Richard Jefferson

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Birth Name: Richard Allen Jefferson

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Birth: June 21, 1980

Ethnicity: African-American

Richard Jefferson is an American professional basketball player and sports analyst on ESPN. He was a member of the U.S. national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, which won a bronze medal. He has played for the New Jersey Nets, the Milwaukee Bucks, the San Antonio Spurs, the Golden State Warriors, the Utah Jazz, the Dallas Mavericks, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is 6′7″.

He is the son of Christian missionaries. He was raised in Phoenix, Arizona.

Richard’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Marshall.