Benjamin "Ben" Gordon (born April 4, 1983) is a British-American professional basketball player in the NBA, who currently plays for the Detroit Pistons. In college he played both shooting guard and point guard for the University of Connecticut.

He is the only player to receive the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award as a rookie. Gordon is the Bulls' all-time leader in three point field goals.

Ben Gordon was born in London, England, UK to Jamaican parents. He moved to the United States shortly after his birth, and grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. Gordon played high school basketball for the Mount Vernon Knights, and helped lead the team to the 2000 New York State Public and Federation Championships. Gordon was an All-State player at Mount Vernon and a top 40 national recruit. He was heavily recruited by Seton Hall, but decided to attend UConn. While playing college basketball with Connecticut, Gordon helped lead the Huskies to the 2004 NCAA championship along with second overall pick, Emeka Okafor. Gordon was picked 3rd overall by the Chicago Bulls in the 2004 NBA Draft and in the 2007–08 season led the team in points scored per game.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Ben Gordon." | Wiki History
Grain futures mostly lower Wednesday (3 min)
British road sign 'only' has it backwards (9 min)
80,000 caught in Facebook bait-and-switch (12 min)
Women to row Atlantic naked (17 min)
Police: Drunk man slept at wrong house (24 min)
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News (25 min)
Library book returned after 60 years (32 min)
fark
Neighbors beg a woman to stop feeding the vultures. Wish she would just carrion with her life
Woman who drank herself unconscious sues hospital for resulting leg amputations; not expected to...
Never visited any remote Pacific islands like Tahiti before? Better hurry before they're drowned...
Today's Fark-ready headline: Boise boy licks pole, gets stuck
Australia on collision course with giant iceberg. Crikey
Animal survives in wild