Jamaal Magloire

Jamaal Dane Magloire (born May 21, 1978) is a Canadian retired professional basketball player and is currently serves as an assistant coach for the Toronto Raptors. He played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets, Milwaukee Bucks, Portland Trail Blazers, New Jersey Nets, Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat, and Toronto Raptors. The 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m), 265 lb (120 kg; 18.9 st) center was selected out of the University of Kentucky by the Charlotte Hornets, with the 19th overall pick in the 2000 NBA draft, after withdrawing his name from the previous draft. He was voted into the NBA All-Star Game in 2004, becoming only the second Canadian All-Star in NBA history.\n', ' Currently, Magloire is employed by the Toronto Raptors in a position that combines Basketball Development Consultant and Community Ambassador. He was a Raptors assistant coach from 2013 to 2016.\n', ' Magloire was born in Toronto, Ontario to Trinidadian immigrant parents, Garth, a welder, and Marion, an insurance worker. He was raised in the city\'s Scarborough district and attended high school at Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute, where he led the school\'s AAA basketball team to back-to-back Ontario provincial championships in 1995 and 1996.\n', '