Jordan Adams

Jordan LaVell Adams (born July 8, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for Dewa United Banten of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL).

He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins.

He was the first UCLA freshman to score 20 or more points in his first four games, and was an all-conference first-team selection in the Pac-12 Conference in his sophomore year.

For the season, he led the team in both scoring at almost 18 points per game, shot a team-best 83.6 percent of his free throws, led the conference in steals at 2.8 per game, and broke the school record for steals in a season previously set by Cameron Dollar (82) in 1997.

Adams was voted to the All-Pac-12 first team, and was also named UCLA's most outstanding team player.

Considered a four-star recruit by ESPN.com, Adams was listed as the No. 9 small forward and the No. 41 player in the nation in 2012.

He also played Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball with the Atlanta Celtics.

Shortly after Celtics' coach Korey McCray became an assistant coach at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Adams accepted an athletic scholarship to play for the UCLA Bruins.

Adams in 2012 joined fellow incoming freshman Shabazz Muhammad, Kyle Anderson, and Tony Parker in a UCLA recruiting class considered the best in the nation.

The first of the four recruits to sign, Adams was the only one that was not a McDonald's All-American in high school.

Despite the competition, he remained committed to UCLA.

He began the 2012–13 season with 20 or more points in the first four games, becoming the first UCLA freshman to accomplish that feat; he was the first Bruin in any class to start the season with four straight since Don MacLean (6 straight) in 1990–91.

Though he did not start until the seventh game of the season, Adams was second on the team in scoring behind Muhammad.

He finished the season starting in 27 of 33 games played, ranked eighth in the Pac-12 Conference in scoring with 15.3 points per game, led the conference with 73 steals, and was fourth with an 84.3 free throw percentage.

UCLA coach Ben Howland and Arizona Wildcats coach Sean Miller were surprised that Adams did not make the conference's all-freshman team.

Miller further believed that Adams should have been named to the All-Pac-12 team as well as the conference's all-defensive team.

In the semifinals of the 2013 Pac-12 tournament, Adams scored 11 points in the last six minutes in a comeback victory over Arizona.

However, he broke his right foot on the final play of the game; he had fractured the same foot in high school.

Without Adams, the Bruins lost their next two games, including a season-ending loss to the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the opener of the 2013 NCAA tournament.

Two days after the season ended, Howland was fired and replaced by Steve Alford.

Adams did not play basketball for four months while his foot healed.

In his sophomore season in 2013–14, Adams said he enjoyed his role under Alford and his "very open" system, more so than he did with Howland.

Coaches gave Adams the nickname 'Spider-Man', after his ability for steals with his "web on the ball."

Early in the season, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin wrote that it could be Adams' last college season given his prospects of playing professionally in the NBA.

Adams shot 50% from the field during the Bruins' non-conference schedule, and began Pac-12 play with 21 points on 8-for-13 shooting against the USC Trojans.

However, he shot just 36.2% in the next 10 games, before shooting 10-for-14 against Utah for 24 points, his then-career high against a Pac-12 opponent.

On February 27, he and Anderson missed one game after being suspended for a violation of team rules.

After deciding to forgo his remaining college eligibility and enter the 2014 NBA draft, Adams was selected by Memphis Grizzlies in the first round with the 22nd overall pick.

He played two seasons with Memphis before being waived after multiple knee surgeries.

Adams was born in Atlanta to John Adams, a nutrition manager, and Sabrina Robinson Johnson, a dental hygienist.

His parents never married but remained friends.

When Adams was in the fourth grade and his life began to revolve around American football and basketball, he moved from his mother's house to his father's. One of Adams' coaches was usually his father from when he was six until he was 16.

Adams attended Central Gwinnett High School in Lawrenceville, Georgia, for his first two seasons.

He transferred to Oak Hill Academy in Virginia for his final two seasons, where he was the ninth player in their basketball program's rich history to score 1,000 career points.

On March 6, Adams scored a career-high 31 as UCLA clinched a No. 2 seed in the upcoming 2014 Pac-12 tournament with a 91–82 win at Washington.

The Bruins won the tournament, with Adams hitting a three-point field goal that broke a tie with 45 seconds remaining in a 75–71 upset over No. 4 ranked Arizona in the championship game.

In April 2014, Adams declared early for the NBA draft, foregoing his final two years of college eligibility.

Many analysts believed he had a chance to be a first-round pick.

He finished his career at UCLA having played 69 games while averaging 16.4 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 2.1 assists.

He made 46.7 percent of his field goals and had a school-record 2.43 steals per game.