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Jordan Farmar

Jordan Farmar is an American-Israeli former basketball player who won 2 NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, in 2009 and 2010.

born 19862 NBA titles with the LakersUCLA point guardPlaying for Maccabi Tel Aviv

Born: 30 November 1986, Los Angeles
Occupation: basketball player
Education: William Howard Taft Charter High School, University of California, Los Angeles, Birmingham High School

Jordan Farmar was born in 1986 in Los Angeles

Farmar was born in Los Angeles in 1986. His father, Damon Farmar, played minor league baseball, and his mother is Jewish. His parents divorced when he was 2, and his mother married Yehuda Kolani, an Israeli from Tel Aviv.

He attended Hebrew school and had his bar mitzvah at Temple Judea in Tarzana. At Taft High School he scored 54 points in one game and led the school to its first Los Angeles City title. He was named the Los Angeles Times Player of the Year.

He played college basketball for UCLA from 2004 to 2006 and was national freshman of the year in 2004-05. In 2006 he led UCLA to the national championship game, which it lost to Florida.

The Lakers drafted him 26th overall in 2006. In 2007 he became the first player to play in a D-League game and an NBA game on the same day. He won NBA titles with the Lakers in 2009 and 2010, then joined the New Jersey Nets.

During the 2011 NBA lockout he signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv. He later played for Anadolu Efes, the Lakers again, the Clippers, Darüşşafaka, Maccabi Tel Aviv, the Memphis Grizzlies and the Sacramento Kings.