[1] Over the next three and a half years, Jenkins worked for the United States Postal Service, as an electrician, and on the back of a garbage truck.

He holds numerous school records, and also was named 2001 Basketball Times Division III Player of the Year.

USC's Trepagnier, one of college's most prolific high flyers, missed his last dunk attempt, and the 6'1" (1.85 m) tall Jenkins, had one up his sleeve, wrapping it up with a foul line two-foot leaner.

He was previously playing with AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League, with Pistons draft pick Andreas Glyniadakis.

Five nights later, in a rematch of the 2004 NBA Finals, Jenkins scored 8 points, in only 6 minutes against the Los Angeles Lakers.

In 2005, Jenkins signed a contract with the Israeli team Hapoel Jerusalem, who had gotten sponsored by billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak shortly before.

He quickly became the star of the team (rivaling the former star from 2 years prior, Will Solomon, who played for their arch rivals Maccabi Tel Aviv that season), and led it to the EuroCup semifinals, and to the Israeli League Finals In the summer of 2006, he signed with the Turkish League giants Efes Pilsen.

In the middle of the 2006–07 season, he returned to Hapoel Jerusalem, after personal problems with his Turkish head coach arose (after the accusation from the previous year had been dropped), and he helped the team reach the Israeli league Final Four, in which the team lost to arch rivals Maccabi Tel Aviv.