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Kevin Young (basketball, born 1990)

Kevin Young
Kevin Young Rainmen (cropped).jpg
Young shoots a free throw for the Rainmen
No. 40 – Santa Cruz Warriors
Position Forward
League NBA G League
Personal information
Born (1990-06-24) June 24, 1990 (age 27)
Riverside, California
Nationality Puerto Rican
Listed height 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight 190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
High school Perris (Perris, California)
College
NBA draft 2013 / Undrafted
Playing career 2013–present
Career history
2013 Halcones de Xalapa
2014 Brujos de Guayama
2014–2015 Halifax Rainmen
2015 Brujos de Guayama
2015–2016 Maine Red Claws
2016–2017 Indios de Mayagüez
2018 Kansas City Tornados
2018–present Santa Cruz Warriors
Career highlights and awards

Kevin Young, Jr. (born June 24, 1990) is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player for the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for Loyola Marymount and Kansas.

Young attended Perris High School of the Sun Belt League. He helped his team go 25-7 overall and 10-0 in league play and leading his team to the CIF-SS Division 3 finals where it lost to Hemet West Valley. He finished his senior season averaging 16.1 points, 10.8 rebounds and 3.7 blocks.

Young began his college basketball career with Loyola Marymount where he broke the LMU school freshman rebounds (224) and rebounds per game (7.2 rpg) records with 224 boards for 7.2 rpg and also set the LMU freshman records with 34 blocked shots and 51 steals.

In 2011, Young transferred to Kansas. As a junior, he played in 38 of 39 games,becoming the Jayhawks’ key sixth man as the season progressed.He averaged 11.4 minutes, 3.4 points, 3.0 rebounds and 0.6 assists per game. As a senior, he ranked among the Big 12 leaders in rebounding (seventh, 6.8) and steals (15th, 1.1) and was Kansas’ second-leading rebounder at 6.8 rpg. Young had 22 games with seven or more rebounds, including each of his final four games of the season.

After going undrafted in the 2013 NBA draft, Young signed with Mexican club Halcones de Xalapa on October 29, 2013. He later had a stint in Puerto Rico playing for Brujos de Guayama before signing with the Halifax Rainmen in December 2014. Young was named NBL Canada Defensive Player of the Year for the 2014–15 season. On May 1, 2015, he and 10 Rainmen teammates were fined $5,000 each and suspended from the NBL for an indefinite amount of time. The team did not appear in the decisive contest of the league finals after violence broke out in the shootaround prior to the game. He subsequently returned to Brujos de Guayama.


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