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Aaron Gordon
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American basketball player (born. 1995)
Key facts
- Position
- Power forward / small forward
- League
- NBA
- Born
- ( 1995-09-16 ) September 16, 1995 (age 30) , San Jose, California , U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
- Listed weight
- 235 lb (107 kg)
- High school
- Archbishop Mitty , (San Jose, California)
- College
- Arizona (2013–2014)
- Nba draft
- 2014 : 1st round, 4th overall pick
- Drafted by
- Orlando Magic
- Playing career
- 2014–present
- 2014 2021
- Orlando Magic
- 2021 present
- Denver Nuggets
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- Denver Nuggets
- Position
- Power Forward
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aaron
- Family name
- Gordon
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Jose
- Sibling
- Drew Gordon
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- Orlando Magic
- Position played
- power forward
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 220
- Image
- Aaron Gordon 2019 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 206
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- date of birth
- 1995-09-16
- Commons category
- Aaron Gordon (basketball)
- drafted by
- Orlando Magic
- sport number
- 00
- birth name
- Aaron Addison Gordon
- start of work period
- 2014-00-00
- social media followers
- 207664
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Encyclopedic overview
Aaron Addison Gordon (born September 16, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in San Jose, California, Gordon attended Archbishop Mitty High School where he led his team to two state championships and was named California Mr. Basketball in his junior and senior years. Gordon then played one year of college basketball with the Arizona Wildcats, during which they won the Pac-12 regular season title and reached the Elite Eight of the 2014 NCAA tournament.
Gordon was selected by the Orlando Magic as the fourth overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft. Gordon has twice been a runner-up in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest, losing close matchups to Zach LaVine in 2016 and Derrick Jones Jr. in 2020. After being traded to the Nuggets in 2021, Gordon won his first NBA championship in 2023.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aaron Gordon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.