Patrick Baldwin Jr.

About

Patrick O’Neal Baldwin Jr. (born November 18, 2002) is an American professional basketball player for Crvena zvezda of the Basketball League of Serbia (KLS), the ABA League, and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Milwaukee Panthers. He was a consensus five-star recruit and one of the top players in the 2021 class.

Patrick Baldwin grew up in Evanston, Illinois until he was in 8th grade. He was on several basketball teams including the league FAAM (Fellowship of Afro-American Men). In 2017, the summer before his freshman year, the Baldwin family moved to Wisconsin, because his father became the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Baldwin played basketball for Hamilton High School in Sussex, Wisconsin. During his freshman year he was part of their 2017–18 team that made the state tournament, losing to future NBA All–Star Tyrese Haliburton and Oshkosh North 57–56 in the final. As a junior, Baldwin averaged 24.3 points and 10.8 rebounds per game, earning Wisconsin Gatorade Player of the Year honors. During the second game of his senior season, Baldwin suffered a season-ending ankle injury. He was…