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Jordan Robert Farmar (born November 30, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Premier League. In high school, he was named the ''Los Angeles Times'' High-School Player of the Year in 2003–04. Playing for UCLA in college, he was the Rivals.com National Freshman of the Year in 2004–05. Farmar was selected 26th overall in the first round of the 2006 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers. He played for them from 2006 to 2010, winning two consecutive NBA championships in 2009 and 2010. He played for Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel in 2011, and for Anadolu Efes in Turkey in 2012–13, before returning to play in the NBA for the Lakers in 2013, and for the Clippers in 2014. In summer 2015 he signed a contract with his former club, Maccabi Tel Aviv. ==Early life== Farmar was born in Los Angeles. His mother is named Melinda, known as "Mindy", and his father is Damon Farmar, a former minor league baseball outfielder who was a second round pick in both the 1981 January draft and the 1982 June draft secondary phase.〔〔 His mother's father, Dr. Howard Baker, attended UCLA and worked at the UCLA Medical Center as a neurologist. Farmar has a half-sister, Shoshana Kolani. Farmar's parents divorced when he was two years old, and he went to live with his mother. She soon met and married her current husband (Farmar's stepfather), Israeli Yehuda Kolani from Tel Aviv. Farmar is Jewish, as are his mother and stepfather. He attended Hebrew school and had his bar mitzvah at Temple Judea in Tarzana, California. His father is African-American. Farmar started playing basketball at age 4.〔 He credits his step-father Yehuda Kolani for raising him to be disciplined and mentally strong. Farmar inherited his competitive drive from his father and mentor, Damon Farmar, who played football and baseball at University High and baseball in the minor leagues. The younger Farmar spent hours in his father's clubhouses, with his father's teammates, and watching his father play.〔 He said that his stepfather taught him the value of being persistent and recognizing one's obligation's, noting: "I never met a person who worked so hard."〔 Farmar's godfather is former major league baseball player Eric Davis. 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「Jordan Farmar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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