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Ochai Young Agbaji (born April 20, 2000) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a senior at the University of Kansas, Agbaji was named a consensus first-team All-American and voted the Big 12 Player of the Year in 2022. He led the Jayhawks to a national championship and was named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player (MOP).
Agbaji was drafted as the 14th overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. However, he was traded to the Utah Jazz in September before playing a regular-season game in Cleveland. He was traded to the Toronto Raptors in 2024.
Agbaji was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but grew up mainly in Kansas City, Missouri. He grew up playing soccer, upon his father’s encouragement, playing club soccer as well as Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball from a young age. Agbaji stopped playing soccer as a sophomore at Oak Park High School in Kansas City, Missouri to focus on basketball. He grew nine inches (23 cm) between his freshman and junior years. In his basketball career at Oak Park, Agbaji did not receive offers from any Power Five college programs…
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