An American basketball player, JayVaughn Pinkston currently plays for theKolossos Rodou of the Greek Basket League. He previously played for Krosno and Mantovana. Pinkston played college basketball for Villanova University and high school basketball for Bishop Loughlin.
The significant source of Pinkston’s earning is his professional basketball career. However, he has not disclosed his exact figure of net worth and salary but looking at his successful career, it is assumed that his net worth is no less than six digit figure.
CAPTION: JayVaughn Pinkston SOURCE: Twitter While at Villanova University, Pinkston used to get paid $150,000 per annum as his salary.
27, Pinkston is a private person when it comes to his personal life. He has maintained his private life in low profile, even he has set his Twitter and Instagram account private. However, he is rumored to be dating an American professional basketball player, Breanna Stewart.
CAPTION: Pinkston's rumored girlfriend Breanna Stewart SOURCE: Player Wives & Girlfriends But none of them has officially confirmed anything. Hence, as per our record, Pinkston is possibly single and unmarried.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, JayVaughn Pinkston was born on 27th November 1991. His birth sign is Sagittarius. Talking about his nationality and ethnicity, Pinkston is African-American. His mother, Kerry Pinkston, welcomed him when she was in high school and has worked several jobs, including the office to raise him as a single mother.
As a child, Pinkston suffered several attacks of asthma. At the age of eleven, Pinkston started off playing basketball after a growth spurt.
Regarding his physique, he stands six feet six inches tall weighs around 109 Kg.
Pinkston enrolled at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, where he played under 3 different head coaches. As a junior, he averaged 39 points in a loss to Christ the King High School.
In his senior years, Pinkston recorded 25 points along with 13 rebounds, 5 assist, and 2 blocks and led his team to the CHASS Class AA intersection final. He was honored “McDonald’s All-American”, “Parade All-American second team” and was also named New York’s Player.
Upon graduation, Pinkston attended Villanova University” as he had already announced it before. During his freshman year, Pinkston didn’t play any of the matches as he was suspended because he was charged with two counts of harassment and assault. Going deep, he got into a fight at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house following a fraternity brother locked him in a laundry room on 7th November 2010.
Pinkston made his Villanova debut in a win over Monmouth where he scored 9 points with 4 rebounds. In his redshirt freshman year, Pinkston averaged 9.6 points as well as 5.2 rebounds per game.
In his second season with Villanova University, Pinkston led the team in recording with 13.3 points per game.
In his junior year, he was named to preseason second-team All-Big East. On 7th December 2013, Pinkston scored a 2nd-high 27 points with 8 rebounds in a 98-68 victory at St. Joseph’s. Pinkston improved his cores to 14.1 points and 6.1 rebounds per game as a junior.
On 14th November 2014, Pinkston made his senior debut against Lehigh where he scored 11 points and 7 rebounds. As a senior, he was ranked # 39 by college basketball, in its preseason ranking of the best player.
Even after his college career, Pinkston has a good bond with his college mates Phil Booth, Henry Lowe, Kris Jenkins.
Pinkston was undrafted in the 2016 NBA Draft. After that, he joined the Brooklyn Nets for the 2015 NBA Summer League.
On 30th July 2016, Pinkston signed to Italian Serie A2 Citroen side Dinamica Mantova. Further, he played the 2017–18 season for the Polish team Krosno. As of now, he is signed to Greek team Kolossos Rodou for the 2018–19 season.
