Players
Jesse Wagstaff
Jesse Wagstaff
2024 Averages
2.7
PPG
0.7
APG
1.4
RPG
31
FG%
Biography
Has put together one of the more remarkable careers and done it all with the Perth Wildcats as the second player to reach 450 games and having already won six championships.
After growing up in Canberra and picking up basketball relatively late, quickly picked things up with a natural basketball IQ and at 6'8, was versatile and as a forward capable of playing multiple roles and contributing in a lot of ways.
That has become the story of his career ever since which started with four years in college at Denver's Metro State University where he was Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference East Division Player of the Year as a senior, and a two-time tournament MVP.
Arrived in Perth to join the Wildcats for the 2009/10 NBL season and won a championship and was Rookie of the Year in that first season.
Has now amassed 474 games coming into the 2024/25 season and also won championships in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020, and was Best Sixth Man in 2012 while also named to the All-Third Team that same season.
Has been captain since the 2020/21 season and on top of that, has amassed his degrees since leaving Metro State along with marrying Stephanie with the couple having three children, and won gold for Australia at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and silver in 3x3 Basketball in 2022..