Chavano Rainer "Buddy" Hield is a Bahamian professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association. He was named the Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 2015 and 2016, and in 2016, he won 4 major national player of the year awards—the John R. Wooden Award, the Naismith Award, Sporting News Player of the Year, and the Oscar Robertson Trophy. Hield was decided on with the 6th general pick withinside the 2016 NBA draft through the New Orleans Pelicans, and was traded to the Kings in 2017.
As a freshman at Oklahoma, Hield scored 7.8 point per game, and was the recipient of the group's Most Inspirational Award. He was a second-team All-Big 12 selection as a sophomore as he averaged 16.5 factors, 4.4 rebounds and 1.4 steals per game. He worked on his protection prior to his junior year and increased his offensive game to more of a excessive-volume three-factor shooter.
Hield averaged 17.4 factors and 5.4 rebounds per game as a junior at Oklahoma and shot 41 percentage from the field. He led Oklahoma to a 24–11 report and Sweet 16 berth. Despite being a potential 2015 NBA draft selection, he determined to return for his senior season.
Hield was indexed on the Oscar Robertson Award preseason watchlist as well as the Naismith College Player of the year preseason watchlist.
Hield recorded a profession high of 46 factors in a triple overtime loss to Kansas on January 4, 2016, receiving a standing ovation from the opposing crowd after a postgame interview with Scott Van Pelt. His 46 factors tied the report for most factors scored through an opponent at Allen Fieldhouse. He was named to the 35-man midseason watchlist for the Naismith Trophy on February 11.
Following his senior year at Oklahoma, Hield received the John R. Wooden Award on April 7, 2016 as the great college basketball player for the 2015–16 season, wherein he averaged 25 factors, 5.7 rebounds, assists per game, and led the nation in three-factor shots.
Hield traveled to the town of Tepic in Nayarit, Mexico, from August 1 to 7, 2014 to represent the Bahamas country wide group withinside the 2014 Centrobasket, that's the regional basketball championship of FIBA Americas for the Central American and Caribbean and subzone. Hield's coach withinside the match was Larry Eustachy. He averaged a match-leading 19.8 factors per game and a group-high 6.0 rebounds.
Hield's first child, a daughter, was born in 2017.
In the times after Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas, Hield donated $105,000 to the Hurricane Dorian Relief fund and created a GoFundMe page to assist raise an extra $1,000,000 to assist households devastated through the hurricane there.
