Canyon Barry
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| Position | Shooting guard | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | January 7, 1994 Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 215 lb (98 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| High school | Cheyenne Mountain (Colorado Springs, Colorado) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| NBA draft | 2017: undrafted | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2017–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2017 | Salon Vilpas Vikings | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Brno | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Hunan Jinjian Rice Industry | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2022 | Iowa Wolves | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Canyon Barry (born January 7, 1994) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Iowa Wolves of the NBA G League. Barry also represents the United States in FIBA 3x3 basketball competition. He is the son of Lynn Norenberg Barry and Rick Barry, a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee.
He played college basketball for three years at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as one year at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. As a redshirt junior at the College of Charleston, Barry averaged a team-high 19.7 points per game.[1] Following that season, Barry graduated from the College of Charleston Honors College with a bachelor's degree in physics.[2] On May 9, 2016, he announced his transfer to the University of Florida as an immediately-eligible graduate transfer studying nuclear engineering.[3] After graduating, he got a job as system engineer at L3Harris.[4]
He is most notable for this free-throw shooting, as he shoots "granny style," a method his father popularized during his career.[5] Barry had a .883 free throw percentage as a senior.[6] He set a Florida Gators men's basketball school record for consecutive free throws, surpassing Taurean Green's streak of 37 on February 11, 2017.[7] His streak ended at 42 on February 14 on a night when he posted a season-high 30 points against Auburn.[8] He earned NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Academic All-American of the Year recognition in 2017.[9]