Jordan Daniel Morgan is an American professional basketball player for Canton Charge of National Basketball Association Development League.
Background
Morgan was born Jordan Daniel Konkoly in Scott Air Force Base in Illinois to Meredith Morgan née Konkoly and Bobby Deloach on September 15, 1991. His mother raised him as a single mother until she married his adoptive father, Jim in 2001.
Education
Morgan graduated from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy At Detroit Jesuit, Morgan played on the varsity basketball team all four years and was a starter for three.
Career
He played college basketball at Michigan. Jim adopted him when he was 12 years old and he took his last name. Over his high school career, he averaged 14.5 points, 10.1 rebounds, and 2.3 blocks per game.
During his senior year Jordan averaged 20 points per game.
Morgan verbally committed to Michigan on December 18, 2007. Other scholarship offers were from Central Michigan, Oakland, and Xavier.
At the University of Michigan, Morgan redshirted his freshman season on the Michigan Wolverines men"s basketball team due to a knee injury. Morgan then played 142 games for Michigan from the 2010-2011 to 2013-2014 seasons as power forward.
He made 63.1% of his field goal attempts and scored 973 points in his Michigan career.
As a junior on the Michigan team that became runners-up in the 2013 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Division I Basketball Championship Game, Morgan earned Big Ten All-Defensive honors. Morgan completed his Bachelor of Science in Engineering in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan College of Engineering in April 2012, after his third year at Michigan. He was also selected to the Michigan honor society Order of Angell.
In 2014, Morgan earned his Master of Surgery in manufacturing engineering also from Michigan.
When President Barack Obama spoke at the University of Michigan in April 2014 to advocate raising the federal minimum wage, Obama praised Morgan for undertaking graduate studies in engineering and being a student-athlete at Michigan. After going undrafted in the 2014 National Basketball Association draft, Morgan played with the Minnesota Timberwolves for National Basketball Association Summer League.
On July 27, 2014, Morgan signed with Pallacanestro Virtus Roma of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A. In 34 games, he averaged 8.1 points and 6.5 rebounds. On July 23, 2015, Morgan signed with Hermine de Nantes Atlantique.
He averaged 9.3 points and 5.8 rebounds per game.
On January 26, 2016, Morgan signed with Paris-Levallois. On March 22, he parted ways with Paris-Levallois. Three days later, he was acquired by the Canton Charge of the National Basketball Association Development League.