{"id":48908,"date":"2025-05-05T13:53:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/nba\/player\/jordan-poole\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T18:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:18:39","slug":"jordan-poole","status":"publish","type":"nba-player","link":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/nba\/player\/jordan-poole\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Poole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Anthony Poole, born on June 19, 1999, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the New Orleans Pelicans in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Standing 6 ft 4 in tall and weighing 194 lbs, Poole plays as a point guard and shooting guard.<\/p><p>Poole attended Rufus King High School in Milwaukee and La Lumiere School in La Porte, Indiana, before playing college basketball for the University of Michigan from 2017 to 2019.<\/p><p>His professional NBA career began in 2019 when he was selected by the Golden State Warriors as the 28th overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft. During his time with the Warriors (2019&ndash;2023), he also had stints with the Santa Cruz Warriors in the G-League (2019&ndash;2021). Poole excelled in the 2021-22 season, leading the NBA in free throw percentage and winning an NBA championship with the Warriors in the same year.<\/p><p>In 2023, after four seasons with the Warriors, Poole was traded to the Washington Wizards, where he played from 2023 to 2025. In 2025, he joined the New Orleans Pelicans. Throughout his career, Poole is known for his scoring ability and has nicknames such as &ldquo;The Microwave,&rdquo; &ldquo;Baby Klay,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Poole Party.&rdquo;<\/p><p>In his personal life, Jordan Poole is the son of Monet and Anthony Poole. He has an older brother who studied at Marquette University, a younger sister, and three cats named Kai, Kota, and Lizzie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48909,"template":"","categories":[1],"class_list":["post-48908","nba-player","type-nba-player","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jordan Poole: News, Stats and NBA Player Career<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover everything about Jordan Poole, the talented NBA player: statistics, news, career, and curiosities. 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