Robert Covington Trademarks

Robert Covington is a professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association. He plays forward for the Los Angeles Clippers.

Robert Covington was born in Bellwood, Illinois on December 14, 1990, to Dennis and Teresa Bryant. He attended Proviso West High School in Hillside, Illinois where he played basketball. He had a standout senior year where he averaged 18.1 points per game with an average of 11 rebounds and seven blocks per game. His play helped to lead his team to the West Suburban Championship.

Covington was invited to play in the Chicago High School Classic Senior All-Star Game. He was named All-Chicago by the Chicago Sun-Times Newspaper, Player of the Year of the Doings/Pioneer Press West All-Area Boys Basketball Team, All-Area, and All-Conference First-Team, and the West Suburban Conference Player of the Year.

He chose to attend Tennessee State University, where he majored in Human Performance and Sports Science. As a freshman, Covington started 28 of the 32 games that he played in, with an average of 27.3 minutes per game. During the season, he had a career-high game against Southeast Missouri State where he put up 27 points. His first collegiate double-double was against Tennessee Tech where he scored 24 points and 12 rebounds. He led his team in scoring for the season. That year he averaged 11.5 points per game with seven rebounds and more than one block per game. He was named to the All-OVC Newcomer Team and was honored as a Freshman All-American.

As a sophomore, Covington started 32 of the 33 games that he played in. He had another strong showing, producing eight double-doubles throughout the year. He led the team in steals, having produced five in one game on two different occasions. While playing a little more than 30 minutes per game, he averaged 17.8 points per game with eight rebounds and an assist per game. He was named All-OVC Second Team.

During Covington’s junior year, he started every game that he played in. He had two games in which he scored thirty points, a then career high. For the season, he averaged 13.3 points per game with seven and a half rebounds and one and a half steals per game. He was honored as Boxtorow HBCU First Team All-American, OVC First Team All-Conference, and OVC All-Tournament Team.

As a senior, Covington started in 28 of the 32 games that he played in for Tennessee Tech. He led the team in both steals and blocks, even though he missed 10 games that season due to an injury. For the season, he averaged 11.5 points per game with 6.5 rebounds, one steal, and one block per game. He was named Boxtorow HBCU All-American and Second Team All-OVC. He graduated having scored the seventh most points of any basketball player in the history of Tennessee Tech.

Covington went undrafted out of college and first played in the Summer League for the Houston Rockets. They signed him to a contract, but he spent his time in the D-League playing for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers where he had a solid season. He was asked to play in the 2014 NBA D-League All-Star Game, where he was named game MVP. He was widely considered the second-best player in the D-League. He was waived by the Rockets before the start of the regular NBA season.

In November 2014, Covington signed with the 76ers. He averaged between 12 and 13 points per season from 2014 until 2017 and started the majority of the games that he played. 2018-2019 was the last season that he played for Philadelphia. He appeared in just 13 games for them before being traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Covington almost had a double-double in his debut for the Timberwolves, where he scored 13 points and recorded seven rebounds. He played the rest of the 2018-2019 season with the team averaging 14.5 points per game with five rebounds and 2.3 steals per game. In his second season with Minnesota, he started 47 of the 48 games that he played and averaged 12.8 points per game with six rebounds and 1.7 steals per game.

He was traded back to the Houston Rockets in February 2020. When Covington returned to Houston, he started 21 of the 22 games that he played for them. He put up 11.6 points per game for them with eight rebounds and 2.2 steals per game.

Covington was then traded to the Portland Trailblazers, where he played for a season and a half only averaging between seven and eight points per game. In February 2022, he was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers where he is still an active player.

In 2020, Robert Covington obtained a federal trademark registration for “ALLERGIC TO FAILURE” for t-shirts and hoodies, and for operating sports camps, specifically basketball camps.