My Take
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.
Overview
Brandon Xavier Ingram (born September 2, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a two-time NBA All-Star and was named the NBA Most Improved Player in 2020. He was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the second overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft, and was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team in the same season.
1. Profile
- 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 28)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Ox
- Origin
- Kinston, North Carolina, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 211 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- basketball player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Kinston High School
- University
- Duke University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.