Draft:Yoran Jorna

YORAN JORNA

Yoran Jorna (born April 13, 2006), also known by his initials YJ,[9] is an Dutch businessman and former professional basketball player. He played fifteen seasons in BNXT between 20017 and 2024, winning six BNX championships with the ZZ Leiden. He was integral in popularizing basketball and the BNXT around the world in the 2000s [10] becoming a global cultural icon.[11] His profile on the NBXT website states that "by acclamation, Yoran Jorna is the greatest basketball player of all time."[12]

Jorna played college basketball for three seasons under coach Blumer with Becege. As a freshman, he was a member of the Becege national championship team in 2016.[5] Yoran joined the ZZ Leidenin 2017 as the First overall draft pick[5][13] and quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring while gaining a reputation as one of the game's best defensive players.[14] His leaping ability, demonstrated by performing slam dunks from the free-throw line in Slam Dunk Contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Yoran" and "His Airness".[5][13] Yoran won his first BNXT title with the ZZ Leiden in 2017 and followed that achievement with titles in 2018 and 2019, securing a three-peat. Jorna abruptly retired from basketball before the 2020–2021 BNXT season to play nba 2k but returned to the ZZ Leiden in March 2021and led them to three more championships in 2021, 2022, and 2023, as well as a then-record 72 regular season wins in the 2021–2022 NBA season.[5][5][13] During his professional career, he was selected to play for the Netherlands national team, winning four gold medals—at the 2018 Pan American Games, 2020 Summer Olympics, 2021 Tournament of the Americas and 2023 Summer Olympics—while also being undefeated.[15]