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Position | Guard | |||||||||||
League | WNBA | |||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||
Born | May 7, 1986 | |||||||||||
Nationality | American / Liberian | |||||||||||
Listed height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |||||||||||
Listed weight | 160 lb (73 kg) | |||||||||||
Career information | ||||||||||||
High school | Malcolm X Shabazz (Newark, New Jersey) | |||||||||||
College | Rutgers (2004–2008) | |||||||||||
WNBA draft | 2008: 1st round, 5th overall pick | |||||||||||
Selected by the Houston Comets | ||||||||||||
Playing career | 2008–present | |||||||||||
Career history | ||||||||||||
2008 | Houston Comets | |||||||||||
2008–2010 | Fenerbahçe Istanbul | |||||||||||
2009–2014 | Washington Mystics | |||||||||||
2010–2011 | Istanbul University | |||||||||||
2011–2012 | Optimum Ted Kolejliler | |||||||||||
2013 | CSM Târgovişte | |||||||||||
2013–present | Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi | |||||||||||
2014–present | Atlanta Dream | |||||||||||
Stats at WNBA.com | ||||||||||||
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | ||||||||||||
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Matee Ajavon (born May 7, 1986) is a Liberian American basketball player for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). A 5'8" guard, Ajavon was chosen by the Houston Comets as the fifth overall draft pick in the 2008 WNBA Draft.
Early life
As a child, Ajavon immigrated to the United States with her family from Monrovia, Liberia.[1]
High school
Ajavon graduated from Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark, New Jersey. She led the Shabazz girls' basketball team to victory in the State of New Jersey's "Tournament of Champions" in both 2003 and 2004, the first time a school had repeated as champion. Ajavon was named a WBCA All-American. She participated in the 2004 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored nine points.[2]
College
Ajavon graduated from Rutgers University in 2008, having majored in Africana Studies. She was a key member of the 2006–2007 Scarlet Knights women's basketball team that reached the NCAA Championship game.
College statistics
Source[3]
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 |
Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2004–05 | Rutgers | 35 | 434 | 41.6 | 26.2 | 72.2 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 12.4 |
2005–06 | Rutgers | 32 | 402 | 43.3 | 34.1 | 75.0 | 2.8 | 4.5 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 12.6 |
2006–07 | Rutgers | 32 | 383 | 41.5 | 39.5 | 70.6 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 12.0 |
2007–08 | Rutgers | 33 | 403 | 39.8 | 25.2 | 78.8 | 3.6 | 5.2 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 12.2 |
Career | Rutgers | 132 | 1622 | 41.5 | 30.9 | 74.1 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 12.3 |
USA Basketball
Ajavon played for the USA team in the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The team won all five games, earning the Gold Medal for the event.[4]
Professional
Ajavon played primarily off the bench during her rookie WNBA season, but averaged 8.0 points per game. When the Houston Comets folded in 2008, Ajavon was selected second in the dispersal draft by the Washington Mystics.
During the 2008–2010 WNBA offseason, Ajavon played in the EuroLeague Women for Fenerbahçe Istanbul.[5]
In her first season with Washington, Ajavon put up remarkably similar numbers to her first WNBA campaign. Again mainly playing as a reserve, she scored 8.0 points per game. Ajavon helped the Mystics reach the playoffs, where she played well, scoring 19 points in just 34 total minutes, but Washington suffered a two-game sweep at the hands of the Indiana Fever.
WNBA career statistics
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game | RPG | Rebounds per game |
APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game | BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game |
TO | Turnovers per game | FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
Bold | Career best | ° | League leader |
Regular season
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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2008 | Houston | 34 | 2 | 17.8 | .332 | .194 | .791 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.59 | 8.0 |
2009 | Washington | 34 | 4 | 17.3 | .336 | .341 | .673 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.47 | 8.0 |
2010 | Washington | 34 | 0 | 14.6 | .346 | .184 | .773 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.53 | 5.9 |
2011 | Washington | 34 | 33 | 31.3 | .391 | .276 | .829 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 3.09 | 14.7 |
2012 | Washington | 33 | 22 | 21.6 | .299 | .301 | .827 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 1.97 | 7.9 |
Career | 5 years, 2 teams | 169 | 61 | 20.5 | .346 | .271 | .779 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 1.93 | 8.9 |
Postseason
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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2009 | Washington | 2 | 0 | 17.0 | .375 | .250 | .833 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1.00 | 9.5 |
2010 | Washington | 2 | 0 | 17.5 | .440 | .400 | .750 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1.00 | 18.0 |
Career | 2 years, 1 team | 4 | 0 | 17.3 | .415 | .308 | .773 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 1.00 | 13.8 |
Notes
- ^ http://www.frontpageafrica.com/newsmanager/anmviewer.asp?a=6400
- ^ "WBCA High School All-America Game Box Scores". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
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- ^ "Fifteenth Pan American Games – 2007". USA Basketball. November 19, 2010. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
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External links
- 1986 births
- Living people
- American expatriate basketball people in Romania
- American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
- American women's basketball players
- Atlanta Dream players
- Basketball players at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Basketball players from New Jersey
- Club Sportiv Municipal Târgoviște players
- Fenerbahçe women's basketball players
- Houston Comets players
- Liberian emigrants to the United States
- Liberian women's basketball players
- Point guards
- Rutgers Scarlet Knights women's basketball players
- Shooting guards
- Sportspeople from Monrovia
- Sportspeople from Newark, New Jersey
- Washington Mystics players
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games medalists in basketball