Jevon Carter

Leroy Jevon Carter (born September 14, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the West Virginia Mountaineers. A point guard for the Mountaineers, Carter was known as one of the top defensive players in college basketball, winning the NABC Defensive Player of the Year and the Lefty Driesell Award after both his junior and senior seasons, and winning the inaugural Naismith Defensive Player of the Year in his final season.

"Leroy Carter" redirects here. For the rugby player, see Leroy Carter (rugby union).
Jevon Carter
No. 4 – Phoenix Suns
PositionPoint guard
LeagueNBA
Personal information
Born (1995-09-14) September 14, 1995
Oak Park, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High schoolProviso East
(Maywood, Illinois)
CollegeWest Virginia (2014–2018)
NBA draft2018 / Round: 2 / Pick: 32nd overall
Selected by the Memphis Grizzlies
Playing career2018–present
Career history
2018–2019Memphis Grizzlies
2018–2019→Memphis Hustle
2019–presentPhoenix Suns
Career highlights and awards
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

High school career

Carter played basketball at Proviso East High School in Maywood, Illinois. He played mostly off the ball in high school.[1] From 2011 to 2012 he played for Team NLP in AAU competition, where one of his teammates was Jalen Brunson.[2] Carter was a three-star recruit and was the No. 299 player in the 2014 class according to 247Sports.com. He received scholarship offers from Akron, Dartmouth, Kent State, Lehigh, Toledo, Valparaiso, UW-Green Bay and Illinois State, but committed to West Virginia.[3]

College career

He converted to the point guard position at West Virginia, making his name as one of the top defensive players in the Big 12 Conference.[1] He was one of the architects of "Press Virginia", coach Bob Huggins's defensive scheme that forces many turnovers.[4] Carter became a starter as a sophomore and averaged 9.5 points and 2.3 rebounds per game.[5]

In Carter's junior season in 2016–17, he averaged 13.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game. He received many accolades for his defensive prowess, earning Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, as well as the Lefty Driesell Award and the NABC Defensive Player of the Year as the top defensive player in the country.[6][7][8] Following his junior season, Carter declared for the 2017 NBA draft, but did not hire an agent.[9] Ultimately he decided to return to the Mountaineers for his senior season.[10]

Prior to the start of the 2017–18 season, Carter was unanimously named to the preseason All-Big 12 team.[11] On November 30, 2017, Carter became WVU's all-time leader in steals, surpassing Greg Jones’ mark of 252 in a win over NJIT.[12] On March 3, 2018 against Iowa State, he became the first major conference player to reach 1500 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists and 300 steals in a career.[13]

On March 12, 2018, Carter was named Academic All-American of the Year for Division I men's basketball.[14]

For the 2017–18 season, Carter was named a second-team All-American by the Associated Press. He was also named to the Sporting News second team, and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) third team, resulting in consensus second-team All-America honors.[15] Later that same week, he was added to the 2018 John R. Wooden Award All American Team.[16] He was also named the 2018 Senior CLASS Award winner. This award (Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School), given annually, is for the most outstanding senior student athlete in Men's Basketball. Carter is the second player in West Virginia University history to win this award, the first being Da'Sean Butler, who won it in 2010.[17]

For his senior season, Jevon Carter won many postseason awards for his defensive play, including Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, the NABC Defensive Player of the Year, the Lefty Driesell Player of the Year and the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year.[18][19][20][21] Carter became the first player to win the Lefty Driesell Player of the Year more than once and only the 7th player to win the NABC Defensive Player of the Year more than once, the first since Hasheem Thabeet won in the 2007-08 season and the 2008-09 season. He won the inaugural Naismith Defensive Player of the Year award.

Records
  • WVU career steal leader (330)
  • WVU single-season steal leader (112, 2018)
  • WVU single-season assist leader (246, 2018)
  • Sole 4x Big 12 All-Defensive Team Member

College statistics
Season Averages[22]
Season Team G GS PTS REB AST STL BLK FG% 3P% FT% MIN TO
2014–15 West Virginia 35 4 8.1 2.3 1.8 1.9 0.1 .360 .314 .770 23.8 1.2
2015–16 West Virginia 35 35 9.5 2.9 3.3 1.7 0.3 .383 .306 .744 27.7 1.7
2016–17 West Virginia 37 36 13.5 5.0 3.7 2.5 0.2 .439 .389 .774 32.0 1.8
2017–18 West Virginia 37 37 17.3 4.6 6.6 3.0 0.4 .422 .393 .858 35.5 2.7
Totals: 143 111 12.2 3.7 3.9 2.3 0.2 .408 .357 .797 29.8 1.8

Professional career

Memphis Grizzlies (2018–2019)

On June 21, 2018, Carter was selected by the Memphis Grizzlies in the second round of the 2018 NBA draft with the 32nd overall pick. On July 12, 2018, the Memphis Grizzlies announced that they had officially signed with Carter.[23] During his rookie season, he has had multiple assignments to the Memphis Hustle, the Grizzlies' G League affiliate.[24] Carter made his NBA debut on December 15, 2018, coming off the bench in a 97–105 loss to the Houston Rockets with eleven points, two steals, a rebound and a block.[25] On April 10, 2019, Carter scored his career-high 32 points with four rebounds, two assists and a steal in a 132–117 win over the Golden State Warriors.[26]

Phoenix Suns (2019–present)

On July 7, 2019, the Grizzlies traded Carter to the Phoenix Suns.[27] On August 8 in the 2020 NBA Bubble, Carter scored a season-high 20 points on 7-10 shooting, including 6-9 from the three-point line in a 119–112 win over the Miami Heat.[28] His previous season-highs both had him scoring 15 points before the season's suspension began.

Career statistics
Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

NBA

Regular season
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2018–19 Memphis 39314.8.303.333.8131.71.8.7.34.4
Career 39314.8.303.333.8131.71.8.7.34.4

Endorsements

On August 3, 2018, Carter and And1 announced via Instagram that Carter had signed to become an And1 brand ambassador.[29]

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gollark: Especially with all my recent UI enhancements.
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gollark: Also, on errors it actually says the error code.
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References
  1. Wright, Ryan (March 22, 2017). "West Virginia's Jevon Carter Will Make You Work for Every Bucket". The Ringer. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
  2. Toohey, Terry (March 23, 2018). "Villanova's Jalen Brunson, West Virginia's Jevon Carter ready to get reacquainted in NCAA Tournament". Montgomery News. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  3. Jackson, Chris (February 12, 2018). "An inside look at WVU's two seniors". The Daily Athenaeum. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  4. Vingle, Mitch (December 2, 2017). "Huggins, WVU players marvel at Jevon Carter after record". Charleston Gazette-Mail. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  5. Casazza, Mike (February 7, 2017). "WVU's Jevon Carter holds his own in Big 12 full of good point guards". Charleston Gazette-Mail. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  6. "Three Teams Lead Men's Basketball Awards". Big 12 Conference. March 5, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
  7. "Louisiana's Wright Named To Lefty Driesell Defensive All-America Team". RaginCajuns.com. April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  8. Anderson, Chris (April 3, 2017). "Jevon Carter Named NABC Defensive Player of the Year". 247Sports.com. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
  9. Payne, Terrence (April 24, 2017). "Jevon Carter enters NBA Draft, won't hire agent". Charleston Gazette-Mail. Retrieved August 6, 2017.
  10. Casazza, Mike (May 22, 2017). "Jevon Carter to return to WVU men's basketball". Charleston Gazette-Mail. Retrieved August 6, 2017.
  11. Cooke, Hunter (October 12, 2017). "West Virginia's Jevon Carter voted to Preseason All-Big 12 unanimously". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved December 9, 2017.
  12. "Carter Breaks WVU Steal Record in Tonight's Win". West Virginia Mountaineers. November 30, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2017.
  13. "West Virginia's Jevon Carter becomes first major conference player to reach 1,500 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists, 300 steals". Retrieved March 10, 2018.
  14. "2017-18 Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Team Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 12, 2018. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  15. http://wvusports.com/news/2018/3/27/mens-carter-named-associated-press-all-american.aspx?path=mbball
  16. http://wvusports.com/news/2018/3/28/mens-basketball-carter-named-to-john-wooden-all-american-team.aspx?path=mbball
  17. http://wvusports.com/news/2018/3/30/mens-basketball-carter-wins-senior-class-award.aspx?path=mbball
  18. "Men's Basketball All-Big 12 Awards Announced". Big 12 Sports. 4 March 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  19. Carter Repeats as NABC Defensive Player of the Year
  20. "Carter garners Lefty Driesell award". WV News. 3 April 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  21. "Jevon Carter Wins Inaugural Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Award | Citizen Naismith Trophy". naismithtrophy.com. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
  22. "Jevon Carter Stats". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  23. "Memphis Grizzlies sign Jevon Carter to multi-year contract". NBA.com. July 15, 2018. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
  24. "2018-19 NBA Assignments". NBA.com. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  25. "Harden has 2nd straight triple-double, Rockets top Grizzlies". ESPN.com. December 15, 2018. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
  26. Associated Press (April 10, 2019). "Carter scores 32, Grizzlies beat Warriors 132-117 in finale". ESPN.com. Retrieved April 11, 2019.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  27. "Suns Complete Trade with Memphis". NBA.com. July 7, 2019. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  28. "Booker's 35 points lead surprising Suns past Heat 119-112". NBA.com. August 8, 2020. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  29. "AND1 on Instagram".
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