Patrick Christopher is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and a member of the two first names club, along with Paul George, Chris Paul and the infamous Ricky Bobby.
During his time at Cal, he was a first-team all-conference selection after both his junior and senior seasons and finished ranked third in Golden Bear history in scoring and fourth in 3-pointers. For his college career, Christopher averaged 12.7 points, 1.8 assists, 3.8 rebounds and 0.8 steals. (which was greatly inflated by his 1.6 steals per game during his senior season.)
Christopher went undrafted in 2010 and started his professional career with a brief stint on the Detroit Pistons Summer League team before signing with Antalya BB in Turkey.