Frank Jackson (basketball)
Jackson in the 2016 McDonald's All-American Boys Game
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| No. 15 – New Orleans Pelicans | |
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| Position | Point guard |
| League | NBA |
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| Born |
May 4, 1998 Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Listed weight | 205 lb (93 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Lone Peak (Highland, Utah) |
| College | Duke (2016–2017) |
| NBA draft | 2017 / Round: 2 / Pick: 31st overall |
| Selected by the Charlotte Hornets | |
| Playing career | 2017–present |
| Career history | |
| 2017–present | New Orleans Pelicans |
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Franklin Willis Jackson (born May 4, 1998) is an American basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The freshman guard was ranked as a five-star recruit, with a 94 recruiting grade, and was the #11 player in the class of 2016 and the top college prospect in the state of Utah, according to ESPN. Jackson lived in Alpine, Utah, and committed to Duke on September 1, 2015.
Franklin attended Lehi High School as a freshman before transferring to Lone Peak High School as a sophomore. As a sophomore in 2014, Jackson averaged 17.9 points a game and helped his team, along with 4-star future BYU recruit TJ Haws, win the Utah 5A state championship. As a junior, he averaged 26.9 Points per game, 4.5 rebounds per game, and 2.0 steals earning Fourth-team Maxpreps All-American, Salt Lake Tribune All-state honors and First Team All USA Utah selection. During the 2015 summer, Jackson then was invited to the Under Armour Elite 24 Invitational in Brooklyn, New York where he performed extremely well and out-shined the competition, where he scored 20 points earning Co-MVP honors, including recording an in-game, 360-degree fastbreak dunk that was much-talked about and replayed throughout the televised broadcast. Jackson later competed in camps such as, NBPA Top 100 Camp and Adidas Nations camps. More Highlights of his junior season include a 54-point outing on December 18, 2014, against Clark County (Nev.) in the Jerry Tarkanian Classic setting a Lone Peak Record in points. Jackson averaged 24 points and 2.7 assists in 10 games on the Adidas Uprising Gauntlet circuit with his AAU team, the Utah Prospects. His AAU coach called Jackson "more skilled at this age than Russell Westbrook was." As a senior, he averaged 28.1 points per game, 6.4 rebounds per game, and 3.0 assist per game while being named Utah Mr. Basketball, Salt Lake Tribune player of the year. Jackson was named a McDonald's All-American in January 2016, and competed in both the Powerade Jam Fest, where he won the Slam Dunk Competition, and in the All-Star game on March 30, 2016, at the United Center in Chicago, IL, scoring 19 points en route to earning Co-MVP honors alongside teammate Josh Jackson (no relation), who also had 19 for the victorious West squad. Jackson was also selected to the 2016 Jordan Brand Classic. Jackson was ranked #10 overall player and #4 at his position in the 2016 high school class according to ESPN.
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