Brendan Haywood

Brendan Haywood is the kind of player whose value never showed up cleanly in a highlight reel, and I respect that. At 213 cm out of North Carolina, he did the unglamorous work in the paint that championship teams quietly depend on, culminating in his 2011 title with Dallas. What I find most interesting is his second act. Plenty of big men fade after retirement, but Haywood reinvented himself as a sharp broadcaster on CBS and SiriusXM. That ability to translate the game into language tells me he always understood basketball more deeply than his frame suggested.

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Name (English)

Brendan Haywood

Name (Japanese)

ブレンダン・ヘイウッド

Reading

ぶれんだん・へいうっど

Born

November 27, 1979 (age 46)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Height

213 cm

Occupation

basketball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Goat

High school

James B. Dudley High School

University

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Official sitehttp://www.bhaywood.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan%20Haywood
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A6%E3%83%83%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q908715

Tags

• New York
• basketball player

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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