Skal Labissière (French: [labisjɛʁ]; born March 18, 1996) is a Haitian professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He graduated from Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, Tennessee before playing one season of college basketball for Kentucky. Labissière has also played for the Sacramento Kings.\n', '

Labissière was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His basketball career began at the Collège Canado-Haïtien, a junior-senior high school in Port-au-Prince, which participated in school championships organized by the Comité Interscolaire de Basket-ball Amateur (CIBA), and the Association de Basket-ball Interscolaire (ASI). During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, his family\'s home collapsed with Labissière, his mother and his brother inside. All three survived, but were trapped under the debris for three hours. Labissière\'s legs were trapped, causing them to go numb and he was unable to walk for a few weeks after. A few months after the earthquake, Labissière moved to the United States in Memphis, Tennessee, to live with Gerald Hamilton, who ran the Reach Your Dream Foundation, which brought international prospects to the United States.\n', '

Labissière attended Evangelical Christian School in Memphis and started to play varsity basketball as an eighth-grader. When he had first arrived, Labissière spoke little English and required a French interpreter in all of his classes. After three to four months, he didn\'t need the help and became fluent. In 2014, he left the school his senior year and enrolled at Lausanne Collegiate School, also located in Memphis, but because of the move he was ruled by TSSAA as ineligible to play basketball at Lausanne for the season. So instead, Labissière played for Gerald Hamilton\'s Reach Your Dream Prep Academy team, where he averaged 26 points, 12 rebounds and 4.5 blocks per game.\n', '

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