JJ Redick

JJ Redick is one of those guys who spent his whole career making basketball purists feel things. Coming out of Duke as arguably the best shooter in college basketball history — the 2006 John R. Wooden Award says it all — he had to fight doubters his entire NBA career who swore his game wouldn't translate. It did. Fifteen-plus years of elite catch-and-shoot precision across multiple franchises, always moving, always finding the right spot on the floor, turning "spot-up shooter" into something that actually demanded respect. And then, just when you thought he'd quietly retire, he reinvented himself as one of the more thoughtful voices in basketball media, and eventually landed the Los Angeles Lakers head coaching job — which, no matter how you feel about it, you have to admit is a genuinely wild third act nobody really saw coming from a kid out of Cookeville, Tennessee.

Name (English)

JJ Redick

Name (Japanese)

J.J.レディック

Reading

J.J.れでぃっく

Born

June 24, 1984 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

Origin

Cookeville, Tennessee, United States

Height

193 cm

Occupation

basketball player / basketball coach

High school

Cave Spring High School

University

Duke University

Awards & achievements

• 2006 John R. Wooden Award

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jjredick/
• Xhttps://x.com/jj_redick
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%E3%83%BBJ%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF

Tags

• Tennessee
• basketball player
• basketball coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

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.