Trajan Langdon
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| Position | Shooting guard |
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| Height | 6 ft 3.75 in (1.92 m) |
| Weight | 205 lb (93 kg) |
| Born | May 13, 1976 Palo Alto, California |
| Nationality | American |
| College | Duke |
| Draft | 11th overall, 1999 Cleveland Cavaliers |
| Pro career | 1999–2011 |
| Career history | Cleveland Cavaliers (1999-02) Benetton Treviso (Italy) (2002-03) Efes Pilsen (Turkey) (2003-04) Dynamo Moscow (Russia) (2004-05) CSKA Moscow (2005-11) |
| Awards | Euroleague Final Four MVP 2008 2x All-Euroleague First Team 2007, 2008 All-Euroleague Second Team 2006 Euroleague 2001-10 All-Decade Team |
Trajan Shaka Langdon (born May 13, 1976) is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6 ft 3 3⁄4 in (1.92 m)[1][2] 210 lb. (95 kg)[3] shooting guard, he gained fame in the U.S. while playing college basketball at Duke University with the Duke Blue Devils.
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[edit] Biography
Trajan is the son of Dr. Steve Langdon, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Anchorage.[4] Trajan has traveled with his father on many anthropological trips within southeastern Alaska. His father studied the Tlingit of Alaska.
[edit] Amateur career
Born in Palo Alto, California, Langdon moved to Anchorage, Alaska soon after. During his high school career, Langdon attended Steller Secondary School and played for East Anchorage High School. He set the Alaska 4A Record of 2,200 career points and was a 3-Time Alaskan Player of the Year.
He led East Anchorage to the 1994 Alaskan State Championship and he played in the prestigious McDonald's All American Game, where he won the 3-point shooting contest. He was also the recipient of the Dial Award, given to the nation's top male and female student-athlete. Langdon's win marked the second consecutive year a basketball player was so honored, as Jacque Vaughn had won the previous year.[5]
After high school, Langdon moved on to play for the highly regarded Duke University basketball team, where he set the school record for most career 3-point field goals made (which was later broken by J.J Redick in 2006) earning him the nickname "The Alaskan Assassin".[6] After his Freshman year at Duke he twice appeared on the popular Anchorage, AK TV sports talk show, Sports Talk Alaska. Langdon was the only guest to ever appear on the show twice.
[edit] Professional career
Langdon was selected by the San Diego Padres in the 6th round of the 1994 Major League Baseball draft,[5] and was also drafted by the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1999 NBA Draft. Langdon made his professional debut with the Cavaliers on November 2, 1999, when he became the first Alaskan to play in the NBA. Following a three-year career with the Cavaliers, Langdon moved to Europe to play for the Italian League club Benetton Treviso for the 2002-03 season.
The following season, he moved to the Turkish League powerhouse Efes Pilsen. For the 2004-05 season, he moved on to the Russian League club Dynamo Moscow, before moving across town to CSKA Moscow for the 2005-06 season. Langdon was named to the All-Euroleague Second Team for the Euroleague 2005-06 season. CSKA Moscow won the Euroleague Championship that same season.
The following season, he helped CSKA Moscow return to the Euroleague championship game, where they lost to Greek power Panathinaikos on the Greek team's home court.[7] In the process, he was named to the All-Euroleague First Team for the Euroleague 2006-07 season, a feat that he repeated in the Euroleague 2007-08 season. On May 4, 2008, he was named the Euroleague Final Four MVP, after again winning the Euroleague title with CSKA Moscow.[8]
On October 7, 2006, Langdon led his CSKA Moscow team to a 94-75 win over the Los Angeles Clippers in an exhibition game. Coincidentally, he played against his former Duke University teammate Elton Brand, who was playing for the Clippers at that time. He led all scorers in the game with 17 points.[9]
In June 2011 he announced his retirement from basketball. He made his announcement two days after helping CSKA to its ninth consecutive Russian League crown.[10]
[edit] United States national team
| Medal record | ||
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| Men’s basketball | ||
Competitor for  United States |
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| FIBA World Championship | ||
| Bronze | 1998 Greece | National team |
| FIBA Americas U18 Championship | ||
| Gold | 1994 Santa Rosa | National team |
After graduating from Duke with degrees in mathematics and history, Langdon played for the USA national basketball team in the 1998 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.[11]
[edit] NBA career statistics
| Legend | |||||
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| 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 |
[edit] Regular season
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 1999–00 | Cleveland | 10 | 0 | 14.5 | .375 | .421 | 1.000 | 1.5 | 1.1 | .5 | .0 | 4.9 |
| 2000–01 | Cleveland | 65 | 5 | 17.2 | .431 | .411 | .895 | 1.4 | 1.2 | .6 | .1 | 6.0 |
| 2001–02 | Cleveland | 44 | 0 | 10.8 | .398 | .365 | .913 | 1.3 | 1.4 | .3 | .1 | 4.8 |
| Career | 119 | 5 | 14.6 | .416 | .396 | .910 | 1.3 | 1.3 | .5 | .1 | 5.4 |
[edit] References
- ^ CSKA Moscow official website player profile. 6 ft 3 3⁄4 in (1.92 m)
- ^ Euroleague.net official player profile. 6 ft 3 3⁄4 in (1.92 m)
- ^ Italian League profile.
- ^ Lieber, Jill (March 26, 1999). "Following his father's vision, Alaska's Trajan Langdon made it to Duke by . . .". USA Today. http://enquirer.com/editions/1999/03/26/spt_following_his.html. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
- ^ a b EUROBASKET - Euroleague Men basketball.
- ^ Trajan Langdon.
- ^ The Euroleague determines the site for each year's Final Four shortly before the previous year's Final Four, before it can possibly be known who will advance. The 2008 event was held in Madrid.
- ^ Euroleague feature: King of the Final Four on YouTube
- ^ ESPN - Langdon leads CSKA Moscow past Clippers - NBA.
- ^ CSKA icon Langdon announces retirement
- ^ 1998 USA Basketball.
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Trajan Langdon |
- NBA.com Profile - Trajan Langdon
- Trajan Langdon at Basketball-Reference.com
- Euroleague.net Profile - Trajan Langdon
- Russian League Profile
- Trajan Langdon Named Finals MVP
- TBLStat.net Profile - Trajan Langdon
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- African American basketball players
- American basketball players
- American expatriate basketball people in Italy
- American expatriate basketball people in Russia
- American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
- Basketball players from Alaska
- Pallacanestro Treviso players
- Cleveland Cavaliers draft picks
- Cleveland Cavaliers players
- PBC CSKA Moscow players
- Duke Blue Devils men's basketball players
- BC Dynamo Moscow players
- Anadolu Efes SK players
- McDonald's High School All-Americans
- Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
- People from Anchorage, Alaska
- Shooting guards
- United States men's national basketball team members
