Jon Robert Holden

Jon Robert "J.R." Holden (Russian: Джон Ро́берт Хо́лден; born August 10, 1976) is an American-Russian former professional basketball player and current basketball executive who is serving as a front office executive of the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was previously the director of player personal of the Brooklyn Nets. Holden was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, he could play at both the point guard and shooting guard positions, but he primarily played at point guard. As a member of CSKA Moscow, Holden won two EuroLeague titles, in 2006 and 2008. Moreover, he reached eight consecutive EuroLeague Final Four tournaments, a record he shares with his former CSKA teammate, Theo Papaloukas. His consistency at the highest level of European basketball earned him a selection to the EuroLeague 2000–2010 All-Decade Team. He was also a member of the senior men's Russian national basketball team, which he helped lead to the FIBA EuroBasket title in 2007, Russia's first ever gold medal in the tournament.