Jon Scheyer Siblings: Meet His 2 Siblings: Jon Scheyer, also known as Jonathan James Scheyer was born on August 24, 1987. He’s an American basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach for the Duke Blue Devils of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Jon Scheyer Siblings: Meet His 2 Siblings
Jon Scheyer is not the only child of his parents; Laury and Jim Scheyer. The Duke Blue Devils coach is the youngest of three children. He grew up with a brother called, Brooke Scheyer and a sister named, Jenifer Scheyer. Since Jon keeps his personal life away from the eyes of the public, we do not have much information about his family at this time
As a player, Scheyer led his high school team to an Illinois state basketball championship as a high school All-American.
The fourth-leading scorer in Illinois high school history, he led his team to a state championship in 2005, and was named Illinois Mr. Basketball in 2006
Scheyer attended Duke College, where he moved from shooting guard to point guard toward the end of the 2008–09 season.
At the end of the 2008–09 season, he was the Most Valuable Player of the 2009 ACC men’s basketball tournament.
In his senior year in 2009–10 as Duke’s captain, he led the team to ACC regular season and tournament championships and the NCAA national championship
He was a 2010 consensus All-American (Second Team), a unanimous 2009–10 All-ACC First Team selection, and named to the 2010 ACC All-Tournament First Team.
Scheyer set the ACC all-time single-season record for minutes played in 2009–10 (with 1,470, passing Dennis Scott)
He played on the Miami Heat’s 19-man 2010 NBA Las Vegas Summer League team. Scheyer hit the game-winning shot in the team’s first game
In the team’s second game, however, in mid-July, he was poked in the eye by Golden State’s Joe Ingles, suffering a serious, life-changing right eye injury
On September 22, 2010, Scheyer accepted a training camp invitation with the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers and on October 9, he was waived.
On February 17, 2011, Scheyer signed a contract with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, the Houston Rockets D-League team, which had 16 games left in their season.
In June 2011, he signed a two-year contract with Euroleague contender, Maccabi Tel Aviv, the European League’s 2011 runner-up and five-time champion
Scheyer began playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv when its season started on October 1, 2011. He agreed to play with the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2012 Orlando Summer League.
Scheyer played in five games in the summer league, averaging 5.8 points and 1.4 assists per game. After his summer league stint 2012, he signed for Gran Canaria 2014 in the Spanish league.
After handing his boots, he was added to Duke’s men’s basketball staff by head coach, Mike Krzyzewski as a special assistant after the resignation of assistant coach Chris Collins.
In April 2014, Scheyer was promoted to a full assistant coach after Steve Wojciechowski departed from the Blue Devils staff.
He was promoted to co-associate head coach along with Nate James after head coach Jeff Capel was appointed head coach at the University of Pittsburgh.
On June 2, 2021, it was announced that Scheyer would become Duke’s next head coach after Mike Krzyzewski’s retirement following the end of the 2021–22 season.
After Krzyzewski retired, Scheyer officially became head coach in April 2022. In his first season, he won the ACC tournament before bowing out in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Source: Ghgossip.com
