Jamaal Magloire

Jamaal Magloire

New Jersey Nets
Position	Center
League	NBA
Personal information
Born	(1978-05-21) May 21, 1978 Toronto, Ontario
Nationality	Canada
Listed height	6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)
Listed weight	259 lb (117 kg)
Career information
High school	Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute
College	Kentucky
NBA draft	2000: 19th overall
Selected by the Charlotte Hornets
Playing career	2000–present
Career highlights and awards
1-time All-Star (2004)
Stats  at NBA.com
Stats  at Basketball-Reference.com

Jamaal Dane Magloire (born May 21 1978 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional basketball player, currently with the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association. He attended Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute.

College career

A 6'11", 259-pound (2.11 m, 117.5 kg) center, Magloire started 12 games as a sophomore for the Kentucky Wildcats team that won the national championship in 1998. He finished his college career as Kentucky's all-time leader in blocked shots, with 268.

NBA career

He was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets with the 19th pick of the 2000 NBA Draft, but filled a reserve role for his first two seasons in which he averaged 6.5 points in 16.8 minutes per game. But in 2002-03, the Hornets' first year in New Orleans, he started all 82 games, averaging 10.3 points and 8.8 rebounds per game.

2003-04 was the season in which Magloire really began to get some respect from coaches and peers around the NBA. He averaged 13.6 points and 10.3 rebounds per game while starting all 82 games, and was even named to the Eastern Conference All-Star Team. Magloire being named an All-Star was perhaps a controversial decision at the time, with many pundits and sportswriters asking, "Who the heck is Jamaal Magloire?" But he more than held his own against the best the NBA had to offer, contributing 19 points and 8 rebounds in his 21 minutes of action.

Milwaukee

On October 26 2005, he was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for Desmond Mason, a 2006 first-round draft pick and cash considerations.

Portland

On July 31, 2006, during the off-season, Magloire was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for Steve Blake, Ha Seung-Jin, and Brian Skinner.

Although Magloire has averaged nearly 10 points per game throughout his entire NBA career, he did not score over nine points in a single game during his first 20 games as a Trail Blazer. In fact, only eight times did Magloire record over 11 points during 81 regular season games in 2006-07. Magloire finished the season with an average of only 21 minutes played per game, down from 30 minutes played in the previous two seasons. Magloire became a free agent on July 1, 2007.

New Jersey

Magloire recently signed to the New Jersey Nets for a 1 year deal.

Personal

In the early morning hours of June 23, 2001, Magloire's half-brother, 19-year old Justin Sheppard, was shot and killed on the footbridge that spans the ravine around Rosedale Valley Road between Bloor Street East and Glen Road near Sherbourne station in Toronto. Like Magloire, Sheppard was a promising basketball talent at Eastern Commerce, and was supposed to begin a scholarship at a Maryland prep school that fall. Magloire helped post a $50,000 CAD reward, but to date, there have been no arrests.

Trivia

• He is of Trinidadian descent.
• On May 17, 2006, he was given a star on the Scarborough Walk of Fame in Scarborough Town Centre mall, becoming one of its first inductees.
• His favorite movie is The Ten Commandments.
• Enjoys West Indian food.
• Majored in business at Kentucky.

Notes

Jamaal's life was chronicled in "Jamaal Magloire: A Biography", a book written by Toronto lawyer David Goldstein

External links

• NBA.com Profile - Jamaal Magloire

www.jamaalmagloireabiography.com