Brandon Ingram

Brandon Ingram is one of those players who genuinely makes you do a double-take — the guy is 6'7" of pure wire, and yet he glides through NBA defenses like he's operating on a different physics engine than everyone else. Growing up in Kinston, North Carolina (a town that has punched way above its weight in producing NBA talent), he went to Duke and then got scooped up second overall by the Lakers in 2016 — a lot of pressure for a skinny kid who looked like a stiff breeze could knock him over. But he quietly kept developing, and by 2020 he'd won Most Improved Player with the Pelicans and earned his first All-Star nod, which felt genuinely earned rather than a courtesy call. His handle and mid-range game for a player his size are honestly kind of absurd, and I think the basketball world still hasn't fully settled on where his ceiling lands.

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Name (English)

Brandon Ingram

Name (Japanese)

ブランドン・イングラム

Reading

ぶらんどん・いんぐらむ

Born

September 2, 1997 (age 29)

Origin

Kinston, North Carolina, United States

Height

203 cm

Occupation

basketball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

High school

Kinston High School

University

Duke University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/1ngram4/
• Xhttps://x.com/b_ingram13
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon%20Ingram
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19880865

Tags

• North Carolina
• basketball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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