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Jordan King (basketball)

American basketball player (born 2001)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ100870636 ↗
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Jordan James King (born March 2, 2001) is an American basketball player for Le Mans of the LNB Élite and the EuroCup. He played college basketball for the Siena Saints, East Tennessee State Buccaneers and Richmond Spiders.

High school career

King attended Christian Brothers Academy in Albany, New York. As a senior, he averaged over 24 points per game, before committing to play college basketball at Siena College.

College career

As a freshman at Siena, King appeared in 30 games, averaging 4.7 points per game. His production increased the following season, as he averaged 12.2 points per game, before entering the transfer portal.

On June 9, 2021, King announced that he would be transferring to East Tennessee State University to play for the East Tennessee State Buccaneers. In his first season with East Tennessee State, he averaged 14.6 points per game while shooting 42.9% from three-point range. The following season, in a game against The Citadel in January 2023, King scored a career-high 42 points in a 96–74 rout. He finished the year averaging 15.6 points and 3.6 rebounds per game before entering the transfer portal for a second time.

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“Jordan King (basketball)” enters the record as american basketball player (born 2001). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jordan, King and basketball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2021, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001-03-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jordan, King and basketball.
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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 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q100870636. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001, 2021 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jordan King (basketball)” 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.