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}} Jahlil Okafor (pronounced ; born December 15, 1995) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played his freshman season of college for the 2014–15 national championship team. He entered Duke with widespread recognition as the preseason Collegiate National Player of the Year. He played high school basketball in Chicago, Illinois for Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, where he earned high school national player of the year awards from McDonalds, ''USA Today'' and ''Parade''. He signed with Duke as a package with Tyus Jones. He was heavily recruited since before high school and had been at the top of the recruiting rankings for several years. He is a distant cousin of Emeka Okafor. At the 2012 FIBA Under-17 World Championship, he earned the Tournament MVP for the gold-medal winning USA team. In 2013, Okafor led Whitney Young to the 2013 Chicago Public High School League (CPL) city championship. He was an All-American as a junior in 2013. The following summer, he was an All-Tournament team selection at the 2013 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for the gold-medal Team USA. Following his senior season, he earned broad All-American recognition and was named national player of the year by ''Parade'', ''USA Today'' and McDonald's among other players. At Duke, he earned the USBWA National Freshman of the Year and ACC Player of the Year. He was also a unanimous 2015 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American first-team selection. In the week following Duke's victory in the championship game of the 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament against Wisconsin, Okafor announced that he would enter the 2015 NBA draft. He was selected with the 3rd overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers. ==Early career== Okafor's father, Chukwudi, known as Chuck, is of Nigerian Igbo and African-American descent, and his mother, Dacresha Lanett Benton, is African-American and White.〔 As a youth, Okafor split time between his mother's home in the 127-resident town of Moffett, Oklahoma and his father's home in Chicago. When he was 9 years old, his mother contracted bronchitis and died two weeks later from a collapsed lung. Okafor permanently moved in with his father to the South Side of Chicago and then to Rosemont. Okafor attended Rosemont Elementary.〔 The adjustment was difficult because he was shy and so tall that other students thought he was put in the class for having failed.〔 In November 2008, during seventh grade he matched his father's height of .〔 Later the family moved to Chicago's North Side so that Okafor could attend Whitney Young.〔 As a eighth-grader, Okafor was recruited by DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball in violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recruiting rules when DePaul Athletic Director Jean Lenti Ponsetto made public comments about an offer. Initially, interim coach Tracy Webster, made an oral offer on January 30 outside the DePaul locker room at Allstate Arena.〔 The offer was noted online by ESPNChicago.com and picked up by the press, leading to the problematic statements by Ponsetto.〔 In February 2010, Ponsetto confirmed a statement: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jahlil Okafor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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