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Josh Childress : biography

June 20, 1983 –

Joshua Malik "Josh" Childress (born June 20, 1983) is an American professional basketball player. He has previously played with the Atlanta Hawks, Phoenix Suns and Brooklyn Nets of the NBA, and Olympiacos Piraeus in the Greek A1 League and the Euroleague.

European career statistics

Euroleague

|- | style="text-align:left;"| 2008–09 | style="text-align:left;"| Olympiacos Piraeus | 16 || 15 || 24.3 || .470 || .158 || .636 || 4.6 || 1.1 || 1.1 || .5 || 8.8 || 10.4 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2009–10 | style="text-align:left;"| Olympiacos Piraeus | 20 || 20 || 32.3 || .523 || .328 || .647 || 4.8 || 1.9 || 1.1 || .6 || 15.2 || 15.3 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:left;"| Career | style="text-align:left;"| | 36 || 35 || 28.7 || .504 || .286 || .643 || 4.7 || 1.5 || 1.1 || .6 || 12.4 || 13.1

Greek League

(Note: The Greek League’s official complete season stats are the regular season and playoff stats combined together.)

Season League Team GP MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2008-09 Greek League Olympiacos 25 26.8 .543 .329 .747 3.8 0.8 1.2 .7 13.5
2009-10 Greek League Olympiacos 32 27.5 .586 .325 .697 5.3 1.4 0.9 .6 15.3

NBA career statistics

Regular season

|- | align="left" | | align="left" | Atlanta | 80 || 44 || 29.7 || .470 || .232 || .823 || 6.0 || 1.9 || .9 || .4 || 10.1 |- | align="left" | | align="left" | Atlanta | 74 || 10 || 30.4 || .552 || .492 || .766 || 5.2 || 1.8 || 1.2 || .5 || 10.0 |- | align="left" | | align="left" | Atlanta | 55 || 13 || 36.8 || .504 || .338 || .795 || 6.2 || 2.3 || 1.0 || .6 || 13.0 |- | align="left" | | align="left" | Atlanta | 76 || 0 || 29.9 || .571 || .367 || .807 || 4.9 || 1.5 || .9 || .6 || 11.8 |- | align="left" | | align="left" | Phoenix | 54 || 3 || 16.6 || .565 || .063 || .492 || 2.9 || .8 || .6 || .4 || 5.0 |- | align="left" | | align="left" | Phoenix | 34 || 0 || 14.4 || .485 || .167 || .000 || 2.8 || 1.0 || .4 || .2 || 2.9 |- | align="left" | | align="left" | Brooklyn | 14 || 0 || 7.1 || .286 || .333 || .500 || 1.1 || .4 || .1 || .1 || 1.0 |- | align="left" | Career | align="left" | | 387 || 70 || 26.9 || .522 || .329 || .779 || 4.8 || 1.6 || .9 || .5 || 9.2

Playoffs

|- | align="left" | 2008 | align="left" | Atlanta | 7 || 0 || 29.3 || .524 || .000 || .500 || 5.7 || 1.6 || .1 || .7 || 7.1 |- | align="left" | Career | align="left" | | 7 || 0 || 29.3 || .524 || .000 || .500 || 5.7 || 1.6 || .1 || .7 || 7.1

College career

Josh Childress then played three seasons of college basketball with Stanford, where he was named an AP First Team All American, an All-American Consensus Second Team member, the Pac-10 Conference Player of the Year, and the Pac-10 Conference Tournament MVP as a junior in 2004. He then declared for the 2004 NBA Draft and was a first-round pick, number six overall, the highest a Stanford player has ever been drafted.

Professional career

NBA

During the 2004–05 NBA season, Childress emerged as one of two promising rookie talents for the Atlanta Hawks, along with Josh Smith; as the season went on, the two showed improved play, minutes, and production. Childress ranked third among rookies in double-doubles in the 2004-05 season, behind only Emeka Okafor and Dwight Howard. He was also voted to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team.