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Jeff Teague

American basketball player (born 1988)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ552935 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jeffrey Demarco Teague (born June 10, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player, who is the head coach for Pike High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for five teams between 2009 and 2021, including seven seasons with the Atlanta Hawks. Since retiring in 2021, he has worked as regional scout for the Hawks. Teague played college basketball for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons before being selected 19th overall in the 2009 NBA draft by the Hawks. He made an appearance as an NBA All-Star in 2015 and won an NBA championship in 2021 with the Milwaukee Bucks.

Early life

Teague attended Pike High School in Indianapolis, Indiana where as a senior in 2006–07, he averaged 22 points and four assists per game. Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Teague was listed as the No. 9-point guard and the No. 57 player in the nation in 2007.

College career

Teague played college basketball for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.

Editorial summary

“Jeff Teague” enters the record as american basketball player (born 1988). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jeff, Teague and American 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—1988, 2009, 2021, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-06-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jeff, Teague and American.
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Why this record matters

“Jeff Teague” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jeff, Teague and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q552935. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988, 2009, 2021 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jeff Teague” 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.