Donovan Clingan

Donovan Clingan is the kind of young big man I find genuinely exciting. Born in 2004 in Bristol, Connecticut, he stayed close to home at UConn and walked away with back-to-back national titles in 2023 and 2024, which is no small thing. A college winner of that pedigree heading to the Portland Trail Blazers is a story I want to follow closely. There is something old-school and admirable about a center who plants himself in the paint and protects the rim. The pro game will test him, but a player who already knows how to win has the one trait you cannot teach. His best is ahead.

Name (English)

Donovan Clingan

Name (Japanese)

ドノバン・クリンガン

Reading

どのばん・くりんがん

Born

February 23, 2004 (age 22)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

Origin

Bristol, Connecticut, United States

Occupation

basketball player

High school

Bristol Central High School

University

University of Connecticut

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/donovanclingan/
• Xhttps://x.com/clingan_donovan
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan%20Clingan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%8E%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117268111

Tags

• Connecticut
• basketball player

Last updated

2026-06-18

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.