Evan Turner

Evan Turner
Turner on October 25, 2010
No. 12   Philadelphia 76ers
Guard
Personal information
Date of birth October 27, 1988 (1988-10-27) (age 23)
Place of birth Chicago, Illinois
Nationality American
High school St. Joseph (Westchester, Illinois)
Listed height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight 205 lb (93 kg)
Career information
College Ohio State (2007-2010)
NBA Draft 2010 / Round: 1 / Pick: 2nd overall
Selected by the Philadelphia 76ers
Career highlights and awards
Stats at NBA.com
Medal record
Men’s basketball
Competitor for  United States
Summer Universiade
Bronze 2009 Belgrade Team competition

Evan Marcel Turner (born October 27, 1988), nicknamed The Villain, is an American basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers. Turner was drafted 2nd overall by the 76ers in the 2010 NBA draft. Turner plays the point guard, shooting guard and small forward positions. Turner is a first-team 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American and 2010 National Player of the Year. Turner is the incumbent two-time Big Ten Conference scoring champion and the reigning Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year. He has twice been the only player named as a unanimous first-team selection by both the coaches and the media to the All-Big Ten team (2008–09, 2009–10). By finishing first in scoring and second in both rebounds and assists in the conference in the 2009–10 season, he is the first men's basketball player to finish in the top two in each of these categories and in fact, the first to finish in the top five in each category in the same season.

Turner attended St. Joseph High School in Westchester.[1][2] By his senior season, he was one of the top high school basketball players at his position in the nation.[3][4][5] As a true freshman, he helped lead the Buckeyes to the 2008 National Invitation Tournament championship. The following year, he was the Big Ten Conference scoring champion for the 2008–09 season and was a first-team 2009 All-Big Ten selection.[6][7] That season, he was also an honorable mention All-American and was selected as a member of the 2009 All-Big Ten Conference Tournament team,[8] and he became one of five Big Ten players to have been among the top ten in the conference in average points, rebounds, and assists in the same season.

He was selected to various 2009–10 preseason All-American teams including ESPN and FOX Sports. Turner was named among the 50 preseason 2010 Wooden Award watch list nominees and the 50 preseason Naismith College Player of the Year watchlist nominees. He was selected as a Midseason Top-30 finalists for the Wooden Award. He was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers as the second pick in the 2010 NBA Draft.[9] He is the conference record-holder for most career Conference Player of the Week awards and despite missing over a month of his junior season for the 2009–10 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team he also set the single-season record for Player of the Week awards.

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Youth

Turner was born weighing 10 pounds (4.5 kg). Within his first year, he endured chicken pox, pneumonia, asthma, and measles. The 1989 Chicago measles epidemic caused Turner to desperately need emergency room services. He encountered severe breathing problems that required the removal of his adenoids and tonsils. At the age of 3, he was hit by a car, resulting in a concussion and stitches. Oversized baby teeth and an overbite caused a speech impediment that necessitated speech therapy.[10]

High school career

Turner was a star on the 2002–03 Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School's varsity boys basketball team that finished the 2002–03 season with a record of 23–2.[11] He played in the Summer 2004 AAU Boys 15-under Basketball National Championship Tournament for the Illinois Knights.[12] As a high school sophomore, he helped lead St. Joseph to a run in the Illinois AA Boys High School basketball tournament,[13] which helped him get the attention of NCAA Division I basketball coaches.[1] At St. Joseph's, which had once produced Isiah Thomas,[1] he was part of a Chicago area sophomore class that was considered to be the best in the history of the state of Illinois. It included Derrick Rose, and his St. Joseph's teammate Demetri McCamey,[1] who overshadowed him as the second best Chicago area prospect in the class behind Rose.[14][15] The class of 2007 was compared to the Chicago area class of 1979 that included Thomas, Terry Cummings, and Darrell Walker as well as the class of 1998 that included Quentin Richardson, Corey Maggette, Frank Williams, Bobby Simmons, Michael Wright.[1]

Turner started getting major Division I offers early in his junior year,[16] and he and McCamey attended 2005 Midnight Madness with the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team.[17] At the beginning of his junior season, Chicago Tribune named him to its annual top Chicago metropolitan area basketball players list,[18] and it ranked St. Josephs number three in the area.[19] The team went to the state sectional final before its season ended with a 75–72 sectional final loss to Proviso East High School.[20] After his junior season, he was considered one of the top 25 prospects in the country in his class according to one scout,[21] and he was given special mention by the Chicago Tribune and honorable mention by the Associated Press for all-state honors.[22] During the summer of 2006, he committed to Ohio State, which is located in Columbus, Ohio.[23] Turner's decision was influenced by his relationship with his father, James Turner, who lived in Columbus, Ohio and whom Turner had visited every summer since he was ten years old.[24]

During his senior season, his team was listed second to Rose's Simeon Career Academy in the preseason Tribune Chicago area high school basketball team rankings.[25] That season, he and Rose were both named to the first-team Associated Press 2006–07 Class AA all-state team, a day before Rose's Simeon eliminated Turner's St. Joseph in the Illinois Class AA supersectional.[26][27] Turner and McCamey finished third and sixth to Rose in the Illinois Mr. Basketball voting,[2] and the Chicago Tribune chose both of them as first team All-state selections along with Rose.[28] Turner was ranked as the #7, #13 and #16 small forward in the nation as a high school senior by ESPN, rivals.com, and scout.com respectively.[3][4][5] He received scholarship offers from five Big Ten Conference basketball programs, as well as Wake Forest, DePaul and Notre Dame.[5]

Name Hometown High school / college Height Weight Commit date
Evan Turner
SF		 Chicago, Illinois St. Joseph (IL) 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) 205 lb (93 kg) Jun 29,
2006 
Scout:   Rivals:   ESPN grade: 96
Overall recruiting rankings: Scout: 16 (SF)   Rivals: 49, 13 (SF)  ESPN: 49, 7 (SF)
Note: In many cases, Scout and Rivals may conflict in their listings of height and weight.
In these cases, an average of the two was taken. ESPN grades are on a 100-point scale.
Sources:

College career

Freshman year

As a freshman, he averaged 27.1 minutes per game, 8.5 points per game, and 4.4 rebounds per game over the course of the season and finished second on the team in assists and third in steals.[29][30] Turner recorded his first career double double on January 19, 2008 at Thompson-Boling Arena against the Tennessee Vols with his first 20-point game and first 10-rebound game.[31][32] That season, he helped Ohio State win the 2008 National Invitation Tournament by averaging 18.5 points, 7 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 3 steals in the tournament's semifinal and final round at Madison Square Garden.[33][34] He had also scored in double digits in the quarterfinal round.[35] He was also in the starting lineup for the other two NIT games.[36][37] He contributed at least 24 minutes as a starter in each of the five tournament games.[31]

Sophomore year

As a sophomore, Turner was named player of the week three times during the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season (December 8, 2008, February 2, 2009, and February 9, 2009).[38][39][40] On February 26, Turner became the only Big Ten player selected by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) as a Top 15 finalist for the Oscar Robertson Trophy.[41] As a guard/forward for the Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team of the Big Ten Conference, he led his team in the following per-game statistical categories: points, rebounds, assists, and steals.[42] Turner led the Big Ten in scoring as a sophomore.[6] He and Manny Harris became the 4th and 5th players in conference history to finish in the top ten in the conference in points, rebounds and assists since assists became a statistic in 1983–84, following Steve Smith, Jim Jackson, and Brian Evans.[43]

Although he was not selected as a preseason All-Big Ten conference player,[44] he was the only person chosen as a unanimous first-team All Big Ten selection by both the coaches and the media at the end of the regular season.[7] On March 5, the National Association of Basketball Coaches honored Turner as a District 7 (Big Ten)[45] first-team selection along with four other sophomores.[46] He was also chosen on March 10 by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association for its 2008–09 Men's Division I District V (OH, IN, IL, MI, MN, WI) Team, based on voting from its national membership.[47] He was selected as a 2009 All-American honorable mention by the Associated Press.[48] On March 15, he was selected to the 2009 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament team, despite Ohio State's loss in the final game to Purdue.[8][49] Turner played for the 2009 Junior USA World University Championships team, along with conference foes Robbie Hummel of Purdue and Talor Battle of Penn State. He helped them to the bronze medal and a 6–1 record.[50]

Junior year

His junior season began with numerous accolades. ESPN chose both Kalin Lucas and Turner to its 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season preseason second-team All-American list.[51] FOX Sports preseason All-American list included him on its fifth team.[52] Turner was named among the 50 preseason Wooden Award watch list nominees and the 50 preseason Naismith College Player of the Year watchlist nominees.[53][54] The 24-member Big Ten media panel selected him as a first team preseason All-Big Ten team member.[55]

Turner, nicknamed "The Villain" for his ability to rip the hearts out of his opponents on their own floor, opened the season by recording the first triple double by a Big Ten player since January 13, 2001 and the second in school history (Dennis Hopson was the first) during the Coaches vs. cancer classic against Alcorn State University.[56] This earned him his fourth career Big Ten player of the week honor although first of the 2009–10 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season.[57] The following week, he ran his streak of double doubles to four to earn back-to-back player of the week honors.[58] Two weeks after his first triple-double, he repeated the feat at home against Lipscomb University on November 24.[59] This earned him his third consecutive Big Ten player of the week award.[60] On December 5, 2009 in the fourth week of the season, he suffered transverse process fractures of the second and third lumbar vertebra in his back, which was expected to cause him to be inactive for two months.[61] Turner returned early from his injury on January 6, 2010.[62] This occurred two days after Ohio State fell out of the top 25 in the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings on January 4 in his absence.[63] With Turner back in the lineup, Ohio State returned to the top 25 on January 18,[64] and Turner earned his fourth Big Ten Player of the Week award on the same day after leading his team to wins over two ranked conference foes.[65] Then on February 8, Turner established a new Big Ten Conference record with his eighth career Conference Player of the Week award, surpassing Glenn Robinson and Jackson. The fifth of the season also tied Robinson's single season record.[66] Two weeks after tying the single-season record, he broke the record when he averaged 24.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists against two ranked conference opponents (No. 4 Purdue and at No. 11 Michigan State).[67] Then he won the award again on March 1.[68]

Turner helped led the Buckeyes to the regular season co-Championship for the Big Ten Conference and helped them earn the number one seed in the 2010 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament. On March 12, 2010, in their first game in the tournament, Turner helped the Buckeyes get a win over their arch rival Michigan Wolverines with a last second 37-foot 3 pointer.[69] In the second game, against Illinois, Turner scored 31 points, scoring the game-tying points to send the game to overtime and then the final four points in overtime to send the game into double overtime. Turner scored a total of 12 points in overtime.[70] He then led Ohio State to victory in the championship game against Minnesota with another 31 points.[71] Turner was named Tournament Most Outstanding Player and part of the All-Tournament team.[72] Turner also repeated as the Big Ten scoring champion, and although he lost the rebounding championship to Mike Davis (9.167 to 9.161), he led the conference in defensive rebounds. He also ranked second in assists and third in steals.[73] He improved upon his sophomore showing by becoming the first player to finish in the top two in average points (1st, 20.4), rebounds (2nd, 9.2) and assists (2nd, 6.0), becoming the first men's basketball player to do so and the first to finish in the top five in all three categories.[73][74]

Awards

Turner was selected as a Midseason Top-30 finalists for the 2010 John Wooden Award in January.[75] He was included on the March 15, 26-man final national ballot for the Wooden Award.[76][77] From that ballot he was selected to the ten-man Wooden All-American team.[78] Then the list was shortened to five finalists (Turner, Sherron Collins, John Wall, Wesley Johnson and Da'Sean Butler) who were flown out to Los Angeles for the announcement.[79] On April 9, Turner was announced as the winner.[80] In February, he was named a midseason Top 30 candidate for the Naismith College Player of the Year and was announced the recipient of the award in Indianapolis April 5, 2010.[81][82][83] Turner won the USBWA's Robertson Trophy as the consensus choice by voters in all nine geographical districts.[84] Fox, Associated Press and Sporting News selected him as their National Player of the Year.[85][86] He earned 54 of the 65 Associated Press panel members' votes.[87] He was recognized the National Association of Basketball Coaches' Division I Player of the Year.[88]

By winning the Wooden, Naismith, Robertson, Fox Sports, NABC, TSN, and AP Player of the Year awards, he nearly swept all of the major player of the year awards. Wall won the Adolph Rupp Trophy (and Yahoo! Sports player of the year). Turner was again the only person chosen as a unanimous first-team All Big Ten selection by both the coaches and the media at the end of the regular season and was selected as the 2010 Big Ten Men's Basketball Player of the Year.[89][90] Turner was also selected as the Big Ten Conference male Athlete of the Year for all sports.[91]

Turner was selected as a first team 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American by Associated Press, Sporting News, Fox Sports, National Association of Basketball Coaches, United States Basketball Writers Association and Yahoo! Sports.[85][92][93][94][95] He was also selected in March as one of six finalists for the Bob Cousy Award.[96]

NBA career

Philadelphia 76ers (2010–present)

On April 7, 2010, Turner held a press conference and announced that he would forgo his final season of collegiate eligibility and enter the 2010 NBA Draft, where he was expected to be selected as one of the top 3 draft picks.[97] Turner signed with Michael Jordan's agent, David Falk.[98]

He was selected with the 2nd overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2010 NBA Draft,[99] and signed a 3-year deal worth an estimated $12 million.[100]

On October 27, 2010, in his debut on the Philadelphia 76ers (also his 22nd birthday), Turner recorded 16 points, 7 rebounds, and 4 assists, coming off the bench for 30 minutes to lead the team in scoring in a 97–87 loss to the Miami Heat.[101] On November 7, 2010, Turner got his first NBA start and ended the game with a double-double, recording 14 points and 10 rebounds to go with his 3 assists, in a 106–96 win over the New York Knicks in place of the injured Andre Iguodala.[102] On December 29, 2010, Turner scored a career-high 23 points in a 123–110 win against the Phoenix Suns, going 9–12 from the field and a perfect 4–4 from the free throw line.[103]

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
2010–11 Philadelphia 78 14 23.0 .425 .318 .808 3.9 2.0 .6 .2 7.2
Career 78 14 23.0 .425 .318 .808 3.9 2.0 .6 .2 7.2

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2010–11 Philadelphia 5 0 19.4 .447 .800 1.000 4.6 .8 .6 .2 8.0
Career 5 0 19.4 .447 .800 1.000 4.6 .8 .6 .2 8.0

Endorsements

On August 23, 2010, CNBC reported that Turner had signed a multi-year endorsement contract with Chinese apparel maker Li Ning Company Limited.[104]

Family

Turner's mother is Iris James, and he has two older brothers named Darius and Richard.[10]

See also

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