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Edward Charles O’Bannon Jr. (born August 14, 1972) is an American former professional basketball artiste in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a talent forward for the UCLA Bruins on their 1995 NCAA championship team. He was prearranged by the New Jersey Nets behind the ninth overall choose of the 1995 NBA draft. After two seasons in the NBA, he continued his professional career for another eight years, mainly playing in Europe.

O’Bannon was the lead litigant in O’Bannon v. NCAA, an antitrust class appear in lawsuit neighboring the National Collegiate Athletic Association which resulted in the discontinuation of NCAA video games.

O’Bannon grew happening in South Los Angeles and attended Verbum Dei High School since graduating from Artesia High School. He averaged 24.6 points, 9.7 rebounds in his senior year at Artesia. He led the school to a 29–2 compilation that year, and they won the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division II acknowledge championship. He was the most valuable player (MVP) at the Dapper Dan Classic, a high school All-Star game, and he was named a McDonald’s High School All-American as well as lucky by Basketball Times as its national high school artist of the year.

O’Bannon originally planned to attend the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), but he did not sign a letter of intent like the academe at the information of UNLV head coach Jerry Tarkanian. However, when UNLV’s men’s basketball program was placed upon probation due to recruiting improprieties, O’Bannon rescinded his loyalty and instead attended UCLA.

Six days previously the official start of practice at UCLA, O’Bannon tore his anterior cruciate ligament as he landed awkwardly on a dunk during a pickup game with other Bruins. He was told he might not be practiced to walk properly again, but eighteen months later, after receiving a graft from a cadaver, he returned to playing basketball. In his first year, he came off the bench in 23 games and averaged fewer than four points while never starting. In his second season in 1993, O’Bannon was named to the first team All-Pacific-10 (Pac-10) Conference team. In his junior year, he was named the team’s MVP and was again first team All-Pac-10. In his senior year in 1994–95, O’Bannon was the key to UCLA’s 1995 NCAA Basketball Championship, scoring 30 points and taking 17 rebounds and was named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player. For the season, he averaged 20.4 points (.533 field-goal percentage, .433 3-point percentage) and 8.3 rebounds, earning him the John R. Wooden Award, USBWA College Player of the Year (now Oscar Robertson Trophy), and the CBS/Chevrolet Player of the Year. He was a consensus first team All-American, Pac-10 co-Player of the Year along gone Damon Stoudamire, first team All-Pac-10 for the third consecutive year, and UCLA’s co-MVP along in the tune of Tyus Edney.