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Dajuan Marquett Wagner (born February 4, 1983) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Prokom Trefl Sopot of the Polish Basketball League. He is the son of former University of Louisville and NBA player Milt Wagner and was forced out of the NBA by debilitating health problems early into his career, but made a comeback after undergoing major surgery.
Wagner had a phenomenal career at Camden High School and is perhaps better remembered for scoring 100 points in a high school game than his exploits at the collegiate and professional levels. He averaged 42.5 points as a senior, scored 3,462 points in high school (the most in New Jersey high school history, breaking former high school star Lorne Singleton's scoring record of 3,451 points) and scored 25 points in the McDonald's All-American Game. Wagner is considered by many to be the greatest high school basketball player in New Jersey history.
He played one year of college basketball at the University of Memphis. His coach, John Calipari, revoked Wagner's scholarship after his freshman year to force him to enter the NBA, because Calipari believed that Wagner should not avoid the money he would receive as a first-round draft pick.