John Collins

BIOGRAPHY

John Martin Collins III  was born on September 23,1997, in Layton, Utah. He is a power forward in the NBA.

He played college basketball for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Collins appeared in all 31 of his team's game during his freshman year. He led the team in field goal accuracy at 54.7%. As a starter his sophomore year, Collins led the team in scoring with 19.2 points per game. His performance earned him recognition as the ACC Most Improved Player and he was named first-team all-ACC.

Collins was selected with the nineteenth overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks. During the 2017 NBA Summer League, he earned All-Summer League First Team honors due to his performances with the Hawks, which gave him averages of 15.4 points, 9.2 rebounds, and 1.0 assists per game in 23.1 minutes of action in the five games he played there. His highlight play was him dunking on Pelicans center Cheick Diallo. Collins later saw action in all five preseason games for the Hawks, coming off the bench with per game averages of 7.6 points, 7.0 rebounds, and 0.6 assists in 19.2 minutes.

On October 22, 2017, in his third ever NBA game, Collins recorded his first career double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds in a 116–104 loss to the Brooklyn Nets. He followed it up the very next night with another double-double performance against the Miami Heat, getting 14 points and 11 rebounds in a 104–93 loss. Collins had a solid rookie campaign, averaging 10.5 points and 7.3 rebounds on 57.6% shooting with 11 double-doubles. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team. 

For the 2018-19 season, Johnson showed drastic improvements. He improved his scoring and rebounding to 19.5 points and 9.8 rebounds per game.