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Nationality
  
American / Russian

NBA draft
  
1998 / Undrafted

Weight
  
84 kg

College
  
Bucknell (1994–1998)

Height
  
1.85 m


Listed weight
  
185 lb (84 kg)

Role
  
Basketball player

Listed height
  
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Name
  
Jon Holden

Education
  
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Born
  
August 10, 1976 (age 48) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (
1976-08-10
)

Jon Robert Holden


Jon Robert "J.R." Holden (born August 10, 1976) (Russian: Джон Ро́берт Хо́лден) is a retired American-Russian professional basketball player, currently serving as an NBA scout for the Detroit Pistons. Holden was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At 1.85 m (6'1") tall, he could play at both the point guard and shooting guard positions, but he primarily played at point guard.

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As a member of CSKA Moscow, Holden won two EuroLeague titles, in 2006 and 2008. Moreover, he reached eight consecutive EuroLeague Final Four tournaments, a record he shares with his former CSKA teammate, Theo Papaloukas. His consistency at the highest level of European basketball earned him a selection to the EuroLeague 2001–2010 All-Decade Team.

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He was also a member of the senior men's Russian national basketball team, which he helped lead to the FIBA EuroBasket title in 2007, Russia's first ever gold medal in the tournament.

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High school

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Holden attended and played high school basketball Wilkinsburg High School, in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, and at Linsly School, in Wheeling, West Virginia.

College career

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After high school, Holden played NCAA Division I college basketball at Bucknell University, with the Bucknell Bison, from 1994 to 1998.

Professional career

After graduation from Bucknell, holden received a call from the basketball club ASK/Brocēni/LMT, located in Riga, Latvia, offering him $3,000 net income a month to join their team. He accepted, and began a long and very successful career in European basketball.

Holden played for teams in: the Latvian League (ASK/Brocēni/LMT 1998–99), the Belgian League (Telindus Oostende 1999–01), the Greek Basket League (AEK Athens 2001–02) and the Russian Superleague A (CSKA Moscow 2002–2011). He won national championships in each country. He was named the 2003 Russian Superleague A Player of the Year by the website Eurobasket.com. He also earned an Import Players Honorable Mention in the 2002 Eurobasket.com website's All-Europe Rankings. Holden won the EuroLeague 2005–06 and the EuroLeague 2007–08 season championships with CSKA.

Holden started for CSKA Moscow against the Philadelphia 76ers in an exhibition game in October 2006, in Cologne, Germany, as part of the EA Sports NBA Europe Live 2006 promotional event.

Russian national team

Holden's biggest achievement came in the FIBA EuroBasket 2007 final game against Spain, where he scored the winning shot that gave Russia the championship. He scored the final winning basket with 2 seconds left in the game. He was also named to the Russian squad for the 2008 Beijing Olympics men's basketball tournament.

Post-playing career

After he retired from playing professional basketball, Holden became a scout, for the NBA's Detroit Pistons.

Personal

On October 20, 2003, Holden became a Russian citizen by decree of President Vladimir Putin. This move was brought about by new Russian Basketball Federation regulations restricting the number of foreigners, and specifically Americans allowable on Russian League teams. In response to the move, CSKA Basketball CEO Sergei Kushchenko hatched the idea of Holden acquiring citizenship. Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov and the Russian State Sports Committee both wrote letters in support of the decree. Holden currently maintains dual American and Russian citizenship.

When giving an interview to mvp.rs, Holden stated that Dušan Ivković is one of the best coaches ever.

Career statistics

Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season. He also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.

Clubs

  • Latvian League Champion: (1999)
  • Belgian League Champion: (2001)
  • Belgian Cup Winner: (2001)
  • Greek League Champion: (2002)
  • Eurobasket.com website's Russian Super League Player of the Year (2003)
  • 9x Russian Championship Champion: (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
  • 4x Russian Cup Winner: (2005, 2006, 2007, 2010)
  • 2x EuroLeague Champion: (2006, 2008)
  • Russian senior national team

  • FIBA EuroBasket  Gold: (2007)
  • References

    Jon Robert Holden Wikipedia


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