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Luol Deng was born on the 16th of April 1985 in Wau, in what is now South Sudan. His family fled the Second Sudanese Civil War, eventually settling in Brixton, South London. After excelling at Blair Academy in New Jersey and one season at Duke University, he was selected seventh overall in the 2004 NBA draft and traded to the Chicago Bulls.
Luol Deng was selected to the NBA All-Star Game twice, in 2012 and 2013, both times as a reserve for the Chicago Bulls. His 2012 selection marked the first time two Bulls players had been named All-Stars simultaneously since Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen in 1997.
Deng has served as president of the South Sudan Basketball Federation since November 2019. He has also coached the South Sudan national team, first as head coach for the FIBA AfroBasket 2021 qualifiers and later as an assistant coach. For his contributions to the sport there, he was compared to Jerry West by Slam magazine.
Deng was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to basketball. Loughborough University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2010, and he appears on one of the Brixton Pound's community currency notes. He was also included in the 2020 Powerlist as one of the most influential people in the UK of African and African-Caribbean descent.
After signing a four-year, $72 million contract with the Lakers in July 2016, Deng was benched following Magic Johnson's arrival as president of basketball operations in February 2017, with the team prioritizing younger players. He played in only one game during the entire 2017-18 season and reached a buyout agreement with the Lakers on the 1st of September 2018.
When the Bulls traded Deng to Cleveland on the 7th of January 2014, he was the fifth-longest-tenured player and the fourth-leading scorer in franchise history. He had spent ten seasons with Chicago after being drafted in 2004.