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Phillip Michael "Phil" Pressey (born February 17, 1991) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). His prior professional teams were the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association and the Maine Red Claws of the NBADL. As a junior playing point guard for the 2012–13 Missouri Tigers men's basketball team, Pressey announced on April 10, 2013, that he would forgo his senior season of eligibility at Missouri and enter the 2013 NBA draft instead. He led the 2011-12 Big 12 Conference in assists, steals and assist-to-turnover ratio and was a 2011–12 All-Big 12 team selection as a result. He shares the Southeastern Conference (SEC) single-game assists record (19) and was the 2012 SEC Preseason Player of the Year. He earned 2012–13 All-SEC First team selection and was the conference assist champion. He earned Associated Press 2013 All-American honorable mention recognition. He holds Missouri single-game, single-season and career assists records and numerous Missouri steals records, including career steals. Pressey was a high school basketball All-state selection by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (TABC) and helped his team achieve 2009 and 2010 Southwest Preparatory Conference (SPC) state championships in basketball. In high school, several YouTube videos of him dunking (often over much taller players) became popular. He is the son of 1982 NBA Draft first-round selection and 1982 Consensus All-American Paul Pressey. ==Early years== In June 2006, Pressey stood at . That year, he led the Boston Amateur Basketball Club (BABC), also known as the Boston Amateur Athletic Club, to the 2006 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) National Championship. He had joined the team as a seventh grader in 2005.〔 He played his freshman and sophomore high school basketball seasons for Cushing Academy.〔 As the family moved for Paul's jobs with various NBA franchises, Pressey spent summers with BABC teammate (and future Missouri teammate) Alex Oriakhi. In 2008, Pressey's family moved to Dallas when Paul took a job with the New Orleans Hornets, and Phil began to play with Episcopal School of Dallas for his junior season.〔 During his two years at Episcopal, the team won its second and third consecutive SPC Division I boy's state championship in 2009 and 2010. He was one of the two best point guards at the July 2009 LeBron James Skills Academy, according to reports in ''The Plain Dealer''. Pressey made his verbal commitment to Missouri on September 13, 2009. Pressey's father, Paul, had been teammates with Missouri head coach Mike Anderson. Anderson had known Pressey since he was an infant and remained close to the family as "Uncle Mike". On April 12, 2010, Pressey's older brother Matt, who was a junior college transfer, gave his verbal commitment to join his brother in Missouri's 2010 entering class. On April 15, Oregon attempted to lure Anderson, but after meeting with Oregon's athletic director, Anderson decided to stay at Missouri. As a senior Pressey earned TABC All-state recognition and ''Dallas Morning News'' first team All-area recognition. The All-area team included Perry Jones, Le'Bryan Nash, Marcus Smart and Kyan Anderson. During the 2010 SPC championship game, Pressey tallied 32 points, 9 assists, 8 rebounds and 3 steals against Greenhill School.〔 Videos of him dunking in high school have made him a YouTube sensation.〔 During the 2010 TABC All-star game, he dunked over Tony Mitchell, who at the time was a player approximately a foot taller than Pressey. , this video has about 800,000 views. Because of his diminutive stature, he is often compared to another undersized Dallas basketball player, Spud Webb. 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「Phil Pressey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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