Johnathan Hildred Wall Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. Wall was chosen with the first overall pick of the 2010 NBA draft by the Washington Wizards after playing one year of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. He is a five-time NBA All-Star and was named to the All-NBA Team in 2017. He was inducted into the University of Kentucky Athletics Hall of Fame on September 22, 2017.
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Johnathan Hildred Wall Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. Wall was chosen with the first overall pick of the 2010 NBA draft by the Washington Wizards after playing one year of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. Wall plays the point guard position and is a five-time NBA All-Star and was named to the All-NBA Team in 2017. He was inducted into the University of Kentucky Athletics Hall of Fame on September 22, 2017. Wall is the son of Frances Pulley and John Carroll Wall Sr. His father served time in prison for second-degree murder, but died of liver cancer a month later at the age of 52. His mother worked multiple jobs to support him and his sister, Cierra, along with his half-sister, Tonya. The death of his father caused Wall to frequently reject the authority of adults and led him down a path of acting up that entailed occasional fighting, mostly in middle school. As a fifth-year senior in 2009, Wall averaged 19. 7 points, 9 assists, and over 8 rebounds for Word of God Christian Academy and was ranked one of the best high school basketball players in the class of that year. He led the Holy Rams basketball team all the way to the North Carolina Class 1A state championship; they were ultimately defeated by United Faith Christian Academy 56–53, but not before that school’s Ian Miller hit a 40 foot game-clinching jump shot at the buzzer.
Wall scored 9 points, failing to break double digits for the first time in his college career in his first half of the first half against Hartford. On December 29, 2009, he set the Kentucky single-game assist record with 16, with 1 turnover, with a first half turnover, and 11 in the second half. Because he would turn 19 by the end of his high school year, Wall would end the year as the only high school senior in the school’s history to turn 19 years old. He would then turn 19 in the first year of high school and turn the corner by turning the corner on the high school career with a double-digit point-scoring season in his final year of school. Wall played for two AAU basketball teams, first Garner Road and then D-One Sports. In 2008, Wall played in the Elite 24 Hoops Classic, at which he scored 10 points and won co-MVP honors alongside Dominic Cheek, Maalik Wayns, and Lance Stephenson. In his first action as a Wildcat, in an exhibition game against Clarion University of Pennsylvania, the freshman point guard led his team to victory with 27 points and 9 assists in 28 minutes of playing time. He then made the game-winning shot with 5 seconds left on the clock to help Kentucky win versus Miami University, and finished with 19 points, 2 rebounds, 5, 5 steals, and 3 steals in his collegiate debut at Kentucky. He is now ranked #5 on the NBA’s all-time scoring list.
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