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Keon Johnson (basketball, born 1995)

basketball player (1995-)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ29060333 ↗
Source-derived summary

Keon Johnson (born September 29, 1995) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball at Winthrop University, where he was named Big South Conference Player of the Year in 2017.

Johnson passed the 2,000 career point mark in a 2017 Big South tournament game, making him Winthrop's all-time Division I scoring leader. Johnson led the Eagles to the tournament championship, earning MVP honors and helping the team advance to the 2017 NCAA tournament. At the close of the season, Johnson was named Big South Player of the Year and an honorable mention All-American by the Associated Press.

In 2020, Johnson was voted into the 2010–19 Big South Men's Basketball All-Decade Team.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Keon Johnson (basketball, born 1995)” as basketball player (1995-). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1995, 2017, 2020, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-09-29. The account is most persuasive where Keon, Johnson and basketball can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as basketball player (1995-). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q29060333. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2017, 2020 and 2010.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Keon Johnson (basketball, born 1995)” 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.