Collin Pryor
Collin Anthony Pryor is an American and Icelandic professional basketball player for Selfoss. He debuted for the Iceland men's national [basketball team|Iceland national basketball team] in 2018. In 2019, he won the Icelandic Cup as a member of Stjarnan.
Early life
Pryor attended St. Charles East High School in Illinois, where he graduated from in 2008.College career
Pryor played college basketball for Northern State University. After redshirting his first year, he moved to the starting lineup as a freshman and averaged 10.8 points and 5.8 rebounds a game. He was a first-team all-conference selection as a sophomore, after averaging 15.2 points and 8.5 rebounds a game. Injuries hampered him during his junior season but he bounced back during his senior season, averaging team leading 16.2 points and 7.7 rebounds a game.Playing career
Pryor's first professional stop was with 1. deild karla club FSu in 2013. He averaged a team leading 28.6 points and 14.2 rebounds, but the team missed out on the playoffs on the last day of the regular season. He re-signed with the club for the 2014-2015 season and averaged 24.0 points and 13.6 rebounds, this time leading FSu to a 3rd place finish and a spot in the promotion playoffs. FSu knocked out Valur in the first-round and faced Hamar in a best-of-three series where the winner would be promoted to the top-tier Úrvalsdeild karla. After losing the first game, FSu finished strong by winning the next two games, and the series, with Pryor scoring a team leading 24 points in the third and deciding game.Although FSu went up, Pryor stayed in the 1. deild, signing with Fjölnir. He played two years for the club, helping them to the promotion playoffs both times. In 2017, he signed with Úrvalsdeild karla club Stjarnan. As Pryor had lived for four years in the country, Stjarnan had hoped that he would receive an exemption from the Icelandic Basketball Federation to play as a domestic player. The exemption was not granted and Pryor split his playing time with other Americans on the team, and averaged 13.3 points and 6.6 rebounds in 22 minutes per game during the regular season. In four playoffs games, he averaged 15.3 points and 6.3 rebounds in 28 minutes per game.
On 17 February 2019, Pryor had 9 points and 5 rebounds in Stjarnan's 84–68 victory against Njarðvík in the Icelandic Cup finals. In July 2019, Pryor left Stjarnan.
In August 2019, Pryor signed with Úrvalsdeild runner-up ÍR. In his first season with ÍR, he averaged 16.7 points and 5.4 rebounds per game before the last regular-season game and all the playoffs were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Iceland. Following the season, he signed a one-year contract extension. During the 2020–21 season, he averaged 18.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game but ÍR missed the playoffs with a loss in the last game of the season.