Allen Sharp

Allen Sharp
(Spotted Hyena, G/F)
ID# 29

Illustrated by KV1NN4
No. 3 – Retired
Position	Swingfur
Species	Spotted Hyena ( Hyaenidae )
Gender	Male
Nickname(s)
Three Piece
Personal information
Born	(1988-12-18) December 18, 1988 Atlanta, GA
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight	193 lb (88 kg)
Shoots	Right
Career information
High school	Eastern Atlanta Predator Academy Decatur, GA
College	Pack Territory University
FBA draft	2008 / Round: 1 / Pick: 23rd overall
Selected by the Newark Pride
Pro playing career	2008–2021
Career history
2008-2014	Newark Pride
2014-2015	Baltimore Spirits
2015-2021	Hawaii Kahunas
Player Contacts
(IC) Agent	Jeff Hunter (male coyote)
(OOC) Creator	Darren Zeraus
(OOC) Actor	N/A (up for adoption)
(OOC) Usage	Ask me before any use

Allen Isaiah Sharp (Spotted Hyena, born December 18, 1988) is a former male basketball player of the Furry Basketball Association.

Biography

Sharp was born in College Park - a remarkably violent suburb of Atlanta situated in the town’s southern part – into a family with strong athletic background. His father Jarrell Sharp was starting small forward for Atlanta Felidae University from 1983 to 1987, and later in his life covered all the steps from basketball assistant coach to Athletic Director for Eastern Atlanta Predator Academy, one of the most successful basketball high schools in Georgia. Allen was born in 1988 from a relationship between Jarrell, then 23, and Mo’Nique Botha-Newcombe, his high school long-time fiancée. Botha-Newcombe’s brother Kareem was a professional football player in the late eighties.

The youngest son of three, Sharp was interested in basketball since a very young age. His father started teaching the game to him and his siblings Cheyanne and Terrance (twins and two year older than Allen) as soon as they were able to ball, hoping that the forced effect of sibling rivalry would push them to bring out the fire they needed to be successful in the sport and hopefully follow their father’s pawprints. Yet Allen’s determination and obsession to be the best was unrivaled since he began grad school, while his older brothers lacked that same competitiveness, especially when they realized that their older brother would always be the best among the three. By the early 2000s, Allen was the only one still playing basketball competitively.

The hyena started to attract a lot of attention around the state of Georgia, and the buzz around his name only grew stronger during his tenure at Eastern Atlanta Predator Academy, the high school where his father Jarrell acted as Athletic Director. Sharp led EAPA to two state championships in 2006 and 2007, going on to make several accolades including a Mr. Furry Basketball of Georgia nod and a number of All-State mentions. He made nationwide headlines for the first time by recording a quadruple-double of 22 points, 10 rebounds, 12 assists and 10 steals in a high school game, famously spurring FSPN analyst Austin Cavalcanti to define him “the next big thing in furry basketball” in a televised segment.

All signs pointed out to Sharp following his father’s path to small Atlanta Felidae, but the young hyena wanted nothing but the best college program in order to foster his shot at a successful FBA career. Sharp enrolled to Pack Territory University and took little to no time to reach the top of the chain, quickly establishing himself as the alpha in a locker room riddled full with ego-driven, snarling predators. The numbers he averaged in his rookie season – 15.6 points, 5.4 assists and 4.7 rebounds per game – convinced him to forego his remaining three seasons of eligibility and declare for the 2008 FBA Draft as a one-and-done. Sharp was selected by the Newark Pride with the 23rd pick, joining Valencia Zeraus in what would turn out to be a highly successful project of team reconstruction. As such, he became a regular starter very early in his career, and made such a big impression on Newark’s GM Darren Zeraus that he was elected captain of the young team at the beginning of his sophomore year. Allen’s best season with Newark was in 2011-12, when he reaffirmed his value as an offensive stalwart by posting impressive stats such as 17.1 points, 4.0 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game.

The Pride enjoyed several successful seasons with Sharp at the helm, winning back-to-back division titles in 2012 and 2013. Newark went deep in the playoffs again and again, but they were never able to take the final step to the glory as their run ended in the Eastern Conference finals five straight times, each time against a different opponent.

The Pride’s core group of Sharp, Zeraus and Lance Freewell hit a first halt in 2014, when they were ousted from post-season by eventual champions Tennessee Moonshiners at the first round. That, in turn, called for a rebuilding for the New Jersey franchise, causing the Big 3 to break up. While Freewell went to the Keystones, the spotted hyena was traded to conference rivals Baltimore Spirits along with a 2nd round pick in exchange for Coburn Richardson and a sign-and-trade of Erin Wilcox.

The sudden relocation to Baltimore didn’t go down well on the veteran hyena, who found himself benched behind Silvia Windcreek and undrafted rookie Theodore Rockwell after laying down the law in Newark for half a decade. During the season, Sharp found himself repeatedly at odds with the Spirits’ management as well as the locker room, struggling to make an impact on the court due to limited use but at the same time being very vocal about lack of true leadership and team cohesion while in front of the microphones. At the end of the season, the Spirits chose not to renew Allen’s hefty contract, leaving the hyena without a team for the first time in seven seasons.

Sharp kept training hardly during the 2015-16 off-season, hoping to get another chance at winning that elusive championship ring. Hawaii Kahunas’ GM Wilmer Grehr signed him in as a late pick-up under the recommendation of freshly appointed team captain Scoonie Barrett, highly valuing the competitive edge and the experience the hyena could bring to the Hawaiian “crowd of misfits”.

Personal Life

During a team party at the tail end of his brief tenure with Pack Territory (and unbeknownst to him), Sharp fathered a son after a one-night-fling with hyena cheerleader Yesenia Gomez. The kid, legally named Caesar Allen Gomez, was publicly recognized by his father in 2010 after the girl filed in for child support. On February 13, 2012, the two-year-old pup died of pneumonia, the complication of a common flu. In the late stages of Caesar’s illness, the father reportedly took time from his road schedule to visit him, the first time he did since claiming him as his own son. To this day, Allen still offers monetary support to the mother’s family.

Sharp is renowned all over the league for his colourful hairstyles, a habit he took while in college at Pack Territory and never relinquished. Despite owning his own private villa in West Orange, New Jersey, he currently resides in a high-rise apartment in the middle of Honolulu, which team co-captain Scoonie Barrett left free upon upgrading to a hillside mansion.

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Art: Newark Pride Starting Lineup, circa 2011