Trevor Anthony Ariza (born June 30, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Ariza played AAU basketball for 4D, a traveling youth basketball team that had numerous All-Americans on the roster. Ariza attended Westchester High School in Los Angeles, California, where as a junior he combined with teammates and fellow future NBA players Hassan Adams, Brandon Heath, and Bobby Brown to lead the Comets to the California State championship.
Considered a five-star recruit by Rivals.com, Ariza was listed as the No. 5 power forward and the No. 18 player in the nation in 2003.
Ariza accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of California, Los Angeles, where he played for coach Ben Howland's UCLA Bruins basketball team in 2003–04.
After one season at UCLA, Ariza declared for the NBA draft and was a second round choice (43rd overall) of the New York Knicks in 2004.
Living in a world, based on indifference, and intolerance. Were believing lies claiming ignorance, and denying the facts like there wont be consequence. And as we turn our backs and we walk away. There's hundreds people dying every single day.
It makes me sad to think about, the thousands of kids forced kill without, a justifiable reason. Handed a gun and raped of all thought and decision. Brain washed and forced to fight, not for freedom and not for there lives. Murderers at the age of thirteen. Killing for there country, reasons so obscene. And still thousands fight and thousands die, and know one seems to be wondering why. But we do nothing, we do nothing. And there, killing for greed and power. Killing to kill them all. Killing for god. Genocide