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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. A small forward, he played with 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 was a member of the U.S. national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, which won a bronze medal. 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.