Meyers Leonard

Who they were

Meyers Patrick Leonard is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Illinois Fighting Illini before being selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 11th overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft. After spending his first seven seasons with the Trail Blazers, he was traded to the Miami Heat in the 2019 off-season. He reached the NBA Finals with the Heat in 2020. No NBA player who is at least 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) has a career three point shot field goal percentage of 40%,

Early life

Educated at: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Early life Leonard, born in Woodbridge, Virginia , [ 1 ] grew up in Robinson, Illinois , a small town in southeastern Illinois. When he was six years old, his father James, a golf pro, was killed in a freak bicycle accident. His mother Tracie, once an athlete who would run upwards of 10 miles a day, had been largely housebound since her husband's death, due to an old horseback injury and subsequent disc surgery that left her with crippling pain. [ 2 ] When he was in second grade,

Why this date

Meyers Leonard appears on our February 27 calendar for 1992 as a birth entry.