CULTURETECHLENSWill Bynum
VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)
Combined Graph record U-06984 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5708.
Will Bynum, born William Bynum on January 4, 1983, in Chicago, Illinois, is an American former professional basketball player and coach. At Crane High School he was named Chicago Public Player of the Year in 2001. He played college basketball at Arizona (2001–03) and Georgia Tech (2003–05) before going undrafted in 2005. Bynum was the NBA D-League Rookie of the Year with Roanoke in 2006, played briefly for Golden State, and won an Israeli league championship and Finals MVP award with Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2007. His longest NBA tenure came with the Detroit Pistons from 2008 to 2014, followed by Guangdong in China, Washington in 2015, the Windy City Bulls in 2016–17, and a final stop in Turkey in 2018. He appeared in 360 NBA games, scoring 2,921 points, and in 2025 joined the Birmingham Squadron of the NBA G League as an assistant coach.
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Will Bynum, born William Bynum on January 4, 1983, in Chicago, Illinois, is an American former professional basketball player and coach. At Crane High School he was named Chicago Public Player of the Year in 2001. He played college basketball at Arizona (2001–03) and Georgia Tech (2003–05) before going undrafted in 2005.
The record
- Also known as: William Bynum
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Fill 500 Lists Wave 4, Tier 1 — 747 Program). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Will Bynum entity in the live graph at 3,409 entities (exact/normalized/alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5708 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Fill 500 Comedians gap #14 — a professional basketball player on the mixed civic list, stated openly. Vital status: LIVING — verified by his 2025 Birmingham Squadron assistant-coach appointment and no death report in any source consulted. Conflict shown, not blended: one blog account phrased Georgia Tech's Final Four run loosely; Georgia Tech's UConn final run was 2004, inside Bynum's 2003–05 tenure — the description follows the documented tenure dates only and makes no tournament claim. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): 360 NBA games, 2,921 points — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate named in the packet); chart FILLED; video HELD; audio HELD. Blocked edges documented in the packet: University of Arizona and Georgia Tech (attendance documented, but neither school has a graph entity, so no has_alumnus edge can land); Birmingham Squadron (no graph entity for the assistant-coach role); Golden State, Washington, Maccabi Tel Aviv (no graph entities). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Persons receive no maps (media-layer rule carried from the CULTGRAPH packets).) | visual_assets = HELD: No Commons file page could be read at file-page level in this pass, so the slot is HELD rather than cleared on | chart = FILLED (Built only from this record's own sourced, dated facts; data table printed in the packet.) | video = HELD (No CTL Short for this subject — checked against the CTL Shorts Link Map catalog (2026-10-15) by full name and ) | audio = HELD (No matching-entity audio with a verified rights basis located in this pass (no CTL-owned audio; third-party st)
Relationships
- Detroit Pistons — played for
Bynum played for the Detroit Pistons from 2008 to 2014, his longest NBA tenure.
Sources
- Wikipedia, “Will Bynum” — born January 4, 1983, Chicago; Crane High School, Chicago Public Player of the Year 2001; Arizona 2001–03, Georgia Tech 2003–05; undrafted 2005; Roanoke Dazzle D-League Rookie of the Year 2006; Golden State 2006; Maccabi Tel Aviv 2006–08 (Israeli champion, Finals MVP 2007); Detroit Pistons 2008–14; Guangdong; Washington Wizards 2015; Windy City Bulls 2016–17; Yeşilgiresun 2018; 360 NBA games, 2,921 points — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Bynum (build store)
- Land of Basketball, Will Bynum player profile — NBA team sequence and season statistics corroborating the Wikipedia line — landofthebasketball.com, accessed 2026-10-16 (build store)
- Birmingham Squadron / NBA G League announcements (2025) — Bynum on the Squadron coaching staff as an assistant coach; vital-status and current-role evidence, accessed 2026-10-16 (build store)
Photograph · rights-cleared record, CultureTechLens Photo Rights Log
Will Bynum — Hawks at Wizards
Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons · view at source
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