Miye Oni  Olumiye "Miye" Oni (born August 4, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Yale Bulldogs. Listed at and 206 pounds (95 kg), he plays the shooting guard position. Oni was named Ivy League Player of the Year in 2019 and is a three-time All-Ivy League selection. Oni, who is of Nigerian descent, grew up in Northridge, Los Angeles and began playing high school basketball at Viewpoint School, where he was named the divisional player of the year. He was lightly recruited at Viewpoint and committed to Williams College of the NCAA Division III. After drawing more interest as a senior at Viewpoint, he committed to Yale, but admissions rules forced him to play an additional season of prep basketball at Suffield Academy before college. Oni was born to Nigerian parents Opeyemi and Oludotun Oni. His father is a professor at the University of Phoenix and an engineer. Oni began playing basketball at age two with a toy hoop and joined a YMCA league with his older sister at age five. From a young age, he had aspirations to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and admired Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. In addition to basketball, he played football, mainly as a safety and wide receiver, and baseball. Oni started playing high school basketball at Viewpoint School in Calabasas, California under head coach J. J. Prince. He played for the junior varsity team in his freshman season, when he stood and weighed . As a junior, Oni suffered a knee injury that sidelined him for most of the season. The injury hindered his college recruiting because he did not have film to show college coaches before his senior year. Oni stood and weighed by the time he was a senior. He had a breakout final season for Viewpoint, averaging 18 points, 9 rebounds, and 4 assists and being named California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division 5AA player of the year. At Viewpoint, Oni did not draw interest from NCAA Division I basketball programs and was only recruited by Division III school Williams College, where he committed in the fall of his senior year of high school. However, Williams did not offer enough financial aid for his family to meet the cost of attendance. During his senior season at Viewpoint, Oni attracted attention from Yale assistant coach Matt Kingsley.