Ben McLemore III is an American basketball player by profession who plays in the position of Shooting Guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) tournaments. He was born on February 11, 1993 at St. Louis, Missouri. He was born to Ben McLemore II and Sonya Reid. Apart from him, his parents have five other children. He has 2 brothers named Keith McLemore and Kevin McLemore, and 3 sisters among which April Coleman is his elder sister.
He started his high school basketball from Wellston High School. He shifted to both Oak Hill Academy and Christian Life Center in his senior years after when his school got shut down. After his high school, he enrolled to University of Kansas for his further studies. He started his professional career in 2013 where he was picked seventh overall by the Sacramento Kings in 2013 NBA draft. He is still one of the player members for the team.
The player No. 23 holds amazing stats with the total game played of 232 with the PPG (Point per game) of 9.7 however, there is still a bit space for the improvement. He has achieved various career highlights and awards which are quite impressive for his age.
Moving on to his personal life, unlike most of the top players he has been through a very rough stage. His family was been suffering from poverty where they had to feed ten members in the family. His mother used to work nights and his big brother used to bikes so that he can support the family. There were days when they won’t even get anything to eat for days. However, these difficulties never broke him instead it motivated him to work hard on his skills and get his family a better life which he did indeed.
Apart from his career and family, we never got to hear anything about his love affairs. He is still busy working for his career that he might not be getting enough time for working in his love life. Well, there might come a phase where we can get to hear about Mrs. McLemore in future but until then we can enjoy watching his games.
McLemore has been sponsored by many big companies. Adidas is one the main sponsor for him.
Ben has been involved in various charity works and events.
Ben McLemore has a net worth of more than $ 12 million and earns a very attractive salary of around $ 3 million per year. The talented player has an amazing height of 6 ft. 5 in. with the weight of 88 kg.
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