Monta Ellis

American basketball player

Monta Ellis is remembered in sport for work that changed what came after it.

The record lists Monta Ellis as American basketball player (born 1985).

Monta Ellis was born at Jackson in 1985. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Lanier High School.

Modern careers are conducted in public and at speed, with reputations formed and revised far faster than the work itself changes.

Monta Ellis is described as basketball player.

In sport the margin between the remembered and the forgotten is often a fraction of a second.

His work was formally recognised with the NBA Most Improved Player Award.

Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Monta Ellis is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.

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