Jared McCain

CTL-E-5915 · Person · other · 2004–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07160 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5915.

Jared McCain, born Jared Dane McCain on 20 February 2004 in Sacramento, California, is an American shooting guard for the Oklahoma City Thunder. His father, Lance McCain, is African-American, and McCain — a consensus five-star recruit at Centennial High School in Corona, twice California's Gatorade Player of the Year and the state's Mr. Basketball in 2023 — has also acknowledged a partial Filipino heritage. At Duke he made the ACC All-Rookie team in his single season, and Philadelphia selected him 16th overall in the 2024 NBA draft. As a rookie he led all rookies in scoring at 15.3 points per game and was named Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month for October-November 2024 before a December 2024 injury ended his season on 13 December. After a limited role in Philadelphia in 2025-26, he was traded to Oklahoma City at the February 2026 deadline and averaged 10.4 points in 30 regular-season games for the Thunder, then 12.5 points across eleven games in the Lakers and Spurs playoff series, starting two Western Conference Finals games. He opened the 2026-27 preseason with Oklahoma City in October 2026, scoring 20 points against Indiana.

The record

• Also known as: Jared Dane McCain

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 Jared McCain entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5915 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1047 (Basketball Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American guard — African-American father (Lance McCain); the subject identifies as African-American in the sourced reporting carried in this record. Vital status: LIVING — dated 2026 evidence: playing for Oklahoma City in the October 2026 preseason, including 20 points against Indiana on 13 October 2026 (Oklahoman game coverage). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Led all rookies at 15.3 points per game in 2024-25 before his season ended on 13 December 2024; 10.4 points in 30 games for Oklahoma City after the February 2026 trade (Sports Illustrated; 76ers release via Liberty Ballers) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (NBA, Duke and Thunder press photography of McCain; a CTL-created graphic is the cleared alternative.); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5915-jared-mccain.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

• Sports Illustrated, "Jared McCain 'had no Expectation' After Being Traded to OKC Thunder" — traded to Oklahoma City ahead of the 2026 deadline; 6.6 points in 37 games for Philadelphia in 2025-26 against 10.4 points in 30 games for the Thunder; 12.5 points in eleven playoff games against the Lakers and Spurs — https://www.si.com/nba/thunder/onsi/jared-mccain-had-no-expectation-after-being-traded-to-okc-thunder-01kt08bjg2b1 (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Jared McCain" — born 20 February 2004, Sacramento, California; Centennial (Corona); Duke (2023-2024); 16th overall pick in 2024 by Philadelphia; Oklahoma City from 2026; ACC All-Rookie team and California Mr. Basketball 2023 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_McCain (build store)
• EssentiallySports, "What Is Jared McCain's Ethnicity? All About the 76ers Star's Nationality, Family Roots, and Upbringing" — McCain identifies as African-American; his father Lance is African-American; he has also acknowledged partial Filipino heritage — https://www.essentiallysports.com/nba-active-basketball-news-what-is-jared-mccain-s-ethnicity-all-about-philadelphia-76ers-star-s-nationality-family-roots-and-upbringing/ (build store)

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