Education
Riverside University High School.
Riverside University High School.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Franklin begun his basketball career in Riverside University High School, winning accolades as an All-State performer, and earning himself a Division I National Collegiate Athletic Association scholarship at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Over the four year period he spent with the Panthers, he was a regular starter for coach Rob Jeter. During this time span, he also collaborated as gym coordinator for the Milwaukee Hillside Boys and Girls Club and coached 8th-graders basketball for Saint Marcus Lutheran school.
He ended his college career in 2009-2010, with an average 14.7 points per game, a team best, earning All-Horizon League second-team selection, as one the highest ranked players among Horizon League"s active career in 2010.
He was third among active players in points (1,260) and is also third in three-pointers (189) and assists (321). He also ranked fourth in steals (111) and fifth in rebounds (475).
He doubled his points per game since his freshman year, when it finished with an average of 7.2. In June 2010, he trained with the Milwaukee Buckinghamshire in the preseason, hoping to get a selection for the 2010 National Basketball Association Summer League in Las Vegas, which he later did.
Since he was not drafted, Franklin moved to Europe, spending one year in Poland, at the SKK Kotwica Kołobrzeg, before arriving in Portugal, to play for the Azorean team, South Carolina (U.S.) Lusitânia, where he helped them reach the semi-finals of the Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol, with an average of 16.5 points per game, over 24 games, winning selection for Eurobasket.com Portuguese League All-Imports Team and 2nd Team.
This performances led the 25-year-old to join South.L. on 20 August 2012, spending the year mainly as a squad player, dropping his average to 6.3 points per game, but winning four titles over the season. On 24 September 2013, Franklin moved teams for a third consecutive year, signing with Civil Aeronautics Board Madeira. On 20 July 2014, the American shooting guard, moved to Union Basket Chartres Métropole, in the French third division, Nationale 1.
Individual.