Trey Burke

Alfonso Clark "Trey" Burke III (born November 12, 1992) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Capitanes de Ciudad de México of the NBA G League.

Burke gave a Verbal commitment to Penn State in 2009 after receiving his first Big Ten Conference offer, but later changed his mind to Michigan.

Burke made the high school varsity team as a freshman, but did not play much.

Between his freshman and second years, his summer league team was defeated when Darian Cartharn scored 35 points against them.

Cartharn had been trained by Anthony Rhodman, so Burke sought his tutelage.

Burke became a regular client of Rhodman's despite his hectic scholastic, training and competition schedules.

He trained regularly with Cartharn twice a day.

Because he was a year younger, he was unable to compete with Sullinger in AAU competition, and Sullinger became an AAU teammate of point guard Aaron Craft.

By the end of the summer Burke got his first scholarship offer, from Akron.

The AAU duo of Sullinger and Craft eventually committed along with two other AAU teammates to Thad Matta's Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team, who also signed point guard Shannon Scott.

As a sophomore, Burke made 5 of 6 free throws in overtime to help his team defeat Dublin Scioto High School by a 54–53 margin in a 2009 OHSAA Division I regional final.

In the state championship game, he made one of two free throws to give Northland a 58–56 lead with 27.6 seconds left in what became a 60–58 win over Princeton High School.

He also made the pass to set up the final game-winning points, although they were scored from the foul line by Sullinger.

During the championship season, Burke averaged 10.7 points and 9.1 assists, and made only 1.7 turnovers per game.

As a freshman at Michigan, he earned the 2011–12 Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Year award and was named to the 2011–12 All-Big Ten 2nd team.

He led the 2011–12 team in points, assists, steals and blocked shots.

He played college basketball for the Michigan Wolverines where in the 2012–13 season, he earned National Player of the Year and led the 2012–13 Wolverines to the championship game of the 2013 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

Shortly after the tournament he declared his eligibility for the draft.

As a sophomore, Burke was a consensus first team 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American.

He also earned Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 2013 and was a unanimous 2012–13 All-Big Ten 1st team selection.

He also earned almost all the possible National Player of the Year awards (Wooden, AP, NABC, Naismith, Robertson and Sports Illustrated), as well as the Bob Cousy Award.

As a sophomore, he led the Big Ten in assists and set the Michigan single-season assists record.

Burke was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the ninth overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft and immediately traded to the Utah Jazz.

As a rookie, he finished third in the NBA Rookie of the Year Award voting.

After three seasons with the Jazz, Burke was traded to the Washington Wizards in July 2016.

After a short stint with the Westchester Knicks of the NBA G League, he joined the New York Knicks in January 2018.

In January 2019, Burke was traded to the Dallas Mavericks.

In July of the same year, he signed with the Philadelphia 76ers.

Burke rejoined the Mavericks in July 2020.

Burke is the son of Ronda and Alfonso Clark "Benji" Burke ll.

He has an older sister, Amber, and a younger sister, Amani.

His parents met while Benji attended Northwest Missouri State University, where he played Division II basketball after spending time at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College.

His mother had just completed her tenure at Ruskin High School.

By the age of five, Burke's local youth basketball league had to change its rules so that he would not keep stealing the ball from the other team.

As a result of his prowess, he was not allowed over half court when the other team had the ball.

He became Jared Sullinger's best friend in fourth grade, but when his mother was transferred to Atlanta in sixth grade they were separated.

The reassignment only lasted one year, however.

At the age of nine, Burke's father made him do everything with his left hand, including brushing his teeth and eating dinner, in order to develop his ambidexterity.

Satch Sullinger, father of forward Jared Sullinger, was the coach at Northland High School, while Burke's father was an assistant coach at Eastmoor Academy.

Burke chose Northland because he felt he had a better chance to succeed due to their personnel.