Devonte' Graham

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Devonte' Graham
Devonte Graham 2019.jpg
Graham with the Charlotte Hornets in 2020
No. 4–San Antonio Spurs
Position Point guard
League NBA
Personal information
Born (1995-02-22) February 22, 1995 (age 29)
Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
High school
College Kansas (2014–2018)
NBA draft 2018: 2nd round, 34th overall pick
Selected by the Atlanta Hawks
Playing career2018–present
Career history
2018–2021 Charlotte Hornets
2018–2019→Greensboro Swarm
2021–2023 New Orleans Pelicans
2023–present San Antonio Spurs
Career highlights and awards
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Stats   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals
Men's basketball
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Summer Universiade
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Gwangju Team competition

Devonte' Terrell Graham (born February 22, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks. He played high school basketball for Needham Broughton High School.

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High school career

Graham attended Broughton High School in Raleigh, North Carolina. As a senior, Graham averaged 15.7 points and 5.4 assists per game, leading the team to a 26–6 record and the 4A state championship game during the 2012–13 season. [1]

Graham originally committed to Appalachian State before deciding he wanted to play elsewhere. However, Appalachian State’s head coach at the time, Jason Capel, would not allow him to de-commit, as he felt other teams may have been tampering with Graham following his commitment to the university. Due to this, Graham elected to play a post-graduate year at Brewster Academy, in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, rather than honor his commitment to play for Appalachian State. [2]

At Brewster Academy, Graham averaged 17.2 points and 5.0 assists per game, leading the team to the national prep championship and the New England championship during the 2013–14 season. On May 2, 2014, Graham committed to Kansas, choosing them over North Carolina State and Virginia. [3]

College career

Freshman

As a freshman at Kansas, Graham averaged 5.7 points and 2.1 assists per game. He had a season-high 20 points against TCU on February 21, 2015. In the NCAA Tournament, he scored 17 points against Wichita State. [3]

Graham at Kansas. Devonte Graham.jpg
Graham at Kansas.

Sophomore

After scoring a then career-high 27 points on 8-of-13 shooting against Oklahoma, Graham was named Big 12 Player of the Week for the week of February 14, 2016. [4] At the conclusion of the regular season, Graham was named to the Big 12 All-Defensive Team. [5] He was named MVP of the 2016 Big 12 men's basketball tournament after scoring 27 points against West Virginia in the championship game. [6] As a sophomore in the 2015–16 season, Graham averaged 11.3 points per game while shooting 46 percent overall and 44 percent from 3 point territory. [7] [8]

Junior

As a junior, Graham was named to the Second Team All-Big 12. [9] Along with Frank Mason III, Graham formed the backcourt of a Kansas team that went 31–5 but lost in the Elite Eight, as Graham shot 0 for 7 from the field and missed six 3-pointers in a season-ending 74–60 loss to Oregon. For the season, he averaged 13.4 points, 4.1 assists and 3.1 rebounds per game. In April, Graham announced on Twitter that he was returning for his senior year. [10]

Senior

In his senior season, Graham was named the preseason Big 12 Player of the Year for the 2017–18 season. [11] On November 28, Graham scored a career high 35 points in a 96–58 win over Toledo. [12] The following game, a 76–60 win over Syracuse, Graham again scored 35 points. [13] Graham would go on to be unanimously selected as the Big 12 Player of the Year, averaging 17.6 points and 7.2 assists per game as a senior. [14] He was also named a consensus member of the First Team All-America by multiple organizations, leading his team to the 2017-18 Final Four in San Antonio, Texas. During his senior season, he averaged about 38 minutes a game. [8]

Professional career

Charlotte Hornets (2018–2021)

Graham was drafted in the 2nd round, 34th overall, of the 2018 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks before being traded to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for two second round picks. [15] In the Hornets' first three summer league games, he averaged ten points and six assists per contest. However, he would miss the rest of summer league with a knee injury. [16] Graham made his NBA debut on October 22, 2018, against the Toronto Raptors, recording no points and one assist in five and a half minutes of play. [17]

On October 23, 2019, Graham scored 23 points along with eight assists and four rebounds in a 126–125 win over the Chicago Bulls. Graham hit six three-pointers to help the Hornets set a new franchise record for three-point field goals made in a single game. [18] On December 11, 2019, Graham scored a career-high 40 points with five rebounds and five assists in a 113–108 win over the Brooklyn Nets. [19]

Graham was featured on The Dodo's Youtube channel in June 2021, in a video about his basketball career and his life with his German Shepherd dog 'Charlotte', who is named after the team he had been playing for. [20] [21]

New Orleans Pelicans (2021–2023)

On August 7, 2021, Graham was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans in a three-team trade involving the Memphis Grizzlies. [22] He made his Pelicans debut on October 20, recording 18 points and five assists in a 117–97 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. [23] On November 26, Graham hit a game-winning three-pointer with 1.9 seconds left to give the Pelicans a 98–97 win over the Utah Jazz. [24] On December 15, he hit a 61-foot, buzzer-beating shot to hoist the Pelicans to a 113–110 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. The shot set the NBA record for the longest buzzer-beating game-winner in league history, beating out Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's 55-foot shot in 1992 for the Denver Nuggets. [25] [26] [27] On March 24, 2022, Graham scored a season-high 30 points, alongside two rebounds and four assists, in a 126–109 win over the Chicago Bulls. [28] After a set of play-in tournament wins, the Pelicans qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2018 and faced the Phoenix Suns during their first-round series. Graham made his playoff debut on April 17, playing ten minutes in a 110–99 Game 1 loss. [29]

San Antonio Spurs (2023–present)

On February 9, 2023, Graham was traded, alongside four second-round picks, to the San Antonio Spurs in exchange for Josh Richardson. [30] Graham made his Spurs debut a day later, recording a season-high 31 points, three rebounds and three assists in a 138–131 double overtime loss to the Detroit Pistons. Graham's 31 points were also the most points scored in a debut in Spurs history. [31] [32]

On August 2, 2023, Graham was suspended for two games without pay for pleading guilty to a DWI charge. [33]

Career statistics

Legend
  GPGames 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

NBA

Regular season

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
2018–19 Charlotte 46314.7.343.281.7611.42.6.5.04.7
2019–20 Charlotte 635335.1.382.373.8203.47.51.0.218.2
2020–21 Charlotte 554430.2.377.375.8422.75.4.9.114.8
2021–22 New Orleans 766328.4.363.341.8432.34.2.9.211.9
2022–23 New Orleans 53015.3.368.347.7461.42.2.6.25.3
San Antonio 20826.4.380.358.7502.54.0.8.313.0
Career31317125.7.372.356.8122.34.5.8.211.6

Play-in

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
2021 Charlotte 1020.2.125.143.5002.04.01.0.04.0
2022 New Orleans 205.3.250.000–.5.0.0.01.0
Career3010.3.167.111.5001.52.0.5.03.0

Playoffs

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
2022 New Orleans 6010.0.333.357.8751.5.7.2.24.0
Career6010.0.333.357.8751.5.7.2.24.0

College

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
2014–15 Kansas 29017.8.393.425.7241.52.10.90.05.7
2015–16 Kansas 383632.6.460.441.7443.33.71.40.111.3
2016–17 Kansas 363635.3.428.388.7933.14.11.50.213.4
2017–18 Kansas 393937.8.400.406.8274.07.21.60.117.3
Career14211131.7.422.409.7873.14.51.40.112.3

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