Jrue Holiday is a professional basketball player who currently plays for the Boston Celtics in the NBA. He is a 33-year-old American who was born on June 12, 1990, in Chatsworth, California. Holiday played college basketball for one season at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) before being selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the 2009 NBA draft with the 17th overall pick. He plays both the point guard and shooting guard positions.