Dylan Harper

CTL-E-5901 · Person · other · 2006–present

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Combined Graph record U-07146 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5901.

Dylan Harper, born Dylan Robert Harper on 2 March 2006 in New Jersey, is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs. He is the son of Ron Harper, the five-time NBA champion guard, and Maria Pizarro Harper, who emigrated from Bataan in the Philippines at age seven, played Division I basketball at the University of New Orleans and coached her son from childhood through high school. A McDonald's All-American at Don Bosco Prep, Harper played one season at Rutgers, averaging 19.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.0 assists and earning All-Big Ten honors. San Antonio selected him second overall in the 2025 NBA draft, making him one of the most prominent Filipino-descended players ever drafted. As a rookie he was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2026 and emerged as a key rotation guard in San Antonio's run to the 2026 NBA Finals, including a 24-point, 11-rebound, seven-steal game against Oklahoma City in the conference finals.

The record

• Also known as: Dylan Robert Harper

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 9; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Dylan Harper entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5901 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1025 (Basketball Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — dual heritage documented factually — son of Ron Harper (African American, five-time NBA champion) and Maria Pizarro Harper (Filipina, from Bataan), per ESPN Philippines and the Philippine News Agency.. Vital status: LIVING — a rotation guard in San Antonio's June 2026 Finals run and on the Spurs' 2026-27 roster (ESPN Philippines, 2026). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): No. 2 overall pick in 2025; 19.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.0 assists at Rutgers; NBA All-Rookie First Team 2026; 13.1 points per game across 17 playoff games in 2026 (ESPN Philippines; Wikipedia) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: NBA, Spurs and Rutgers press photography of Harper exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5901-dylan-harper.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). 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 (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• ESPN Philippines, "Why an NBA championship for Jordan Clarkson or Dylan Harper will mean everything to the Philippines" (2026) — son of five-time champion Ron Harper and Filipina mother Maria Pizarro; selected No. 2 by San Antonio in 2025 out of Rutgers; averaged 13.1 points across 17 playoff games in the 2026 Finals run, including 24 points, 11 rebounds and seven steals in conference-finals Game 1 — http://www.espn.ph/nba/story/_/id/48952657/nba-finals-san-antonio-spurs-new-york-knicks-dylan-harper-jordan-clarkson-filipinos (primary source · build store)
• Philippine News Agency, "Fil-Am Harper taken 2nd overall in NBA Draft" (26 June 2025) — son of Ron Harper and his Filipino wife Maria; drafted second overall by San Antonio immediately after Cooper Flagg; teamed with Victor Wembanyama — https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1252970 (build store)
• Wikipedia, "Dylan Harper" — born 2 March 2006 in New Jersey; Don Bosco Prep and Rutgers (19.4 points per game); drafted second overall in 2025; NBA All-Rookie First Team 2026 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Harper (build store)

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