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Buddy Hield (born December 17, 1992) is a Bahamian basketball player who currently plays for the Indiana Pacers in the National Basketball Association. Recruited to play college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners, Hield went on to win the John R. Wooden Award in his senior year as the best college basketball player for the 2015–16 season, in which he averaged 25 points, 5.7 rebounds and two assists per game. He was selected by the New Orleans Pelicans in the 2016 NBA draft as the sixth overall pick, before moving to the Sacramento Kings in early 2017 following a trade. After five years in Sacramento, he joined the Pacers in 2022 in another trade deal. This photograph, taken in January 2016, shows Hield playing for the Oklahoma Sooners against the Texas Tech Red Raiders at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Oklahoma.Photograph credit: ChristopherM01