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Chasson Randle

American basketball player (born 1993)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ18706030
Source-derived summary

Chasson Randle (born February 5, 1993) is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal. As a senior in 2014–15, he was considered one of the top point guards in the country. Born in Rock Island, Illinois, Randle played basketball for Rock Island High School.

High school career

Randle was a highly recruited player out of Rock Island High School. He had led his school to its first Illinois state title, and shared Illinois Mr. Basketball honors with East Aurora's Ryan Boatright in 2011. He had his best season as a senior recording 22.3 points per game and 7.7 rebounds per game. Randle is Rock Island's all-time leader in scoring with 2,159 points and rebounding with 773 boards. He was named in ESPN 100 top recruits for 2011 receiving a grading of 94, while ranking 60th nationally and 10th in the point guard position.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Chasson Randle” is american basketball player (born 1993). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Chasson, Randle and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2014, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-02-05. For this dossier, Chasson, Randle and American is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18706030. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2014 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from Chasson Randle” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.