Phoenix Suns 2010-11 Media Guide - NBA Media Central

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Josh
Childress
Guard/Forward 6-8 210 Current NBA Season: 5
Born: 6/20/83, Harbor City, CA College: Stanford
Acquired: Sign-and-trade with Atlanta 7/14/10 in exchange for
2012 second-round pick.
Status: Signed through 2014-15
International Career
Spent both the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons with the Olympiacos Piraeus in Greece after signing a three-year
deal with the club on July 23, 2008… In 2009-10, led team to a 23-3 record in Greek League play, a berth in the
Greek League Finals and 2010 Greek National Cup… Averaged 15.8 points, 5.4 rebounds and 27.8 minutes in 31
games in Greek League play while shooting 58.6 percent from the field… Averaged 15.2 points, 4.8 rebounds and
31.8 minutes in 20 games in Euroleague play… Scored in double figures 46 of 51 games, including 11 efforts of
20 or more points… Notched a season-high 28 points on Jan. 3 against AEK… In 2008-09, averaged 14.1 points
and 3.9 rebounds in 26.0 minutes while shooting 61.7 percent from the field in Greek League play… Notched 8.8
points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 24.2 minutes in his first experience in Euroleague play that season.
Pro Career
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2005 NBA All-Rookie Second Team… 2009-10 All-Euroleague Second Team while playing in Greece… Two-time
winner of the Atlanta Hawks’ Jason Collier Memorial Trophy, given annually to the individual most committed to
community involvement and outreach.
CAREER NOTES
Acquired by the Suns on July 14, 2010 in a sign-and-trade deal with the Atlanta Hawks, who owned his rights, in
exchange for a 2012 second-round pick… Originally selected with the sixth overall pick of the 2004 NBA Draft by
the Hawks, spent first four career seasons (only four NBA seasons) in Atlanta… Signed with Greek club Olympiacos
Piraeus on July 23, 2008 and spent two seasons there… Owns career NBA averages of 11.1 points, 5.6 rebounds
and 1.8 assists in 31.3 minutes in 285 games (67 starts)… Has averaged double-digit scoring in every professional
season… Has shot 50 percent or better from the field in three of four NBA seasons and is a career 52.2-percent
shooter overall… Last NBA season was 2007-08 when he was one of the league’s top sixth men and helped an
upstart Hawks team end an eight-year playoff drought and push their opening round series with the eventual
champion Boston Celtics to seven games… Was the second-leading scorer of any player who did not start a game
(J.R. Smith) in 2007-08… That season, ranked sixth in the NBA in field goal percentage (career-high .571),
establishing the third-best single-season mark in Atlanta franchise history… Averaged a career-high 13.0 points
in 2006-07… In 2005-06, would have led the league in three-point percentage (.492) and ranked third in field
goal percentage (.552) had he met the statistical minimums to qualify in those categories… Earned All-Rookie
Second Team honors in 2005, becoming the first Hawk to do so since Jason Terry in 2000, after averaging 10.1
points and 6.0 rebounds in 80 games… Selected to play for the United States team at the 2003 Pan American
Games in the Dominican Republic.
College
# 1
Three-year performer at Stanford, averaged 12.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 86 games… 2003-04
Pac-10 Player of the Year, the first in school history… Finalist for the Rupp, Naismith and Wooden Player of the
Year Awards as a junior… First Team All-American as a junior… Led the school to three NCAA Tournament
appearances and the 2003-04 Pac-10 Title… 2004 Pac-10 Tournament MVP… Name appears 17 times in Stanford
record books… In his final season, averaged 15.7 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.7 assists while scoring in double
figures in 22 of 23 games… Named honorable mention Pac-10 Freshman in 2002… Became only the second freshman
to start his first game in head coach Mike Montgomery’s 18-year tenure at the school (Brevin Knight).