Brother of CJ McCollum is scoring in Greece

Although Lehigh's star and the nation's leading scorer CJ McCollum is banned from hooping with a foot injury, his older brother Errick is filling it up 5200 miles away as a pro.

Errick, 25, is playing his third season overseas in Western Greece for Apollon Patras and is ranked 8th in the league in scoring with 14 points per game. 

He recently completed one of the toughest two-weeks of his (thus far) short-lived career as Apollon took on Greek giants Olympiacos and Panathinaikos. 

Though McCollum's tenth seeded Apollon expectedly dropped both games, Errick showcased high-level scoring ability while running from wing to wing off of screens and creating off the dribble en route to an average of 20.5 points per against two top-notch Euroleague squads.

To put it in perspective, the Canton native netted 22 points on 61 percent field goal shooting against Panathinaikos, and 19 points via 8-13 attempts from the floor in a losing effort against the reigning Euroleague champions Olympiacos, drawing complements from Olympiacos' star players Acie Law and Kyle Hines. 

Early in his career McCollum signed in Israel's top division with Elitzur Netanya but saw limited action. That season, during the fourth-quarter of Netanya's blowout loss to Maccabi Tel Aviv, McCollum checked in and collected nine points in ten minutes, finishing as Netanya's third leading scorer.

On December 2011, McCollum returned to Israel after penning a deal with minor league team Hapoel Kfar Saba/Kohav Yair and went straight to work. He dominated the league in scoring posting double-digits in all 23 games earning the league's #1 scoring honors with 24.3 points, to which he added 8 boards and 3 assists per.

With just two Euroleague teams and one EuroCup representative, the Greek top division has lost a lot of its glamorous and talent over the recent years as most clubs suffer various financial burdens.