Emeka Okafor
Okafor during his tenure with the Washington Wizards | |||||||||||||||
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Born | Houston, Texas | September 28, 1982||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 252 lb (114 kg) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
High school | Bellaire (Bellaire, Texas) | ||||||||||||||
College | UConn (2001–2004) | ||||||||||||||
NBA draft | 2004 / Round: 1 / Pick: 2nd overall | ||||||||||||||
Selected by the Charlotte Bobcats | |||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2004–2018 | ||||||||||||||
Position | Center / Power forward | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
2004–2009 | Charlotte Bobcats | ||||||||||||||
2009–2012 | New Orleans Hornets | ||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Washington Wizards | ||||||||||||||
2017–2018 | Delaware 87ers | ||||||||||||||
2018 | New Orleans Pelicans | ||||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
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Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |||||||||||||||
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Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi "Emeka" Okafor (born September 28, 1982) is an American professional basketball player. Okafor attended Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas and the University of Connecticut, where in 2004 he won a national championship. Okafor played for the University of Connecticut from 2001 to 2004 where he was teammates with Charlie Villanueva, Marcus Williams, Ben Gordon, Hilton Armstrong and Josh Boone, who all went on to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He majored in finance during his time at Connecticut, and he graduated with honors after three years in May 2004 with a 3.8 GPA. Okafor was named the Academic All-American of the Year in 2004 for his work on and off the court. On February 5, 2007, he was inducted to the Husky Ring Of Honor at Gampel Pavilion on the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs during halftime of the men's basketball game against the Syracuse Orange as part of a ceremony which recognized personal accomplishments of 13 former players and 3 coaches.
- 1982 births
- African-American basketball players
- New Orleans Hornets players
- New Orleans Pelicans players
- Philadelphia 76ers players
- Washington Wizards players
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Charlotte Bobcats players
- Sportspeople from Houston
- Living people
- American basketball players