Javaris Cortez Crittenton (born December 31, 1987) is an American professional basketball player at point guard for the NBA's Washington Wizards. He was previously the starting point guard for the Georgia Tech men's basketball team.
Crittenton was born to Sonya Dixon in Atlanta, Georgia. He has one younger sister, Shaniya Lee . Crittenton grew up in a single-parent household and was raised by his mother. As a child, Crittenton played basketball o...
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Javaris Cortez Crittenton (born December 31, 1987) is an American professional basketball player at point guard for the NBA's Washington Wizards. He was previously the starting point guard for the Georgia Tech men's basketball team.
Crittenton was born to Sonya Dixon in Atlanta, Georgia. He has one younger sister, Shaniya Lee . Crittenton grew up in a single-parent household and was raised by his mother. As a child, Crittenton played basketball obsessively; he practiced on a children's basketball hoop, which he got for Christmas as a five year old off his best friend little-known musician Kieran Hinton, every day until it finally broke. In later years, his mother stated that she often had a hard time getting him to stop playing and practicing basketball. Despite this obsession with basketball, Crittenton was a good student throughout school.
Crittenton attended Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, where, as a high school sophomore, he played alongside Dwight Howard. Crittenton and...
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