Changes: Ben Gordon

**Ben Gordon**
	; Gordon during a Bobcats game in 2013
Texas Legends
Position	Shooting guard
League	NBA D-League
Personal information
Born	Benjamin Ashenafi Gordon; April 4, 1983 (age 41) ; London, England
Nationality	British ; American
Listed height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight	200 lbs (91 kg)
Career information
High school	Mount Vernon ; (Mount Vernon, New York)
College	Connecticut (2001-2004)
NBA Draft	2004 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3rd
	Selected by the Chicago Bulls
Playing career	2004-present (20 years)
Career history
2004-2009	Chicago Bulls
2009-2012	Detroit Pistons
2012-2014	Charlotte Bobcats
Career highlights and awards
	NBA Sixth Man of the Year (2005); NBA All-Rookie First Team (2005); NCAA champion (2004);
NBA.com profile	profile

Revision as of 19:26, 14 February 2020

Benjamin Gordon is a British-American professional basketball player currently playing for the Texas Legends of the NBA D-League

Player Profile

Gordon is a 6'3" 200lbs Shooting guard. His game has slowly been declining as he gets older, and his overall lack of stamina gives him a weak point.

Stats

Legend
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

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2004	Chicago	82	3	24.4	.411	.405	.863	2.6	2.0	.6	.1	15.1
2005	Chicago	80	47	31.0	.422	.435	.787	2.7	3.0	.9	.1	16.9
2006	Chicago	82	51	33.0	.455	.413	.864	3.1	3.6	.8	.2	21.4
2007	Chicago	72	27	31.8	.434	.410	.908	3.1	3.0	.8	.1	18.6
2008	Chicago	82	76	36.6	.455	.410	.864	3.5	3.4	.9	.3	20.7
2009	Detroit	62	17	27.9	.416	.321	.861	1.9	2.7	.8	.1	13.8
2010	Detroit	82	27	26.0	.440	.402	.850	2.4	2.1	.6	.2	11.2
2011	Detroit	52	21	26.9	.442	.429	.860	2.3	2.4	.7	.2	12.5
2012	Charlotte	75	0	20.8	.408	.387	.843	1.7	1.9	.5	.2	11.2
Career		669	269	28.8	.433	.404	.858	2.6	2.7	.7	.2	15.9

Playoffs

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2005	Chicago	6	1	25.5	.405	.318	.800	2.7	2.5	.8	.3	14.5
2006	Chicago	6	6	40.8	.406	.366	.676	3.3	3.0	1.0	.0	21.0
2007	Chicago	10	10	39.5	.415	.436	.921	3.8	3.8	.9	.1	20.4
2009	Chicago	7	7	43.4	.388	.370	.875	2.9	3.0	.4	.1	24.3
Career		29	24	37.9	.403	.384	.840	3.2	3.1	.8	.1	20.2

Referneces

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-'''Benjamin "Ben" Gordon''' (born April 4, 1983) is a British-American professional [[professional basketball]] [[Shooting guard]] who is currently a [[free agent]].
+'''Benjamin Gordon''' is a British-American [[professional basketball]] player currently playing for the [[Texas Legends]] of the [[NBA D-League]]
-==Early Life==
-Ben was born in London, England to Jamaican parents. He moved to America shortly after his birth, and grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. Gordon played high school basketball for the Mount Vernon Knights, and helped lead the team to the 2000 New York State Public and Federation Championships. Gordon was an All-State player at Mount Vernon and a top 40 national recruit. He was heavily recruited by [[Seton Hall]], but fell into [[UConn]].
-==College==
-As a freshman, Gordon ranked second on the team in scoring (12.6 ppg), despite coming off the bench for most of the season. He hit the game winning 3-point field goal against [[Villanova]] in the Big East Tournament. As a sophomore, Gordon averaged a team-leading 19.5 points (which ranked 50th in the nation) and also led the Huskies with 156 total assists, which earned Gordon Second Team All-Big East honors.
-In Gordon's junior and final year at Connecticut, he averaged a team-leading 20.5 points (again ranked 50th in the nation), 4.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists. He also connected on 104 three-pointers, the second-highest single season total in Connecticut's history. Gordon set a Big East Tournament record with 81 total points, earning the tournaments' Most Outstanding Performer honors. Gordon also earned the Most Outstanding Player award of the Phoenix Regional honors in the NCAA Tournament. He also led the tournament field with 127 total points, as he helped lead the Huskies to the NCAA Championship.
-==NBA Career==
-Following his junior year, Gordon declared himself eligible for the [[2004 NBA Draft]] and was selected third overall by the [[Chicago Bulls, one pick after the Charlotte Bobcats drafted his teammate, [[Emeka Okafor]].
-Before the Draft, Gordon thought that he would be drafted anywhere from 7th to 12th, but as the draft got closer he claimed to have an inkling that the Bulls might draft him third as they did with [[Michael Jordan]] 20 years earlier in the [[1984 NBA Draft]]. "I'm a guy who looks at the significance of numbers a lot. Before the draft, I had no idea I'd get drafted third. I thought I was going to go anywhere from 7th to 12th. As we started getting closer and I started to get an inkling that the Bulls could be a team that I could end up playing for, I started to look at the numbers. Michael Jordan was drafted by the Bulls and he was the third pick just like you." Gordon wore the number 4 on his jersey in high school and college, but had to wear the number 7 with the Bulls due to the number 4 being retired. Gordon said, "I wore No. 4 my whole career but, of course, [[Jerry Sloan]] already had that number beforehand so there wasn't much I could do about it. So all I did was just [put together] being the third pick with my old No. 4. That's why I wear No. 7."
-===Chicago Bulls===
-In his [[2004–05 NBA season|rookie year]], Gordon averaged 15.1 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game while playing 24.2 minutes per game. Gordon also finished with 21 double-digit fourth quarter point performances, second to only [[LeBron James]]'s 22 in the NBA. Gordon helped lead the Bulls to their first playoff appearance since the Jordan era ended in 1998. After the season, Gordon became the first rookie in NBA history to be awarded the [[NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award]]. Gordon was also the NBA's Eastern Conference Rookie of The Month 3 times (January, February, and March), and was also voted onto the NBA All-Rookie First Team.
-However, Gordon also had problems with turnovers (4.46 per 48 minutes; 6th in the league in 04–05) and an overall lack of stamina in his rookie season. He remarked, "More than anything, I just want to come back [in the fall] in better shape". "A lot of this game is about conditioning and how long you can give your best performance." In his sophomore campaign (2005–06), Gordon alternated between the starting lineup and bench for the Bulls, starting 47 games (mostly in the later half of the season) while coming off of the bench for 35. The minutes Gordon played per game rose, as did his scoring and assist averages. Gordon was selected to play for the Sophomores in the Rookie Challenge held during the NBA All-Star Weekend, in which he scored 17 points.
-On April 14, 2006, in a Bulls win over the [[Washington Wizards]], Gordon tied the record for the most consecutive three-pointers made in a game with 9. In 2006, Gordon also revealed that he was in the process of designing an energy drink called BG7, an allusion to his initials and jersey number. Gordon unveiled the drink at One Sixty Blue, a restaurant co-owned by Michael Jordan. The drink was made with white tea, which has a very high amount of antioxidants, and the most polyphenols of any tea.
-On March 4, 2007, Gordon established a career high 48 points, leading a miraculous comeback effort to win 126–121 in overtime against the [[Milwaukee Bucks]]. In 2008, Gordon accepted the Bulls' one-year qualifying offer of $6.4 million after being unable to secure the contract that he was hoping for. On December 27, 2008, Gordon passed [[Scottie Pippen]] as the Chicago Bulls' career leader in three-pointers made. He became an unrestricted free agent after the 2008–09 season.
-===Detroit Pistons===
-Gordon signed a five-year $55 million deal with the [[Detroit Pistons]] starting with the 2009–10 season. With the Pistons, Gordon continued his role as a sixth-man off the bench. On January 9, 2010, Gordon scored the 10-millionth point in NBA history. On March 21, 2012, Gordon scored 45 points, making 9 out of 9 3-point field goal attempts, which tied an NBA record.
-==Charlotte Bobcats==
-On June 26, 2012, Gordon and a future first round pick were traded to the [[Charlotte Bobcats]] in a deal that sent [[Corey Maggette]] to the Pistons.
-On November 28, 2012, Gordon scored 20 points in the fourth quarter of an eventual 91-94 loss to the Atlanta Hawks. The 20 points were the most in one quarter for any player in Bobcats history. He finished with 26 points on 7 of 11 shooting, making 7 of 10 from beyond the arc, to go with 5 free throw attempts and makes.
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 *[[Ben Gordon/Photo Gallery|Photo Gallery]] - Photos featuring {{PAGENAME}}
-*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Gordon]
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