. Ouachita Baptist … Set a season high in rebounds with 13 to go with 12 points Nov. 17 at Henderson State … Blocked a season-high five shots twice: Nov. 11 vs. Ouachita Baptist and Jan. 28 vs. Henderson State.

2015-16: Averaged 4.4 points, 3.1 rebounds and 14.7 minutes as a rookie at Southern Nazarene … Started two games … Scored a season-high 12 points Jan. 23 vs. Southeastern Oklahoma, then again Feb. 6 vs. Arkansas Tech … Recorded a season-best four blocks Dec. 3 at Harding. 

PERSONAL

Majored in business pre-law in college … Was teammates with brother Jared Starkey, who also plays centre, at Southern Nazarene … Enjoys hunting and running outside of basketball … Plans to attend medical school after playing career.