My Take
Zach Edey is genuinely one of the most fun players to watch college basketball has produced in years — a 7-foot-4 Canadian kid from Toronto who showed up at Purdue and just broke the sport for a while. In 2023 he swept basically every major college player of the year award you can name: Naismith, Wooden, Oscar Robertson Trophy, AP, NABC, Big Ten, the whole cabinet. That doesn't happen by accident. He's not just a body taking up space under the rim; he's got real post craft and he grinds with this quiet, relentless Taurus energy that wears defenders down. Watching Purdue go all the way to the national championship game in his final season felt like the culmination of something special, even if the title slipped away. He's already in Memphis now at 22 — I'm genuinely curious to see how that size and skill translates to the NBA level.
Overview
Zachry Cheyne Edey ( EE-dee; born May 14, 2002) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Purdue Boilermakers, leading the team to the NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game in his final year.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Zach Edey
- Name (Japanese)
- ザック・イディー
- Reading
- ざっく・いでぃー
- Born
- May 14, 2002 (age 24)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Horse
- Origin
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 224 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- basketball player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Leaside High School
- University
- Purdue University
Awards & achievements
- 2023 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
- 2023 Pete Newell Big Man Award
- 2023 Naismith College Player of the Year
- 2023 John R. Wooden Award
- 2023 Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year
- 2023 NABC Player of the Year
- 2023 Oscar Robertson Trophy
- 2023 Sporting News Men's College Basketball Player of the Year
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.