Jawann Oldham
Cleveland High School 1976
Basketball
SPS High School Athletic Hall of Fame • Seattle WA
High School
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Two-time All-Metro first-team basketball selection
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Led Eagles to two consecutive state championships
College
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Earned 9th-highest field goal percentage (57%) in a single season in Seattle University history
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Finished career with 1,530 points (10th on all-time list) and 965 rebounds, behind only Elgin Baylor
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Won gold medal as member US World Games’ basketball team in summer of 1979
Professional
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Drafted to Denver Nuggets in 1980 NBA draft (41st overall draft pick)
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Played center for 10 years in the NBA – including three with Michael Jordan on the Chicago Bulls in
the mid-1980s
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1980 Olympic gold medalist for Team USA
Other
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Basketball pioneer in sport’s lesser known nations, with the Jawann
Oldham Professional Development Basketball Academy now covering Abu
Dhabi and Dubai
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Started the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) in China
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Developed, and later coached for, Basketball Japan League (bj-league)