Chavano Rainer "Buddy" Hield was born on December 17,1992 and is a Bahamian professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association.
24 Facts About Buddy Hield
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Buddy Hield played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners and was named the Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 2015 and 2016.
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Buddy Hield was dealt to the Indiana Pacers in a package for Domantas Sabonis in 2022.
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Buddy Hield grew up in Eight Mile Rock, a coastal region west of Freeport, in the West Grand Bahama district in the Bahamas.
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Buddy Hield was fifth of seven children of his mother Jackie Braynen.
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Buddy Hield received his nickname from his mother after Bud Bundy of the sitcom Married.
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Buddy Hield was first featured in high school by The All Bahamian Brand, a basketball magazine from the Bahamas.
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Buddy Hield showed his early ability to lead his team from a young age by taking his Jack Hayward High School basketball team to the championship of the Providence Holiday Tournament on a buzzer-beater and leading his team to win the Grand Bahamas High School Championships.
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Buddy Hield was highly recruited and selected the Oklahoma Sooners over the Kansas Jayhawks.
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Buddy Hield was a second-team All-Big 12 selection as a sophomore as he averaged 16.5 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.4 steals per game.
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Buddy Hield worked on his defense prior to his junior year and expanded his offensive game to more of a high-volume three-point shooter.
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Buddy Hield averaged 17.4 points and 5.4 rebounds per game as a junior at Oklahoma and shot 41 percent from the field.
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Buddy Hield was a First Team All-Big 12 selection and was named Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year.
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Buddy Hield was listed on the Oscar Robertson Award preseason watchlist as well as the Naismith College Player of the Year preseason watchlist.
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Buddy Hield recorded a career high of 46 points in a triple overtime loss to Kansas on January 4,2016, receiving a standing ovation from the opposing crowd after a postgame interview with Scott Van Pelt.
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On June 23,2016, Buddy Hield was selected by the New Orleans Pelicans with the sixth overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft.
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On February 20,2017, Buddy Hield was traded, along with Tyreke Evans, Langston Galloway and 2017 first-round and second-round draft picks, to the Sacramento Kings for DeMarcus Cousins and Omri Casspi.
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In December 2018, Buddy Hield had a seven-game streak with 20 points or more.
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On October 21,2019, Buddy Hield signed a four-year contract extension.
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Buddy Hield apologized to the entire team the next day for his remarks.
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On February 28,2021, Buddy Hield became the fastest player in history to make 1,000 3-pointers, needing 350 games only to reach the mark.
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Buddy Hield made his 230th three-pointer of the season, surpassing Reggie Miller for the most three-pointers made in a season in Pacers history.
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Buddy Hield traveled to the city of Tepic in Nayarit, Mexico from August 1 to 7,2014 to represent the Bahamas national team in the 2014 Centrobasket, which is the regional basketball championship of FIBA Americas for the Central American and Caribbean subzone.
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Buddy Hield averaged a tournament-leading 19.8 points per game and a team-high 6.0 rebounds.