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The offer was noted online by and picked up by the press, leading to the problematic statements by Ponsetto. Initially, interim coach Tracy Webster, made an oral offer on January 30 outside the DePaul locker room at Allstate Arena. Īs a 6-foot-7-inch (2.01 m) eighth-grader, Okafor was recruited by DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball in violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recruiting rules when DePaul Athletic Director Jean Lenti Ponsetto made public comments about an offer. Later the family moved to Chicago's North Side so that Okafor could attend Whitney Young High School. In November 2008, during seventh grade he matched his father's height of 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m). The adjustment was difficult because he was shy and so tall that other students thought he was put in the class for having failed. Okafor permanently moved in with his father to the South Side of Chicago and then to Rosemont. When he was 9 years old, his mother contracted bronchitis and died two weeks later from a collapsed lung. As a youth, Okafor split time between his mother's home in the town of Moffett, Oklahoma and his father's home in Chicago. His father, Chukwudi, known as Chuck, is a second generation Nigerian American of Igbo descent, and his mother, Dacresha Lanett Benton, was African-American and European-American. Okafor is often considered one of the biggest NBA ' draft busts' of the 2010s. At Duke, he earned the USBWA National Freshman of the Year and ACC Player of the Year, and a unanimous 2015 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American first-team selection. Okafor signed with Duke as a package with Tyus Jones, with widespread recognition as the preseason Collegiate National Player of the Year. Young Magnet High School, where he earned high school national player of the year awards from McDonald's, USA Today and Parade. He played high school basketball in Chicago, Illinois for Whitney M.

Okafor had been heavily recruited before high school and was at the top of the recruiting rankings for several years. He was selected with the third overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers. He played his freshman season of college for the 2014–15 Duke national championship team.

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Jahlil Obika Okafor (pronounced / ˈ dʒ ɑː l iː l/ born December 15, 1995) is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for Zhejiang Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).

McDonald's All-American Game co-MVP ( 2014).

USBWA National Freshman of the Year (2015).

Consensus first-team All-American ( 2015).

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