Jordan Farmar
Farmar with Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2011
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| Free agent | |
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| Position | Point guard |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
November 30, 1986 Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Listed weight | 180 lb (82 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Taft (Woodland Hills, California) |
| College | UCLA (2004–2006) |
| NBA draft | 2006 / Round: 1 / Pick: 26th overall |
| Selected by the Los Angeles Lakers | |
| Playing career | 2006–present |
| Career history | |
| 2006–2010 | Los Angeles Lakers |
| 2007 | →Los Angeles D-Fenders |
| 2010–2012 | New Jersey Nets |
| 2011 | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
| 2012–2013 | Anadolu Efes |
| 2013–2014 | Los Angeles Lakers |
| 2014–2015 | Los Angeles Clippers |
| 2015 | Darüşşafaka |
| 2015–2016 | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
| 2016 | Memphis Grizzlies |
| 2016 | Sacramento Kings |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Stats at NBA.com | |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Jordan Robert Farmar (born November 30, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In high school, he was named the Los Angeles Times High-School Player of the Year in 2003–04. Playing for UCLA in college, he was the Rivals.com National Freshman of the Year in 2004–05. Farmar was selected 26th overall in the first round of the 2006 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers. With the Lakers, he won two NBA championships in 2009 and 2010.
Farmar was born in Los Angeles. His mother is named Melinda, known as "Mindy", and his father is Damon Farmar, a former minor league baseball outfielder who was a second round pick in both the 1981 January draft and the 1982 June draft secondary phase. His mother's father, Dr. Howard Baker, attended UCLA and worked at the UCLA Medical Center as a neurologist. Farmar has a half-sister, Shoshana Kolani.
Farmar's parents divorced when he was two years old, and he went to live with his mother. She soon met and married her current husband (Farmar's stepfather), Israeli Yehuda Kolani from Tel Aviv.
Farmar is Jewish, as are his mother and stepfather. He attended Hebrew school and had his bar mitzvah at Temple Judea in Tarzana, California.
Farmar started playing basketball at age 4. He credits his stepfather Yehuda Kolani with instilling discipline, mental strength, persistence, and a sense of obligation. Farmar inherited his competitive drive from his father and mentor, Damon Farmar, who played football and baseball at University High and baseball in the minor leagues. The younger Farmar spent hours in his father's clubhouses, with his father's teammates, and watching his father play. Farmar's godfather is former major league baseball player Eric Davis.
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