Trajan Langdon

      Trajan Langdon
      Trajan Langdon at all-star PBL game 2011 (1).JPG
      No. 21
      Shooting guard
      Personal information
      Born (1976-05-13) May 13, 1976 (age 37)
      Palo Alto, California
      Nationality American
      Listed height 6 ft 3.75 in (1.92 m)
      Listed weight 205 lb (93 kg)
      Career information
      High school East Anchorage
      (Anchorage, Alaska)
      College Duke (1994–1999)
      NBA Draft 1999 / 11th overall
      Selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers
      Pro playing career 1999–2011
      Career history
      1999–2002 Cleveland Cavaliers
      2002–2003 Benetton Treviso (Italy)
      2003–2004 Efes Pilsen (Turkey)
      2004–2005 Dynamo Moscow (Russia)
      2005–2011 CSKA Moscow (Russia)
      Career highlights and awards
      Stats at NBA.com
      Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
      Medals
      Men’s basketball
      Competitor for  United States
      FIBA World Championship
      Bronze 1998 Greece National team
      FIBA Americas U18 Championship
      Gold 1994 Santa Rosa National team

      Trajan Shaka Langdon (born May 13, 1976) is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6 ft 3 3⁄4 in (1.92 m)[1][2] 210 lb. (95 kg)[3]shooting guard, he gained fame in the U.S. while playing college basketball at Duke University with the Duke Blue Devils.

      Biography

      Trajan is the son of Dr. Steve Langdon, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Anchorage.[4] Trajan has traveled with his father on many anthropological trips within southeastern Alaska. His father studied the Tlingit of Alaska.

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      Amateur career

      Born in Palo Alto, California, Langdon moved to Anchorage, Alaska soon after. During his high school career, Langdon attended Steller Secondary School and played for East Anchorage High School. He set the Alaska 4A Record of 2,200 career points and was a 3-Time Alaskan Player of the Year.

      He led East Anchorage to the 1994 Alaskan State Championship and he played in the prestigious McDonald's All American Game, where he won the 3-point shooting contest. He was also the recipient of the Dial Award, given to the nation's top male and female student-athlete. Langdon's win marked the second consecutive year a basketball player was so honored, as Jacque Vaughn had won the previous year.[5]

      After high school, Langdon moved on to play for the highly regarded Duke University basketball team, where he set the school record for most career 3-point field goals made (which was later broken by J.J Redick in 2006) earning him the nickname "The Alaskan Assassin".[6] After his Freshman year at Duke he twice appeared on the popular Anchorage, AK TV sports talk show, Sports Talk Alaska. Langdon was the only guest to ever appear on the show twice.

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      Professional career

      Langdon was selected by the San Diego Padres in the 6th round of the 1994 Major League Baseball draft,[5] and was also drafted by the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1999 NBA Draft. Langdon made his professional debut with the Cavaliers on November 2, 1999, when he became the first Alaskan to play in the NBA. Following a three-year career with the Cavaliers, Langdon moved to Europe to play for the Italian League club Benetton Treviso for the 2002-03 season.

      The following season, he moved to the Turkish League powerhouse Efes Pilsen. For the 2004-05 season, he moved on to the Russian League club Dynamo Moscow, before moving across town to CSKA Moscow for the 2005-06 season. Langdon was named to the All-Euroleague Second Team for the Euroleague 2005-06 season. CSKA Moscow won the Euroleague Championship that same season.

      The following season, he helped CSKA Moscow return to the Euroleague championship game, where they lost to Greek power Panathinaikos on the Greek team's home court.[7] In the process, he was named to the All-Euroleague First Team for the Euroleague 2006-07 season, a feat that he repeated in the Euroleague 2007-08 season. On May 4, 2008, he was named the Euroleague Final Four MVP, after again winning the Euroleague title with CSKA Moscow.[8]

      On October 7, 2006, Langdon led his CSKA Moscow team to a 94-75 win over the Los Angeles Clippers in an exhibition game. Coincidentally, he played against his former Duke University teammate Elton Brand, who was playing for the Clippers at that time. He led all scorers in the game with 17 points.[9]

      In June 2011 he announced his retirement from basketball. He made his announcement two days after helping CSKA to its ninth consecutive Russian League crown.[10][11]

      After his playing days ended, Langdon became a scout for the San Antonio Spurs.

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      United States national team

      After graduating from Duke with degrees in mathematics and history, Langdon played for the USA national basketball team in the 1998 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.[12]

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      Career statistics

      Legend
        GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
       FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
       RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
       BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  PIR  Performance Index Rating
       Bold  Career high

      Euroleague

      Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
      2002–03 Benetton Treviso 21 19 28.6 .540 .511 .759 2.7 1.7 1.6 .1 14.8 13.4
      2003–04 Efes Pilsen 20 19 33.1 .461 .391 .864 3.0 1.6 1.5 .2 14.3 13.0
      2005–06 CSKA Moscow 24 24 31.8 .453 .390 .860 3.1 1.5 1.3 .2 12.8 11.6
      2006–07 CSKA Moscow 25 25 29.5 .475 .420 .925 4.0 1.0 1.6 .2 13.5 14.6
      2007–08 CSKA Moscow 25 25 29.1 .512 .458 .884 3.3 .9 1.2 .1 12.6 13.0
      2008–09 CSKA Moscow 21 21 28.8 .494 .432 .878 2.7 1.3 1.0 .0 10.6 11.2
      2009–10 CSKA Moscow 21 21 32.2 .505 .470 .913 3.0 1.1 1.4 .0 15.0 15.6
      2010–11 CSKA Moscow 10 9 27.5 .397 .229 .708 2.2 .5 .2 .0 8.3 4.5
      Career 167 164 30.2 .486 .427 .868 3.1 1.3 1.3 .1 13.0 12.7

      NBA

      Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
      1999–00 Cleveland 10 0 14.5 .375 .421 1.000 1.5 1.1 .5 .0 4.9
      2000–01 Cleveland 65 5 17.2 .431 .411 .895 1.4 1.2 .6 .1 6.0
      2001–02 Cleveland 44 0 10.8 .398 .365 .913 1.3 1.4 .3 .1 4.8
      Career 119 5 14.6 .416 .396 .910 1.3 1.3 .5 .1 5.4
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      References

      1. ^ CSKA Moscow official website player profile. 6 ft 3 3⁄4 in (1.92 m)
      2. ^ Euroleague.net official player profile. 6 ft 3 3⁄4 in (1.92 m)
      3. ^ Italian League profile.
      4. ^ Lieber, Jill (March 26, 1999). "Following his father's vision, Alaska's Trajan Langdon made it to Duke by . . .". USA Today. Retrieved May 26, 2011. 
      5. ^ a b EUROBASKET - Euroleague Men basketball.
      6. ^ Trajan Langdon.
      7. ^ The Euroleague determines the site for each year's Final Four shortly before the previous year's Final Four, before it can possibly be known who will advance. The 2008 event was held in Madrid.
      8. ^ Euroleague feature: King of the Final Four on YouTube
      9. ^ ESPN - Langdon leads CSKA Moscow past Clippers - NBA.
      10. ^ CSKA icon Langdon announces retirement
      11. ^ "Trajan Langdon retires from basketball". Inside Hoops. Retrieved 20 September 2012. 
      12. ^ 1998 USA Basketball.
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