American college basketball player Lamont Butler Jr. is a guard for the Kentucky Wildcats, as of March 2025. The team competes in the Southeastern Conference of the NCAA Division I. He is a graduate student as of March 2025, according to his roster on the Kentucky university website. In the 2020-21 season at San Diego State, Butler Jr. competed in 28 games with 2 starts while registering 4.3 points including 1.7 rebounds in 12.4 minutes per contest. He was recognized as the only freshman to play in every game, as per his college roster. He also led his class in each statistical category. He scored five times in double-figures which also included a season-high 13 points while playing at Utah State. Butler Jr. was honored with multiple awards like Mountain West Scholar-Athlete, Academic All-Mountain West, and San Diego State Scholar-Athlete that season.
In the following season, Butler Jr. played 27 games and started in 25 of them. He recorded 7.3 points including 2.1 rebounds in 25.4 minutes per contest. Butler Jr. suffered a wrist injury, because of which, he had to miss five games. In the 2022-23 season, Butler Jr. started in 38 games while appearing in 39 contests. He registered 8.8 points and 2.7 rebounds in 25.9 minutes per contest, adding 126 assists, 57 steals and four blocks. While playing against Furman, he registered 12 points, six rebounds, and six assists to become the second Aztec to do so in an NCAA Tournament, as per his college roster.
Lamont Butler Jr. hometown
Lamont Butler Jr. is from Moreno Valley, California, United States according to his roster profile on the Kentucky University website.
Butler Jr. attended Riverside Poly High School and was a four-star rated recruit by ESPN. He ended his high school career by recording 91 wins. Additionally, his name was enlisted in 2020’s top-50 point guards by ESPN nationally, as per his college roster. Butler Jr. was honored with Ivy League Most Valuable Player in his senior year. He also achieved a second-team Cal-Hi Sports all-state performer honor and a four-time All-Ivy League and all-state performer as well as three-time all-county and all-CIF. He was Poly's all-time leading scorer after he registered more than 1800 career points by adding 559 assists with 271 steals.
Lamont Butler Jr. nationality
Lamont Butler Jr. is an American by nationality.
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