Taurean Prince

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Basketball player
Taurean Prince
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Player information
Full name Taurean Waller-Prince
birthday 22nd March 1994 (age 26)
place of birth San Marcos , Texas , United States
size 203 cm
position Small forward
college Baylor
NBA draft 2016 , 12th Pick Utah Jazz
Club information
society Brooklyn Nets
league NBA
Jersey number 2
Clubs as active
2012–2016 Baylor Bears ( NCAA ) 2016–2019 Atlanta Hawks Since 2019 Brooklyn NetsUnited StatesUnited States
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National team 1
Since 02015United StatesUnited States United States
1 As of November 11, 2016
Taurean Prince medal table

Basketball (men)

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Pan American Games
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Taurean Waller-Prince (born March 22, 1994 in San Marcos , Texas ) is an American basketball player who is currently under contract with the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA .

After completing his studies in 2016, Prince was originally selected by Utah Jazz in twelfth position in the entry draft of the NBA's highest endowed professional league . After swapping players, he began his professional career with the Atlanta Hawks .

Career

After a difficult childhood, in which Prince had to spend some time with foster parents after his father's delinquency , he graduated from Earl Warren High School in San Antonio with his mother and had a scholarship from Long Island University in Brooklyn on the east coast. After the coach of the university team changed before the start of studies, he instead accepted a scholarship from Baylor University in the comparatively nearby Waco , where he played for their university team Bears for four years in the NCAA's Big 12 Conference from 2012 . In his first season as a freshman , the Bears won the 2013 National Invitation Tournament, the second most important postseason tournament of the NCAA. A year later, the Bears were back in the most important postseason tournament, the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship , in which they failed in 2014 in the Sweet Sixteen at the eventual Final Four participant Wisconsin Badgers . In the following two years, the Bears lost their first game in the finals. After Prince had already been selected for the “All-Big 12 Second Team” of the ten best players in his conference in 2015, he received the award for the “All-Big 12 First Team” of the five best players of a season in his senior year .

In 2015, Prince was named to the United States' selection for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. For the first time, the national team consisted of a mixed selection of professionals from abroad, including Bobby Brown and Keith Langford , as well as college players from the NCAA such as Denzel Valentine , Malcolm Brogdon and Prince, but without professional players from the NBA. After a preliminary round defeat against eventual title winners Brazil , the team narrowly lost the semifinals against hosts Canada , before they could secure the bronze medal against the Dominican Republic in the "small final" .

A year later in 2016, Prince was selected in twelfth position by Utah Jazz after completing his studies in the NBA Draft , ahead of Valentine and Brogdon . But Prince traded Jazz for George Hill in a transfer that Jeff Teague sent to the Indiana Pacers . Prince began his first professional season with the Hawks in Atlanta.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jessica Camerato: NBA draft: Taurean Prince's journey from homeless to 1st-round prospect. Comcast Sports Net, June 20, 2016, accessed July 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Chuck Carlton: How late bloomer Taurean Prince went from Brooklyn-bound to starring for Baylor. SportsDay Dallas, March 16, 2016, accessed July 7, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Four Baylor MBB Players Named All-Big 12. Baylor University , March 6, 2016, accessed on July 7, 2016 (English, media info).
  4. ↑ Seventeenth Pan American Games - 2015. USA Basketball , July 30, 2015, accessed July 7, 2016 (English, tournament history and roster).
  5. ↑ Hawks Acquire Draft Rights To Taurean Prince. National Basketball Association , July 7, 2016, accessed July 7, 2016 (Atlanta Hawks media info).
personal data
SURNAME Prince, Taurean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waller-Prince, Taurean (name on his jersey)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH San Marcos, Texas