 Hummel with theMinnesota Timberwolves in 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1989-03-08)March 8, 1989 (age 36) Valparaiso, Indiana, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 215 lb (98 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| High school | Valparaiso (Valparaiso, Indiana) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College | Purdue (2007–2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 2012: 2nd round, 58th overall pick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drafted by | Minnesota Timberwolves | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2012–2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Small forward /power forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 6, 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2012–2013 | Obradoiro CAB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Minnesota Timberwolves | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | EA7 Emporio Armani Milano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Khimki | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robert John Hummel (born March 8, 1989) is an American professionalbasketball player and TV commentator. He playedcollege basketball forPurdue University and for theMinnesota Timberwolves in theNBA. In 2019, Hummel was namedUSA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year. He has served as an analyst for theBig Ten Network andFox Sports, and is a regular contributor forWestwood One Sports andSirius XM.Robbie Hummel also works as a college basketball analyst forNBC Sports andCBS Sports.
Hummel attendedValparaiso High School inValparaiso, Indiana. Playing under coach Bob Punter, he played alongside his future college freshman teammate, Scott Martin (who transferred to theUniversity of Notre Dame after one season at Purdue). Hummel averaged 15.7 points, 7.1 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game as a Viking during his senior season.[1]
Considered a four-star recruit byRivals.com, Hummel was listed as the No. 21small forward and the No. 75 player in the nation in 2007.[2]
Hummel attendedPurdue University to play under head coachMatt Painter. He averaged 11.4 points (second on team), 6.1 rebounds (first) and 2.5 assists a game in his freshman year. Hummel led the "Baby Boilers", along withChris Kramer,JaJuan Johnson, Keaton Grant, andE'Twaun Moore, to a second-place finish in conference play and on to a second-roundNCAA tournament appearance, where they lost to a senior-ledXavier team. He broke the school freshman record with a 44.7 three-point field goal percentage, while leading theBig Ten Conference. He also recorded the highest free throw percentage for a freshman in school history with 86.5 percent accuracy, which led the team, and brokeKyle Macy's 33-year-old .859 mark. He was named First Team All-Big Ten, becoming the first trueBoilermaker freshman to earn the honor. He finished his freshman season as one of 24John R. Wooden Award finalists and of 10 finalists for theOscar Robertson Trophy. He helped lead the Boilermakers to a 25–9 overall season record.[1]
Hummel completed hissophomore season averaging close to 13 points (3rd on team) and 7 rebounds (1st) a game. As one of three tri-captains on the team and named the Preseason Big Ten Player of the Year, he scored his 500th career point on December 13, 2008, againstIndiana State. Hummel opened the season with ten straight double-figure-scoring performances, totaling 19 on the season (15–4), which included four 20-plus-point performances (3–1). He won back-to-back Big Ten Player of the Week honors in the month of December, pulling down a career-high 14 rebounds and scoring 25 points during that time frame. He recorded two preseasondouble-doubles, with one coming againstStephen Curry'sDavidson team. Hummel began battling withback spasms and a brokenvertebra, which forced him to sit out five games and kept him from practice involvement. He had to wear aback brace in games following with limited minutes, while helping lead the Boilermakers to an 11–7 conference record, going 1–3 without him. Hummel led the Boilermakers to their firstBig Ten tournament championship in school history and was named themost outstanding player of the tournament, following with a third straightNCAA tournament appearance and the program's firstSweet Sixteen appearance in 9 years. Finishing the season wearing a back brace, he scored a team high 17 points in the final game of the season againstUConn in the regional semifinals. Although having dealt with performance affecting injuries and missing four conference games, he was named a Third Team-All Big Ten selection.[1]
To start the2009–10 season, Hummel was picked as one of fifty players as a preseasonJohn R. Wooden Award candidate, along with teammate, E'Twaun Moore. He was a Preseason First Team All-Big Ten pick by bothCBS Sports andBig Ten Network and a Preseason 2nd Team All-American pick byESPN analysts,Doug Gottlieb andJay Williams. Near mid-season, he was selected as one of thirty finalists for theNaismith Award. With MVPE'Twaun Moore, Hummel was named to the 2009Paradise Jam All-Tournament Team after a victory over #10Tennessee. During a school record-tying 14–0 season start on December 29, 2009, againstIowa, Hummel broke a school record, making 36 consecutive free throws, previously held byJerry Sichting's 34, which was set three decades earlier. He tied his former assistant coach,Cuonzo Martin's single-game school record of 8 three-point field goals made in a losing effort against anEvan Turner-ledOhio State team on January 12, 2010, in which he also scored a career high 35 points and received a dislocatedpinky finger. In his team's tenth straight win in conference play atMinnesota on February 24, Hummel injured his right knee in the first half after he slipped while attempting to plant his foot. He scored 11 points, making 3-of-4 three-pointers, in his prior twelve minutes of the game. Purdue officials reported the following day that Hummeltore hisanterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and would miss the rest of the season.[3] He finished the last five games as a junior perfect from the free throw line, making all 21 of his attempts.[1]
Playing 30.3 minutes per game, he averaged 15.7 points (2nd on team), 6.9 rebounds (1st), 1.1 steals, 1 block, and 2.1 assists, while shooting 45.6 percent from the floor and led the Big Ten at 90.2 percent from the line, while also leading the nation amongst players at the forward position. He also shot 36.4 percent beyond the arc (2nd). Hummel scored at least 11 points in all but three games on the season (24–3), including ten straight, while recording eight double-doubles and being named a First Team All-Big Ten selection for the second time in his career at Purdue, while also being named aFox Sports Third-Team All-American, aState Farm andNABC Second Team All-American, and anAssociated Press Honorable Mention All-American. He averaged 16.2 points and 7.3 rebounds per game in Big Ten Conference play for the third-ranked team in the nation (12–3). Hummel received knee surgery and had to wait 4 to 6 months for the healing process.[1]
After two consecutive seasons with performance-affecting injuries, Hummel was expected to return for his senior season. Fellow teammates JaJuan Johnson and E'Twaun Moore were returning as well, where they pulled out of the2010 NBA draft to return for their senior season. At team practice on October 16, Hummel tore the same ACL and was forced to sit out and serve as an assistant for the 2010–11 season. Before the injury, Hummel was predicted as high as a Preseason Second Team All-American by much of the media.[1]
Hummel returned to the team as a fifth-yearredshirted senior. On October 19, 2011, he showed no effects from his injury during 3-on-3 fast-break drills in practice. Hummel was named one of 50 candidates for theJohn R. Wooden Award, as well as the #24 player onCBSSports.com Top 100 List and a Lowe'sSenior CLASS Award candidate to open the season. On November 11, the Preseason All-Big Ten selection scored 21 points, making 5-of-7 beyond the arc to open the season againstNorthern Illinois in 20 minutes of play. On December 3 in a three-point loss at #11Xavier, Hummel suffered fromcramps anddehydration, which eventually caused him to fall to the floor in the last minute of the game. Hummel led Purdue to a 10–3 non-conference mark and onto a 10–8 conference record. Hummel led the Boilermakers with 16.4 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks per contest, while averaging 2 assists and .7 steals. He scored in double figures in all but three games (1–2) this season, which included nine 20-plus-point games (7–2), while recording six double-doubles (4–2). On February 4, Hummel recorded a career-high 5 blocks in a home loss to #20Indiana. On February 22, he scored a season-high 29 points in a home win againstNebraska. Following that game and a 17-point performance win at #11Michigan, Hummel was named Big Ten Player of the Week. In his last game atMackey Arena on February 29, Hummel recorded a career-high 6 assists, along with 26 points and 8 rebounds againstPenn State. Throughout the month of February, Hummel led the nation in points scored. After the culmination of the regular season, Hummel was selected First Team All-Big Ten for the third time in his career, becoming the first Boilermaker sinceRick Mount (1968–1970) to do so and the first Big Ten player sinceMateen Cleaves. Hummel led the Boilermakers to a sixth straight NCAA tournament, losing in his final game to Final Four-boundKansas in the third round by 3 points. Being guarded byThomas Robinson, Hummel scored 22 points in the first half, finishing with 26 points and 9 rebounds. He was named anAssociated Press Honorable Mention All-American and also won the Lowe'sSenior CLASS Award and the Thomas A. Brady Comeback Award.[1]
Hummel became the 44th player in school history to score over 1,000 career points, surpassing the mark with a 13-point performance during a 73–66 loss on January 9, 2010. On December 23, 2011, atIowa, Hummel became the tenth player in school history to tally 700 rebounds. His 90.2 free throw percentage on the2009–10 season ranks second best in school history. On March 4, 2012, with a 16-point performance in a loss at Indiana, Hummel scored his 1,720th career point, placing him ninth in career points at Purdue. He finished his career with 1,772 points (9th), 862 rebounds (4th), 268 assists, 132 steals, 112 blocks, becoming the only Boilermaker to reach such numbers in each category.[1]
On June 28, 2012, Hummel was selected by theMinnesota Timberwolves with the 58th overall pick in the2012 NBA draft.[4] In July 2012, he joined the Timberwolves for the 2012 NBA Summer League.[5] On August 8, 2012, Hummel signed a one-year deal withBlu:sens Monbús of Spain.[6] In September 2012, he injured his right meniscus and was sidelined for two months.[7]
In July 2013, Hummel re-joined the Minnesota Timberwolves for the2013 NBA Summer League.[8] On September 26, 2013, he signed with the Timberwolves,[9] and he re-signed with them on July 22, 2014.[10] On January 26, 2015, he was ruled out indefinitely after suffering a non-displaced fracture of the fourth metacarpal in his right hand.[11]
On June 28, 2015, the Timberwolves tendered a qualifying offer to make Hummel a restricted free agent.[12] However, they later withdrew the offer on July 6, thus parting ways with him.[13]
On July 31, 2015, Hummel signed a one-year deal with Italian teamEA7 Emporio Armani Milano.[14] On February 5, 2016, he parted ways with Milano, after suffering a serious shoulder injury.[15] He appeared in 11 games and had four starts in the Italian League, averaging 9.0 points and 5.0 rebounds in 22.4 minutes per game. He also played in nine games while having one start in Euroleague play, averaging 7.6 points, 4.0 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game.[16]
On September 15, 2016, Hummel signed with theDenver Nuggets,[16] but was waived on October 22 after appearing in seven preseason games.[17] Seven days later, he signed with Russian clubKhimki for the rest of the 2016–17 season.[18]
With his lower back injury healing daily, Hummel was selected for the USA Men's2009World University Games inBelgrade, Serbia underWisconsin head coachBo Ryan.[19] Along with the likes of fellow Big Ten playersEvan Turner andTalor Battle, Hummel helped lead Team USA to the Bronze medal againstIsrael, finishing with a 6–1 record.[20] Pulling down a team single-game-high ten rebounds, he averaged 7.3 points and 3.4 rebounds per game.
On October 4, 2017, Hummel announced he was retiring from professional basketball in order to become a studio analyst and color commentator forESPN andBig Ten Network.[21][22] In 2017, Hummel signed a three-year broadcasting contract with multiple networks followed by a two-year deal with the same. Following the Big Ten's signing of a new media deal that included NBC and Fox and left out ESPN, Hummel signed with the two former networks and left the latter.[23]
Hummel is a regular contributor onWestwood One Sports[24] as well asSirius XM.[25]
In 2019, Hummel joined Team Princeton 3X3 on theFIBA 3x3 World Tour.[26] On June 23, 2019, Hummel won a gold medal at the2019 FIBA 3x3 World Cup in Amsterdam.
| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 2013–14 | Minnesota | 53 | 5 | 12.4 | .379 | .360 | .938 | 2.5 | .4 | .3 | .0 | 3.4 |
| 2014–15 | Minnesota | 45 | 4 | 16.5 | .459 | .314 | .828 | 3.0 | .6 | .4 | .2 | 4.4 |
| Career | 98 | 9 | 14.3 | .418 | .343 | .867 | 2.7 | .5 | .3 | .1 | 3.9 |
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