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Josh Robinson (basketball)

American basketball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ30122996 ↗
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Josh Robinson (born March 13, 1996) is an American professional basketball player.

High school and college career

Robinson was a stand-out scorer for St. Mary's High School, averaging 35.8 points a game as a senior en route to Player of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year (by the Archdiocesan Athletic Association Large Division) honors.

Mostly coming off the bench, he averaged 9.9 points per contest in his freshman year (2014–15) at Austin Peay. He increased his scoring output as a sophomore, pouring in 16.9 points a game for the Governors, making 72 triples on the season, while pulling down 3.1 rebounds and handing out 2.6 assists per outing. As a junior, Robinson scored 20.3 points per game, having converted 71-of-194 from beyond the arc. He also averaged 3.5 assists and 3.0 rebounds per contest. In early March 2017, Robinson was arrested on drug charges and subsequently suspended indefinitely by Austin Peay for a violation of team rules.

Robinson opted to enter the 2017 NBA draft as an underclassman, but was not taken by any team.

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

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2014, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-03-13. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Josh, Robinson and basketball.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30122996. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2014 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Josh Robinson (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.