Education
Collins attended Chamblee High School in Chamblee, Georgia, where he played basketball and ran track.
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He was selected to the all-Atlanta Metro team as a senior, and was Most Valuable Player of the Florida-Georgia All-Star Game. He also placed 3rd in the state finals in the 400m. He went on to play college basketball at Virginia Technical, where he scored 1144 points, averaging 10.5 points and 5.6 rebounds for his career.
Collins went undrafted in the 2007 National Basketball Association draft.
In August 2007, he signed with EnBW Ludwigsburg in Germany. In May 2008, he left the team
He went on to sign a contract with the Phoenix Suns. After participating in training camp, he was released before the regular season began.
He spent the 2008-2009 season with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the NBDL. In July 2009, he signed with ratiopharm Ulm.
He stayed with the German team for two seasons, leaving in May 2011. In September 2011, he signed with HKK Široki in Bosnia. In July 2012, he signed a two-year contract with Chorale Roanne in France.
In a breakout year, he averaged 10.6 points and 7 rebounds during the regular season, and increased his production by averaging 18.3 points and 7 rebounds in the playoffs.
In June 2013, he activated a release clause in his contract and left the team, paying the buyout himself. In July 2013, he signed a one-year deal with Azovmash of Ukraine.
Following the events of the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, amid the onset of the War in Donbass, he left Azovmash on March 1, 2014. Three days later, he signed with Manama Club of Bahrain.
On July 22, 2014, he signed a two-year deal with BCM Gravelines of the French LNB Pro A. On October 21, 2015, he parted ways with Gravelines after averaging 4.7 points and 2.7 rebounds per game.
Collins is also a freelance writer While at Virginia Technical he wrote a column for the student newspaper, The Collegiate Times. His writing has been published on various sites, including the Huffington Post and Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.com.
He speaks several languages, including German, French and Spanish.
