Jacque Vaughn

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Jacque Vaughn (born February 11, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays reserve point guard for the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA. He won his first championship as a member of the Spurs in 2007.

Vaughn played collegiately at the University of Kansas and was selected 27th overall by the Utah Jazz in the 1997 NBA Draft. In addition to playing four seasons in Utah, Vaughn has also played with the Orlando Magic, the Atlanta Hawks (in two separate stints), as well as the New Jersey Nets. He holds 1997-2006 career averages of 4.8 points and 2.6 assists in 17.2 minutes per game.He currently holds the NBA record for consecutive missed field goal attempts to open a season, missing his first 22 to start the 2001 season with the Atlanta Hawks.

In his college career, Vaughn made an immediate impact, becoming the starting point guard as a freshman. Among his first year highlights was a game winning three pointer at the buzzer to beat Indiana University in a game at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas. Throughout his four years at Kansas, Vaughn was best known as a distributor of the basketball. He also had great speed and was a strong defender. By the end of his college career, he was the all-time leader in assists in Kansas basketball history with 804 (since surpassed by Aaron Miles) as well as the Big Eight Conference all-time record holder. In 1997, the award given annually to the school's assist leader was renamed to include Vaughn, Miles and original assists leader, Cedric Hunter as the Hunter/Vaughn/Miles Assists Award.

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In addition to his athletic prowess, Vaughn was an outstanding student in the classroom, maintaining a 3.94 GPA in high school Honors and AP courses, and a 3.72 GPA as a Business Administration major in college. He was selected to participate in the prestigious McDonald's All-American Game in 1993 and was named co-MVP with the University of North Carolina's Jerry Stackhouse. That year, Vaughn was also awarded the Dial Award as the nation's top male high school scholar-athlete, becoming the first basketball player ever to win that award, and was a two-time Academic All-American at Kansas and the 1997 GTE Academic All-American of the Year. He was named the Big Eight Player of the Year in 1996 and a was a two-time all-conference pick.^{[citation needed]} His number 11 college jersey was retired on December 31, 2002, and hangs in honor in the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse.^[1]

Vaughn is married to his college sweetheart, Laura, and has two sons, Jalen and Jeremiah.

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