Raymond Felton Biography
Raymond Felton who was born as Raymond Bernard Felton, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA.
He was born on June 26th, 1984 in Latta, South Carolina, USA. Felton started his b-ball vocation at Latta High School in Latta, South Carolina. There he drove his secondary school to two state titles and a lifelong record of 104–9.
All the while, he set state scoring precedents with 2,992 and 117 three-pointers. Felton won the South Carolina Mr. B-ball grant as both a lesser and senior and was named Naismith Prep Player of the Year in 2002.
He was MVP of the 2002 Roundball Classic at the United Center in Chicago and was chosen for the 2002 McDonald’s All-American Game (at Madison Square Garden in New York City). Felton played in the McDonald’s All-American game on a similar group with two future New York Knicks colleagues, Carmelo Anthony, and Amar’s Stoudemire. Considered a five-star enlist by Scout.com, Felton was recorded as the No. 1 point protect and the No. 3 player in the country in 2002.
Raymond Felton
Raymond Felton Age
He was born on June 26th, 1984 in Latta, South Carolina, USA.
Raymond Felton Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $15 million.
Raymond Felton Contract | Raymond Felton Salary
Raymond Felton marked a 1 year/$2,393,887 contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder, including $2,393,887 ensured, and a yearly normal pay of $2,393,887. In 2019-20, Felton will win, while conveying a top hit of $1,618,486.
Raymond Felton Height
He is 6″1′ tall.
Raymond Felton College
In his first year, he has cast a ballot Carolina Player of the Year and ACC Freshman of the Week multiple times. He had 236 bits of help and arrived at the midpoint of 12.0 focuses a game. During his sophomore year, he was a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award and the Naismith College Player of the Year Award, had 213 assists, and drove the Tar Heels intakes (63) and free toss rate (81%) while averaging 11.5 focuses per game. Additionally eminent in his subsequent year, Felton set a school-record single-game 18 helps against George Mason on December 7, 2003.
In his third and last season at North Carolina, Felton drove the Tar Heels alongside individual youngsters Rashad McCants and Sean May and first-year recruit Marvin Williams to the 2005 National Championship over the University of Illinois Fighting Illini on April 4, 2005, in St. Louis.
This was the fifth men’s ball title in UNC’s history (1924, 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005). Felton hit a key three-pointer over Deron Williams to break a 65–65 tie late in the game, and afterward concocted a critical take in the last seconds when Illinois got an opportunity to either tie the game or lead the pack. His two free tosses after the take gave the last scoring in the game.
Felton found the middle value of 12.9 focuses and 6.9 assists per game during his lesser season and demonstrated a significantly better shooting touch. In acknowledgment of his endeavors, he has cast a ballot to the All-ACC First Team that season.
Felton likewise won the Bob Cousy Award that respects the best university point protect. Following his lesser battle, EA Sports put Felton on the front of NCAA March Madness 06.
Raymond Felton NBA
Raymond Felton Charlotte Bobcats
Felton was chosen fifth generally in the 2005 NBA draft by the Charlotte Bobcats. Felton was drafted after point watches Chris Paul and Deron Williams. College of North Carolina partners Marvin Williams, Rashad McCants and Sean May were likewise chosen in the draft.
Felton indicated guarantee right out of school, having his breakout game scoring 31 points against the Phoenix Suns in a Bobcats misfortune. Felton’s best all-around round of his tenderfoot year happened January 28, 2006, when he recorded 18 and 13 helps against the Washington Wizards.
Felton began 54 of 82 games for the Bobcats and found the middle value of 11.9 focuses per game, 5.6 assists per game, and 3.3 bounce back per game. In his new kid on the block year, Felton recorded 13 twofold duplicates.
Felton was chosen to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team. Felton came into his second year as the Bobcats’ beginning stage watch. Felton improved in generally every measurement class, raising his help per game count from 5.6 to 7.0. Instrumental in the expansion was the improved play of partners Gerald Wallace, Sean May, and Emeka Okafor and the expansion of then-tenderfoots Adam Morrison and Walter Herrmann.
Regardless of Felton’s strong season, the Bobcats missed the end of the season games. Coming into his third year, the Bobcats searched for more ability for Felton to appropriate to, getting well-known scoring shooting monitor Jason Richardson.
The 2007–08 season was still, be that as it may, a period of remaking for the Bobcats; a few players made a stride back rather than a stage forward. May, Morrison, and Herrmann made strides back and the Bobcats were tormented with wounds. The Bobcats by and by missed the end of the season games.
Felton enhanced his sophomore battle, setting up 14.4 focuses per game, 7.4 helps and 3.0 bounce back per game. Felton likewise turned out to be progressively proficient, raising his shooting rate from 38% to 41%.
Felton still, in any case, battled shooting from three-point go, perhaps the greatest insufficiency leaving school. The Bobcats even put more weight on Felton by drafting DJ Augustin in the 2008 draft.
The Bobcats procured mentor Larry Brown to be their lead trainer. Anyway, Felton relapsed in scoring, helps and FG%. The Bobcats managed Richardson and started to reconstruct by and by. The Bobcats missed the end of the season games and hadn’t made the end of the season games since being made in 2004.
During the 2009 off-season, Felton was a limited free specialist. Nonetheless, he didn’t sign an agreement offer with another group and came back to Charlotte for one more season in the wake of marking the passing offer on September 23, 2009. During the 2009 season, the Bobcats had their best year.
Be that as it may, Felton didn’t; he saw his help and scoring numbers drop to their absolute bottom since his new kid on the block season. Felton anyway raised his FG% to a profession high 46% and improved his stroke from the three-point line, shooting 38.5%. In March, Michael Jordan turned into the greater part proprietor of the Bobcats.
The Bobcats included Stephen Jackson and Tyson Chandler by means of exchanges, and Tyrus Thomas and Larry Hughes late in the season. The Bobcats made the end of the season games without precedent for establishment history.
At the end of the season games, Felton found the middle value of 11.8 focuses per game, 2.5 bounce back per game and 5 helps for each game. The Bobcats were cleared out of the end of the season games, and Felton turned into a free specialist toward the finish of the period. After he dropped 42/12/10 he was named “The Black Austin Brown.”
Raymond Felton New York Knicks and the Denver Nuggets
On July 9, 2010, Felton consented to an agreement with the New York Knicks. After two days, the arrangement was concluded for a long time and $15.8 million. Felton was chosen as co-skipper for the 2011 season close by individual free operator endorser Amar’e Stoudemire.
From the get-go in the year, Felton experienced difficulty working the pick-and-move with Stoudemire. In any case, after a couple of games, Felton picked up certainty and in a matter of moments was a fan-most loved in New York City.
Felton hit various grasp shots, including a stage back blur away three-pointer that pinballed into the net against the Toronto Raptors. The difference in landscape appeared to help Felton; his play additionally observed the Knicks in season finisher conflict just because since 2004.
Felton’s time in New York, be that as it may, would not keep going long. On February 22, 2011, Felton was exchanged to the Denver Nuggets in a three-way bargain which additionally included the Minnesota Timberwolves that brought Carmelo Anthony to New York.
The arrangement sent Felton alongside colleagues Wilson Chandler, Danilo Gallinari, and Timofey Mozgov to the Denver Nuggets. With the Knicks, Felton was poised to have his best season ever. Felton likewise enrolled a reasonable number of All-Star cast a ballot by fans. Felton found the middle value of 17.1 focuses, 9.0 helps, 3.6 bounce back, and 1.8 takes per game in 38.4 minutes a game.
In Denver, Felton was used generally of the seat behind individual University of North Carolina monitor Ty Lawson. Felton and the Nuggets made it to the end of the season games where the Nuggets went facing Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Felton arrived at the midpoint of 11.6 focuses, 6.5 helps and 1.8 bounce back in the postseason. All in all, 2010–11 was Felton’s best season; he found the middle value of 15.5 focuses per game and 8.6 helps per game.
Felton, notwithstanding, communicated disappointment of playing off the seat and behind Lawson. On June 23, 2011, during the 2011 NBA draft, Felton was exchanged to the Portland Trail Blazers for veteran point watch Andre Miller and the #26 by and large choice in the draft, Jordan Hamilton from the University of Texas. In the arrangement, the Trail Blazers likewise managed Rudy Fernández and the rights to Finnish watchman Petteri Koponen.
Raymond Felton Portland Trail Blazers
In his standard season debut with the Blazers, Felton completed the game with 12, 6 bounce back, 8 helps and 1 take in a 107–103 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. Felton and the Blazers battled all through the season.
Felton didn’t coexist with lead trainer Nate McMillan, who was in the long run terminated and supplanted by Kaleb Canales, who turned into the most youthful lead trainer in NBA history. Felton was sidelined by McMillan at one point for Jamal Crawford.
The Blazers completed the season at 28-38 (.424), completing in the eleventh spot in the Western Conference. For Felton, it was one of the most exceedingly awful periods of his profession, as he arrived at the midpoint of a vocation low 11.4 focuses on 40.7% field objective shooting and 30.5% three-point shooting.
Raymond Felton New York Knicks
On July 16, 2012, Felton and Kurt Thomas were exchanged to the New York Knicks for Jared Jeffries, Dan Gadzuric, the rights to Kostas Papanikolaou and Giorgos Printezis, and a second-round draft pick.
Felton marked a three-year, $10 million augmentation with the Knicks. Felton experienced harsh criticism as a result of the shape he was in with Portland. Felton recognized his weight, saying, “I won’t concoct any reasons, I wasn’t fit as a fiddle.”
At a Las Vegas Summer League game between the Knicks and the Toronto Raptors, Felton told Walt Frazier and Mike Breen he had lost in excess of 20 lbs. Felton likewise said he believed he was superior to Jeremy Lin, who was marked by the Houston Rockets that offseason.
On November 2, 2012, when the season warned for the Knicks, Felton recorded 14 points and 9 aids a 104–84 win over the protecting boss Miami Heat. On November 15, 2012, Felton drove the Knicks to a 104–100 street triumph over the San Antonio Spurs as he helped his group conquer a 12-point shortfall in the final quarter with his 25 and 7 assists.
On December 6, 2012, Felton scored a season-high 27 of every 112–92 street prevail upon the Heat to give them their first home loss of the period. The Knicks won without Carmelo Anthony. In mid-December, Felton supposedly endured hand damage, however, he chose to play through it for certain games.
Subsequent to counseling a hand authority, and being educated he didn’t just have a medical procedure, it was noted he would miss 4 a month and a half. On January 23, 2013, he was medicinally cleared for contact, and he made his arrival on January 26, 2013, against the Philadelphia 76ers.
On February 25, 2014, Felton was supposedly captured on crime weapon charges. As a component of a supplication bargain, Felton conceded to endeavored criminal ownership of a weapon and criminal ownership of a gun. He was surveyed a $5,000 fine and 500 hours of network administration. Furthermore, the NBA suspended Felton for the initial four rounds of the 2014–15 season.
Raymond Felton Dallas Mavericks
On June 25, 2014, Felton, alongside Tyson Chandler, was exchanged to the Dallas Mavericks in return for Shane Larkin, Wayne Ellington, José Calderón, Samuel Dalembert, and the 34th and 51st picks in the 2014 NBA draft. On August 7, 2014, Felton was accused of a four-game suspension by the NBA in light of him conceding for weapon ownership.
In the wake of missing the initial 31 rounds of the 2014–15 season with a lower leg damage he supported during preseason, Felton made his introduction for the Mavericks on December 28 against the Oklahoma City Thunder as he played a little more than a moment of activity and recorded no details in the 112–107 win.
On June 22, 2015, Felton practiced his player alternative with the Mavericks for the 2015–16 season. On December 12, 2015, he recorded 10 points, 11 helps and 11 bounce back, the main triple-twofold by a Maverick since Jason Kidd did as such in March 2011.
Raymond Felton Oklahoma City Thunder
On July 10, 2017, Felton marked with the Oklahoma City Thunder. On July 12, 2018, he re-marked with the Thunder. Felton turned into an unhindered free specialist on Monday, July 1 at 12:01 a.m. ET 2019.
