Jamaal Magloire
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| Position | Center |
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| Nickname | Big Cat |
| Height | 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) |
| Weight | 259 lb (118 kg) |
| Team | Portland Trail Blazers |
| Nationality |  Canada |
| Born | May 21, 1978 (age 28) Toronto, Ontario |
| High school | Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute |
| College | Kentucky |
| Draft | 19th overall, 2000 Charlotte Hornets |
| Pro career | 2000–present |
| Former teams | Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets (2000–2005) Milwaukee Bucks (2005–2006) |
| Awards | 1-time All-Star |
Jamaal Magloire (born May 21, 1978 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional basketball player, currently playing for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association. He attended Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute.
A 6'11", 259-pound (2.11 m, 117.5 kg) center, Magloire started 12 games as a sophomore for the Kentucky Wildcats team that won the national championship in 1998. He finished his college career as Kentucky's all-time leader in blocked shots, with 268.
He was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets with the 19th pick of the 2000 NBA Draft, but filled a reserve role for his first two seasons in which he averaged 6.5 points in 16.8 minutes per game. But in 2002-03, the Hornets' first year in New Orleans, he started all 82 games, averaging 10.3 points and 8.8 rebounds per game.
2003-04 was the season in which Magloire really began to get some respect from coaches and peers around the NBA. He averaged 13.6 points and 10.3 rebounds per game while starting all 82 games, and was even named to the Eastern Conference All-Star Team. Magloire being named an All-Star was perhaps a controversial decision at the time, with many pundits and sportswriters asking, "Who the heck is Jamaal Magloire?" But he more than held his own against the best the NBA had to offer, contributing 19 points and 8 rebounds in his 21 minutes of action.
On October 26, 2005, he was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for Desmond Mason, a 2006 first-round draft pick and cash considerations.
On July 31, 2006, during the offseason, Magloire was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for Steve Blake, Ha Seung-Jin, and Brian Skinner.
Although Magloire has averaged nearly 10 points per game throughout his entire NBA career, he did not score over nine points in a single game during his first 20 games as a Trail Blazer. Only five times has Magloire recorded over 11 points in a game through 73 2006-07 season games.[1]
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[edit] Justin Sheppard
In the early morning hours of June 23, 2001, Magloire's half-brother, 19-year old Justin Sheppard, was shot and killed on the footbridge that spans the ravine around Rosedale Valley Road between Bloor Street East and Glen Road in Midtown, Toronto. Like Magloire, Sheppard was a promising basketball talent at Eastern Commerce, and was supposed to begin a scholarship at a Maryland prep school that fall. Magloire helped post a $50,000 CAD reward, but to date, there have been no arrests.[2]
[edit] Trivia
- He is of Trinidadian descent.
- On May 17, 2006, he was given a star on the Scarborough Walk of Fame in Scarborough Town Centre mall, becoming one of its first inductees.
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| 2000 NBA Draft | ||
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| First Round Kenyon Martin | Stromile Swift | Darius Miles | Marcus Fizer | Mike Miller | DerMarr Johnson | Chris Mihm | Jamal Crawford | Joel Przybilla | Keyon Dooling | Jérome Moïso | Etan Thomas | Courtney Alexander | Mateen Cleaves | Jason Collier | Hidayet Türkoğlu | Desmond Mason | Quentin Richardson | Jamaal Magloire | Speedy Claxton | Morris Peterson | Donnell Harvey | DeShawn Stevenson | Dalibor Bagarić | Jake Tsakalidis | Mamadou N'diaye | Primož Brezec | Erick Barkley | Mark Madsen |
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| Second Round Marko Jarić | Dan Langhi | A. J. Guyton | Jake Voskuhl | Khalid El-Amin | Mike Smith | Soumaila Samake | Eddie House | Eduardo Nájera | Lavor Postell | Hanno Möttölä | Chris Carrawell | Olumide Oyedeji | Michael Redd | Brian Cardinal | Jabari Smith | DeeAndre Hulett | Josip Sesar | Mark Karcher | Jason Hart | Kaniel Dickens | Igor Rakočević | Ernest Brown | Dan McClintock | Cory Hightower | Chris Porter | Jaquay Walls | Scoonie Penn | Pete Mickeal |
Categories: 1978 births | Living people | Black Canadians | Canadian basketball players | Charlotte Hornets players | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball players | New Orleans Hornets players | Milwaukee Bucks players | Portland Trail Blazers players | Ontario sportspeople | People from Toronto | Trinidad and Tobago Canadians
