Background
James, the son of Lisa Behrndt, was born and raised in Portland, Oregon.
James, the son of Lisa Behrndt, was born and raised in Portland, Oregon.
Grant High School.
He was a high school basketball standout playing for Grant High School in Portland. He played college basketball at Eastern Arizona College and Lamar University. While in Portland, he played basketball for Grant High School under coach Tony Broadous.
In 2007-2008, as a senior, he was ranked the Number.
3 Player in the state and Number. 184 overall. He averaged 15 points, 4 rebounds and 3 steals per game.
Eastern Arizona College
James started his college career at Eastern Arizona College, a national junior college where he played under coach Maurice Leitzke. In his first year he averaged 20 points per game shooting 42 percent overall, 33.3 percent from three-point range and 78 percent free throws.
He was named all-conference and all-region teams as well as being ranked Number.
40 best junior college player by Rivals.com. As a sophomore he was the fourth leading scorer in the NJCAA Division I recording 26 points per game. In addition he contributed 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals.
Lamar University
In 2010, James transferred to an National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I school, Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
Here he played under coach Steve Roccaforte in 2010-2011 and under coach Pat Knight for the 2011-2012 National Collegiate Athletic Association season. Playing a little over 18 minutes a game he scored 12.5 points per game, along with 2.4 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.1 steals.
He led the team in scoring, even though he only started two out of twenty-four games for the season. breaking the previous record of 50 set by Mike Oliver in 1980. In addition, he broke Lamar University’s Montagne Center record for most points scored in a single game with 52, field goals made with 18, field goal attempts with 35, three-pointers made with 11 and three-pointer attempts with 21.
In his senior season (2011-2012), he averaged 17.1 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2 assists and 1.6 steals per game shooting 45.3 percent overall.
His senior season ended in the first round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament with a loss against Vermont. By the end of his season he was named All-Southland First Team, Southland Tournament Most Valuable Player and Southland Conference Player of the week three times in four weeks. James went undrafted in the 2012 National Basketball Association draft.
In August 2012, he signed with KK Zagreb of Croatia for the 2012-2013 season.
In December 2013, he left Zagreb. In February 2013, he signed with Hapoel Gilboa Galil of Israel for the rest of the season.
In July 2013, he signed with Paffoni Omegna of Italy for the 2013-2014 season. In August 2014, he signed a one-year contract with Kolossos Rodou of Greece.
On December 2, 2014, he left Kolossos and signed with the Spanish club Laboral Kutxa Baskonia for the rest of the season.
On July 6, 2015, he re-signed with Baskonia for one more season. On July 7, 2015, James joined the Phoenix Suns for the 2015 National Basketball Association Summer League.