![]() ![]() During the spring 2014, Ingram represented the Stackhouse Elite for the Norman Parker Showcase at the Suwanee Sports Academy where he earned MVP honors after leading the team to the championship. During the season, the Vikings went undefeated in their conference with a 26–4 overall record while Ingram was averaging 19.5 points, 9.1 rebounds, 2.5 blocks and 1.5 assists per game and was named Eastern Regional Most Valuable Player (MVP). ![]() In his junior year, Ingram led the Kinston Vikings to its third consecutive state title where he scored 28 points to go along with his 16 rebounds against North Rowan. ![]() Ingram in the 2015 McDonald's All-American Game After shining for the Stackhouse Elite team, the 6-foot-7-inch (2.01 m) junior entered the year with high expectations and received a large amount of attention from college coaches who were lined up to recruit Ingram to a Division I school. Prior to the start of Ingram's junior year, he began to show improvement during the 2013 summer while playing AAU basketball. As a sophomore, Kinston defeated Cuthbertson for the second year in a row to win the state title and Ingram averaged 12.4 points per game (ppg), 3.9 rebounds per game (rpg) and 1.5 assists per game (apg). In his first year with the Kinston Vikings, the team defeated Cuthbertson High School by three points to win the 2012 NCHSAA 2-A boys' basketball state championship in Reynolds Coliseum. High school career ĭuring his freshman year at Kinston, he came off the bench on the varsity basketball team but along the way his role grew. Ingram played all four years of his high school basketball career at Kinston High School and helped lead Kinston to four straight state championships during his time there. He grew up knowing the rules of the game". His father was a high school and collegiate referee who stated Brandon "was trained correctly, both mentally and physically. Those influences "took me to the next level", said Ingram, whose foundation as a player came from his father. By the time Brandon reached eighth grade, Stackhouse became Ingram's Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) coach and mentored the young basketball player. His brother, known as Bo, went on to play college basketball for South Plains College (2008–2010) and UT Arlington (2010–2012). He described this experience as "the best thing that ever happened to my game". Before Ingram was a teenager, his brother allowed him to play with him and his older friends. Kinston had an extremely high crime rate, but Ingram kept his focus on basketball. While Ingram grew up in a one-story house on Highland Avenue in Kinston, his brother Donovan grew up in a different house but would spend weekends with Brandon, teaching him basketball. Stackhouse, an ex- NBA star and Kinston native, forged a friendship with Ingram's father on the court. When he moved back home to Kinston, his father started playing pickup games with a young Jerry Stackhouse, who was looking to play locally against older and more experienced players to help him elevate his game. Before that, Donald was a would-be hoops star, pushing his way through the semi-pro leagues. Ingram's father started his career as a police officer and a manager of a local gym, but he is now full-time at a welding plant, where he makes forklifts. He shares a father with Donovan and a mother with Brittany. He has two half-siblings, an older brother, Donovan, and an older sister, Brittany. He is the son of Donald and Joann Ingram. Ingram was born on September 2, 1997, in Kinston, North Carolina. He played three seasons with the Lakers before being traded to New Orleans in 2019 in a package for All-Star Anthony Davis. After the season, Ingram decided to forgo his remaining college eligibility and declared for the NBA draft. He played one season of college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils, where he was named Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year. Ingram had a successful high school career in North Carolina, where he won state titles each of his four years of high school and was named North Carolina's Mr. He was traded to New Orleans and became a first-time NBA All-Star and was named the NBA Most Improved Player in 2020 during his first season with the Pelicans. He was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the second overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft, and was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team.
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