Jahlil okafor biography of barack

          And we ended up winning the national title.

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        2. His love of the game is another theme, how it centered him when his mom died at age 9, then abandoned him in Philadelphia.
        3. Okafor is a flat-out stud down low.
        4. He lived up to the hype: Jahlil averaged points and rebounds per game, was named the ACC Player of the Year and was an All-America team.

          5. His love of the game is another theme, how it centered him when his mom died at age 9, then abandoned him in Philadelphia....

          Jahlil Okafor

          Nigerian-American basketball player (born 1995)

          Jahlil Obika Okafor (;[1] born December 15, 1995) is a Nigerian-American[2] professional basketball player for the Indiana Mad Ants of the NBA G League.

          He played his freshman season of college basketball for the 2014–15 Duke national championship team. He was selected with the third overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers.

          Born to an Igbo father, Chukwudi Obika Okafor, and an African-American mother, Dacresha Lanett Benton.

          Okafor had been heavily recruited before high school and was at the top of the recruiting rankings for several years.[3] 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 McDonald's, USA Today and Parade.

          Okafor signed with Duke as a package with Tyus Jones, with widespread recognition as the preseason Collegiate National Player of the Year. At Duke, he earned the USBWA National Freshman of the Year and ACC Player of the Year, an