Josh Giddey

About

Joshua James Giddey (born 10 October 2002) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected by the Oklahoma City Thunder with the sixth overall pick in the 2021 NBA draft. Giddey is the youngest player in NBA history to record a triple-double, having done so at 19 years, 84 days old. He also became the first rookie since Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson in 1961 to record three consecutive triple-doubles.

Giddey was born on October 10, 2002, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to professional basketball players Kim and Warrick Giddey. Warrick made the Australian Schoolboys teams in both Rugby league and Rugby union before playing for the Illawarra Hawks and Melbourne Tigers in the National Basketball League (NBL), while Kim played for the Melbourne Tigers women’s basketball team in the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL). Giddey grew up supporting Hawthorn Football Club whilst living in Yarraville and attended St Kevin’s College in Toorak from Years 7 to 10, before emerging as one of Australia’s top basketball prospects with the NBA Global Academy, a training center part of…