Jodie Meeks

Jodie Meeks is a professional basketball player playing in the National Basketball Association. Meeks plays for the Philadelphia 76ers in the Atlantic Division, in the NBA Eastern Conference.

Meeks was born on August 21st, 1987 in Georgia, and grew up there. He attended Norcross High School where he played on the basketball team, before going to play college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats in December 2006.

Standing at 6-4, Meeks plays shooting guard for the 76ers. Having been drafted with the 41st pick by the Milwaukee Bucks in 2009, Meeks got traded to the 76ers mid-way through the season along with Francisco Elson, in exhange for Royal Ivey and Primo Brezec.

Although Meeks is now a professional basketball player, the highlight of his career came on January 13, 2009, where he scored 54 points against arch-rival Tennessee to break Kentucky's single game scoring record (previously held by Dan Issel, and also dropped in 10 three pointers to break Tony Delk's record of nine three pointers in a single game.http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4646/career;_ylt=ApdWHE6PcG2d_GuxEI7jU8mkvLYF

Starting in his rookie season, expectations were low about Meeks, having been selected mid-way through the second round of the NBA Draft. Playing for the Milwaukee Bucks for the first half of the season, Meeks managed to get on the court in almost every game, and managed to register a career high 21 points, and a career high 31 minutes in an away loss to the Portland Trail Blazers.

After Meeks was traded to the 76ers, he started to see a slight rise in production and minutes. As the 76ers season started to go into decline and the NBA Playoffs were out of question, Meeks started to consistently register double digits in points. In the second to last game of the season versus the Miami Heat, Meeks scored 21 points on 8-12 shooting, going 5-9 from three-point range in 23 minutes of action.http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=4003