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Houston Rockets | #0 | Guard

Aaron

Holiday

PPG

6.6

RPG

1.6

APG

1.9

PIE

8.1

HEIGHT

6'0" (1.83m)

WEIGHT

185lb (84kg)

COUNTRY

USA

LAST ATTENDED

UCLA

AGE

27 years

BIRTHDATE

September 30, 1996

DRAFT

2018 R1 Pick 23

EXPERIENCE

5 Years

6'0" | 185lb | 27 years

DRAFT

2018 R1 Pick 23

BIRTHDATE

September 30, 1996

COUNTRY

USA

LAST ATTENDED

UCLA

EXPERIENCE

5 Years

Player Bio

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Aaron Holiday was selected by the Pacers with the 23rd pick in the 2018 NBA Draft. He averaged 5.9 points, 1.3 rebounds and 1.7 assists over 12.9 minutes per game in 50 appearances off the bench. Holiday shot 40.1 percent from the field, 33.9 percent from 3-point range and 82.0 percent from the free throw line. He finished 18th among NBA rookies in assists and 10th in 3-point percentage. Holiday scored in double figures 14 times during the regular season, including five straight games from Nov. 17-26. He came off the bench and played the final 15:14 against Atlanta, 11/17, and helped fuel the Pacers’ win with 12 points (4-6 FG, 3-4 3FG), three rebounds and two assists. He had totaled five points, one rebound and two assists over his previous five appearances and 16 minutes entering the game against Atlanta. He followed that the next game against Utah, 11/19, by scoring a season-high 19 points on 7-for-10 shooting (2-4 3FG, 3-5 FT), to go with seven rebounds in 21 minutes off the bench. Holiday scored six points and handed out a season-high seven assists against Brooklyn, 4/7. 2018-19: Holiday appeared in three games off the bench against the Celtics in the First Round.He averaged 1.7 points over 4.3 minutes per game, Made 2-of-5 field goal attempts, and 1-of-2 3-point tries.

BEFORE NBA

Holiday appeared in 101 career games and made 65 starts over three seasons at UCLA (2015-18). He averaged 14.3 points, 3.2 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 1.3 steals per game. Holiday Shot 45.0 percent from the field, 42.2 percent from three-point range and 79.5 percent from the free throw line over his career. He concluded his career ranking No. 25 on UCLA’s all-time scoring list (1,443 points), fifth in career three-point percentage, No. 7 in career assists per game (4.72), No. 8 in three-pointers made (180), and No. 9 in assists (477) 2015-16: Holiday started all 32 games as a freshman. He averaged 10.3 points, 3.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and a team-leading 1.4 steals in 31.7 minutes per game. He Concluded his freshman season as the team’s leader in three-point field goal percentage (41.9, 39-93), and ranked second on the team in assists (127, 4.0 per game). 2016-17: He played in all 36 games. Holiday averaged 12.3 points, 2.9 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game. He ranked second on the team in assists per game (4.4) and steals per game (1.1). Holiday ranked fourth in the Pac-12 in assists per game (4.4), ninth in three-point field goal percentage (.411) and 11th in assist-turnover ratio (1.8). He was named the nation’s “Sixth Man of the Year” by BleacherReport.com 2017-18: Holiday started all 33 games and averaged a Pac- 12-leading 20.3 points per game as a junior., and became the first UCLA player to lead the conference in scoring since Reggie Miller (25.9) in 1985-86. He also became the Bruins’ first player to average at least 20 points per game in a full season since Ed O’Bannon tallied 20.4 points per game in 1994-95. He also registered a team-leading 5.8 assists per game and 3.7 rebounds per game. Holiday earned First-Team All-Pac-12 Conference honors and was one of five players selected to the league’s All-Defensive Team, captured All-America Third-Team honors from Sporting News, and was a three-time Pac-12 Player of the Week (Dec. 26, Feb. 19, March 5)

PERSONAL LIFE

He was born Aaron Shawn Holiday in Ruston, Louisiana, to parents Shawn and Toya Holiday. Aaron is the youngest of four children, and has two older brothers, Justin and Jrue, and one older sister, Lauren. Aaron and Justin Holiday are set to become the seventh pair of brothers in NBA history to play on the same team, and the second in Pacers franchise history (Tyler and Ben Hansbrough in 2012-13). His brother, Jrue, played at UCLA and now plays for the New Orleans Pelicans. His sister, Lauren, spent two seasons on the UCLA women’s basketball team (2012-13, 2013-14). His sister- in-law, Lauren (Cheney) Holiday, is an Indianapolis native and attended Ben Davis High School. She married brother Jrue, and is a two-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist (2008, 2012) and Women’s World Cup champion (2015).