DeAndre Jordan

DeAndre Jordan

No. 9   Los Angeles Clippers
Center
Personal information
Date of birth	July 21, 1988 (1988-07-21) (age 23)
Place of birth	Houston, Texas
Nationality	American
High school	Christian Life Center Academy (Humble, TX)
Listed height	6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)
Listed weight	250 lb (113 kg)
Career information
College	Texas A&M
NBA Draft	2008 / Round: 2 / Pick: 35th overall
Selected by the Los Angeles Clippers
Pro career	2008–present
Stats at NBA.com

Medal record
Men’s basketball
Competitor for  United States
FIBA U19 World Championship
Silver	2007 Novi Sad	Team competition

Hyland DeAndre Jordan, Jr. (born July 21, 1988) is an American professional basketball player at center for the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA. He played a year of college basketball at Texas A&M University. He was drafted by the Clippers with the 35th pick in the 2008 NBA Draft.

Early years

Jordan was born in Houston, Texas to Kimberly Jordan and Hyland Jordan.

In high school, Jordan averaged 15.0 points, 12.0 rebounds and 4.0 blocks as a sophomore; 16.5 points, 14.0 rebounds and 7.0 blocks as a junior and 26.1 points, 15.2 rebounds and 8.1 blocks per game as a senior. He was a Parade All-American, named to the first-team All-Greater Houston squad by the Houston Chronicle and was a two-time all-state selection. At Christian Life Center, Jordan posted a career high of 37 points in a game and also set the school record for most blocks in a game with 20.

Coming out of high school, Jordan was rated as the number 8 overall prospect, the number 2 center in the country and the number 1-ranked prep player in Texas by Rivals.com. Jordan was recruited by Florida, Florida State, Indiana, Texas, Texas A&M, LSU, Kentucky and others.^[1]

In the summer of 2007, Jordan played for Team USA at the 2007 Under 19 World Championships in Serbia. Jordan played only 9 minutes per game. The team finished 2nd with an 8–1 record.^[2]

College career

Before Jordan arrived in College Station, Aggies head basketball coach Billy Gillispie left the school to take the head coaching position at Kentucky. Jordan chose to honor his commitment to the university.

Jordan started 21 of 35 games in his freshman season at Texas A&M. He averaged 20 minutes and 1.3 blocks per game. In those games, he shot a team-high of 61.7 percent in field goals, but a team-low of 43.7 percent in free throws. Most of his field goals, however, were within a few feet from the basket.^[3] He finished the season averaging 7.9 points and 6.0 rebounds.^[4] He made the Big 12 All-Rookie Team for his efforts.^[5] After the season, he declared for the 2008 NBA Draft.^[6][7]

Prior to the draft, draftexpress.com, a third party NBA draft website, listed Jordan's strengths and weaknesses. A few strengths include "incredible physical specimen", "defensive potential", "incredible upside", and "freakish athlete". Some weaknesses include "not productive", "poor fundamentals", "mediocre footwork", and "high bust potential".^[8] The website also projected him to be picked at No. 16 by the Philadelphia 76ers.^[9] Other mock drafts had him projected to be picked at No. 10 by the New Jersey Nets or at No. 11 by the Indiana Pacers due to his attractive ability to run the floor.^[3] ESPN's Chad Ford had him going to the Memphis Grizzlies at pick No. 28 in the first round.^{[10][11][12][13]}

NBA career

In the 2008 NBA Draft, he was selected at No. 35 by the Los Angeles Clippers.

Due to injuries among the Clippers' low post players, Jordan was pushed into the starting lineup for the January 19 game against the Timberwolves. In his first game as a starter, he recorded 6 blocks, 10 rebounds, and 8 points in 34 minutes of game play. In the January 21 game against the Lakers, he played for 43 minutes and recorded a career-high of 23 points. This included a rare feat of 10 dunks, which had only been accomplished by two players (Dwight Howard and Shaquille O'Neal) over the past 10 NBA seasons. ^[14] Despite his performance, both games resulted in losses.^[15] On January 25th, 2009, Jordan had 20 rebounds in just his 4th career start, joining Shaquille O'Neal, Tim Duncan and Aaron Gray as only the fourth rookie to do so.

NBA career statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2008–09	L.A. Clippers	53	13	14.5	.633	.000	.385	4.5	.2	.2	1.1	4.3
2009–10	L.A. Clippers	70	12	16.2	.605	.000	.375	5.0	.3	.2	.9	4.8
2010–11	L.A. Clippers	80	66	25.6	.686	.000	.452	7.2	.5	.5	1.8	7.1
Career		203	91	19.5	.649	.000	.414	5.7	.4	.3	1.3	5.6

References

1. ^ DeAndre Jordan - Basketball Recruiting
2. ^ "Counterpoint: Draft DeAndre Jordan". http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=426697. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "NBA: A&M's Jordan brings highs and lows to draft". http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/big12/stories/MYSA-624-8.jordandraft.en.3224da7c.html. 
4. ^ "Jordan's game trying to catch up with his body". http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=3437642. 
5. ^ "2008 Phillips 66 All-Big 12 Men's Basketball Awards Selected" (Press release). http://www.big12sports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/031008aaa.html. 
6. ^ SportingNews.com - Your expert source for NBA Basketball stats, scores, standings, blogs and fantasy news from NBA Basketball columnists
7. ^ SportingNews.com - Your expert source for NBA Basketball stats, scores, standings, blogs and fantasy news from NBA Basketball columnists
8. ^ "DeAndre Jordan". http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/DeAndre-Jordan-1072. 
9. ^ "2008 Mock Draft". http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-mock-draft/2008/. 
10. ^ "Chad Ford's Mock Draft, Version 6.0: Picks 1-30". http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2008/columns/story?columnist=ford_chad&page=MockDraft-080623. 
11. ^ "Texas A&M center DeAndre Jordan sees his draft stock fall". http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/story/721544.html. 
12. ^ "Jordan presents difficult decision". http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/5854773.html. 
13. ^ "Upside has downside for Texas A&M's DeAndre Jordan". http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/colleges/texasam/stories/062608dnsposherrington.3ac6956.html. 
14. ^ "Daily Dime: Bynum plays Duncan to a standstill". http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dime-090126. 
15. ^ "Amid injuries Clippers find promise". http://www.pe.com/sports/basketball/clippers/stories/PE_Sports_Local_W_ja_col_22.4cd7787.html. 

External links

• College career statistics at ESPN
• Official Texas A&M bio

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Name	Jordan, Deandre
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Date of birth	July 21, 1988
Place of birth	Houston, Texas
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