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One collector is trying to find a single signature from every man who ever played for the Jazz — all 370 of them, from the 1974 New Orleans team to today. For many of them, this page is the only one on the internet. Here is Miye Oni: what he did on the floor, a few things most people never knew, and every card that carries his name. If you own something he signed — or you know who might — there is a note at the foot of this page.
Nobody recruited him — Division III Williams College was his only real option out of Viewpoint School in Los Angeles. Yale coach James Jones spotted his highlight tape in 2015, and after a prep year at Suffield Academy, Oni blossomed into the 2019 Ivy League Player of the Year and a three-time All-Ivy selection. That improbable climb carried him to Utah, where he spent his NBA years from 2019 to 2022.
Basketball started early — a toy hoop at age two, a YMCA league at five. His parents Opeyemi and Oludotun emigrated from Nigeria, his father working as an engineer and professor. Oni most recently played for Osos de Manati in Puerto Rico.
HOW HE CAME & WENTGolden State took him 58th overall in 2019 and sold his rights to Utah. All 80 of his NBA games came in a Jazz uniform. On January 4, 2022 the club sent him and a second-round pick to Oklahoma City to trim its luxury-tax bill and open roster spots.
- Full name
- Olumiye Dimolu Oni
- Utah Jazz tenure
- 2019–22
- Position
- Guard
- Born
- 1997, Los Angeles
- Height
- 6′5″ (196 cm)
- Weight
- 205 lb (93 kg)
- College
- Yale
- Drafted
- 2019, 2nd round (No. 58), Golden State
A card. A photo. A program. A page from an old autograph book. Anything he put his name on.
You do not need to know what it is. Take a photo with your phone and send it to me. I will tell you what you have, for free, whether or not anything comes of it. I pay the postage both ways. I answer every message myself, usually the same day.
With the Jazz
MIYE ONI · 2019–22 · PER GAME| SEASON | TEAM | G | MPG | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019–20 | UTA | 10 | 10.9 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | .375 | .368 | .800 |
| 2020–21 | UTA | 54 | 9.6 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | .354 | .341 | .833 |
| 2021–22 | UTA | 16 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | .222 | .125 | .000 |
| JAZZ TOTAL | 3 SEASONS | 80 | 8.4 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | .350 | .330 | .750 |
Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗ · Wikipedia ↗
Did you know
MIYE ONI · 8 NOTES- Represented Nigeria internationally.
- At Suffield he once poured in 52 points with 11 three-pointers, breaking Shabazz Napier's National Prep School Invitational record.
- He hit the go-ahead three as Nigeria stunned the United States in a warm-up game before the Tokyo Olympics.
- He was the first Ivy League player drafted since 1995 and the first from Yale since Chris Dudley in 1987.
- He started shooting at age two on a toy hoop and cried whenever his father made him stop.
- Yale let him finish his political science degree after he was drafted, and he came back to walk at commencement in 2022.
- He is one of two founding ambassadors for Connecticut CASA, which trains volunteers to speak up for vulnerable children in court.
- Sending him to Oklahoma City with a second-round pick, rather than waiving him, cut about $2.4 million from Utah's luxury-tax bill.