Jaxson Hayes

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Basketball player
Jaxson Hayes
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Player information
Full name Jaxson Reed Hayes
birthday 23rd May 2000 (age 20)
place of birth Norman , Oklahoma , United States
size 211 cm
Weight 100 kg
position center
college Texas
NBA draft 2019 , 8th pick, Atlanta Hawks
Club information
society New Orleans Pelicans
league NBA
Jersey number 10
Clubs as active
2019– United StatesUnited States New Orleans Pelicans

Jaxson Reed Hayes (born November 16, 1999 in Norman , Oklahoma ) is an American basketball player .

career

Hayes was born in Oklahoma, USA, when he was three years old and moved with his family to Cincinnati  , Ohio . His father, Jonathan, was an American football professional and played for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL) in the 1980s and 1990s . From 2003 to 2018 he was a trainer on the staff of the Cincinnati Bengals  . Mother Kristi was a basketball player at Drake University in the first half of the 1990s and then a college-level coach.

As a student, Hayes was a member of the basketball team at the Cincinnati-based Archbishop Moeller High School. In September 2017, he announced his decision to play and study at the University of Texas from the 2018/19 season . The inside player, considered a late developer, was in the starting line-up 21 times in 32 appearances for the Texans and was the third-best scorer of his team with ten points per encounter. He also collected an average of five rebounds and blocked 2.2 opposing throws. The latter was the team maximum.

In April 2019 he signed up for the NBA draft process  , ending his university career after a year to play as a professional from now on. The Atlanta Hawks picked him eighth.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jaxson Hayes - Men's Basketball. In: texassports.com. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Eric Gay: Andy Dalton tried to get him to TCU. Instead, Jaxson Hayes went to UT and became a star. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ LetsGoBigMoe: 2017 Moeller Basketball - Jaxson Hayes Commits to Texas. September 29, 2017. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  4. ^ Jaxson Hayes | NBADraft.net. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 2018-19 Texas Basketball; Texas Combined Team Statistics (as of Apr 05, 2019). In: texassports.com. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Cody Daniel: Texas lottery prospect Jaxson Hayes enters 2019 NBA Draft. April 11, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ https://www.nba.com/draft/2019/board#/
personal data
SURNAME Hayes, Jaxson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hayes, Jaxson Reed (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Norman , Oklahoma , United States