PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Emmanuel Mudiay was selected by the Denver Nuggets with the No. 7 overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft. He spent his first three NBA seasons with the Nuggets and the past two with the New York Knicks. He averaged a career-best 14.8 points on 44.6 percent shooting over 59 games (42 starts) during the 2018-19 season.

BEFORE NBA

Mudiay, who moved to the United States from the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he was 5, grew up in Texas and was one of the country's top high school recruits. Mudiay committed to play at SMU but later decided to forgo college and joined the Guangdong Southern Tigers club in China, where he spent one injury-shortened season.