Jonathan James Scheyer is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach for the Duke Blue Devils of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
49 Facts About Jon Scheyer
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Jon Scheyer led the championship team in points per game, assists, free-throw percentage, and steals per game.
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Jon Scheyer was born in Northbrook, Illinois, and is the youngest of three children of Laury and Jim Jon Scheyer.
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Jon Scheyer was raised in his father's Jewish religion, and became a Bar Mitzvah.
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Jon Scheyer began dribbling a basketball at age three and played in his first AAU national tournament six years later.
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Jon Scheyer received a scholarship offer from Marquette University's Tom Crean as an eighth-grader.
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Jon Scheyer attended Glenbrook North High School and led the Spartans to an Illinois High School Association Class AA state basketball championship as a junior, a 3rd-place finish in 2003 as a freshman, and an Elite Eight appearance in the state playoffs three out of four years from 2003 to 2006.
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Jon Scheyer was known as the "Jewish Jordan", and the Spartans' state championship team is the only high school state championship basketball squad in the nation known to have included an all-Jewish starting line-up.
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Jon Scheyer was the only non-senior among those First Team All-State selections and was the only underclassman on any of the first three All-State squads.
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One example of his dogged pursuit of excellence is that while in high school, Jon Scheyer refused to leave the gym one night until he made 50 consecutive free throws.
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Jon Scheyer is the fourth-leading scorer in Illinois history with 3,034 points, and he is the only player in state history to finish his career ranked in the all-time top 10 in points, rebounds, assists, and steals.
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Jon Scheyer was named Illinois Mr Basketball in 2006 by an overwhelming margin, a high school All-American, a two-time Gatorade state Player of the Year, and a three-time All-State selection.
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Jon Scheyer had a reputation as an exceptional 3-point shooter, a good defensive rebounder, and a big-game performer.
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Jon Scheyer was named to the century-list, the "100 Legends of Illinois Basketball ".
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Jon Scheyer would take the shirt off his back to win a game.
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Jon Scheyer can hit runners while shooting back across his body.
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Jon Scheyer was a 2006 Inductee into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
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Jon Scheyer believed that playing for the Blue Devils provided him with the best chance of playing in the Final Four.
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Jon Scheyer ultimately chose to attend Duke, where he majored in History.
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Jon Scheyer was an ACC All-Freshman Team selection, and was named "ACC Rookie of the Week" three times.
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Jon Scheyer tied for second on the team with 39 steals, and averaged 12.2 points per game.
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Jon Scheyer tied the Duke freshman record by making 115 free throws, and holds the third-longest streak for consecutive free throws made in Duke history at 40.
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Jon Scheyer started only once during his sophomore year, but played in all 34 games.
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Jon Scheyer scored 27 points at Miami on February 20,2008, matching the most points by a player off the bench in Duke history.
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Jon Scheyer had a team-best 2.24:1 assist-to-turnover ratio, averaged the third-most minutes-per-game on the team, was fourth in scoring, and was widely hailed as one of the country's top sixth men.
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Jon Scheyer averaged 3.9 rebounds, 2.4 assists, and 1.4 steals per game.
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Jon Scheyer scored a then-career-high 30 points against Wake Forest on February 22,2009.
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Florida State Seminoles men's basketball coach Leonard Hamilton said he thought Jon Scheyer had a "calming" influence on the team's offense.
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Jon Scheyer was named the MVP of the 2009 ACC Tournament after scoring 29 points in the championship game.
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Jon Scheyer makes really good decisions with the ball, whether it's a pass, a shot, or the time on the clock.
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Jon Scheyer shot 11-of-13 and hit a career-best seven 3-pointers while grabbing eight rebounds and getting nine assists.
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Jon Scheyer made a 3-pointer with 18 seconds left to seal a win for Duke over Georgia Tech for the ACC championship on March 14,2010.
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Jon Scheyer had 15 points in the win, and led the team with 5 assists.
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Jon Scheyer became the second player to win an Illinois high school state championship and an NCAA Division I championship, the other having been Quinn Buckner, who won state titles at Thornridge High School in 1971 and 1972, and then was a champion with Indiana in 1976.
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Jon Scheyer signed with Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports prior to the NBA draft.
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Jon Scheyer had 38 double-figure scoring games in the single season, 110 3-point field goals, 194 free throws, and was the 9th player in Duke history to score over 100 points for four seasons.
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Jon Scheyer is the only player in Duke history to record at least 2,000 points, 500 rebounds, 400 assists, 250 3-pointers, and 200 steals in a career.
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Jon Scheyer played on the Miami Heat's 19-man 2010 NBA Las Vegas Summer League team.
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Jon Scheyer hit the game-winning shot in the team's first game.
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Jon Scheyer needed five stitches to close a cut to his right eyelid, his eye's optic nerve was injured, and he suffered a tear in its retina, which was surgically reattached.
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Maccabi Tel Aviv coach David Blatt approached Jon Scheyer about playing in Europe.
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On September 22,2010, Jon Scheyer accepted a training camp invitation with the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers.
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Jon Scheyer just knows how to play, and that's a basketball skill.
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Jon Scheyer had turned down several offers from overseas, and offers from other D-League teams.
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Jon Scheyer said his eye had healed from the traumatic injury that he suffered in the NBA Summer League.
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In June 2011, Jon Scheyer signed a two-year contract worth a reported $450,000 with Euroleague contender Maccabi Tel Aviv, the European league's 2011 runner-up and five-time champion.
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Jon Scheyer began playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv when its season started on October 1,2011.
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Jon Scheyer agreed to play with the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2012 Orlando Summer League.
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Jon Scheyer played in five games in the summer league, averaging 5.8 points and 1.4 assists per game.