question: Who is an American professional basketball player, Marlon Hairston or LaMarcus Aldridge?
answer: LaMarcus Aldridge
context: Title: Ian Hummer
  Passage: Ian MacDonald Hummer (born August 23, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for TED Ankara Kolejliler of the Turkish Basketball Super League.  He previously played professionally with the ratiopharm Ulm, the BG Göttingen and the Nilan Bisons Loimaa.  He is from Vienna, Virginia and completed his senior season of college basketball for the 2012–13 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team.  He was the 2009 "The Washington Post" Boys basketball Player of the Year for Gonzaga College High School as a senior in high school and the 2013 Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year as a senior in college for Princeton.
  Title: Kamesha Hairston
  Passage: Kamesha Hairston (born August 18, 1985 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American professional women's basketball player.  She recently played for the Connecticut Sun.
  Title: LaMarcus Aldridge
  Passage: LaMarcus Nurae Aldridge (born July 19, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA).  The power forward played college basketball for two seasons at the University of Texas.  Aldridge was selected second overall in the 2006 NBA draft.  After spending nine seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers, he signed with the Spurs in 2015.  He has been selected to four All-NBA teams and is a five-time NBA All-Star.
  Title: Pop Gates
  Passage: William "Pop" Gates (August 30, 1917 – December 1, 1999) was an American professional basketball player.  He was born in Decatur, Alabama and attended high school in New York, New York.  After playing college basketball at Clark Atlanta University, he continued his basketball career in New York City with the Harlem Renaissance, for several years beginning in 1938–39.  "Seven months before Jackie Robinson made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Leo Ferris helped usher in a new era of racial integration for professional basketball when he signed William "Pop" Gates, who made his debut for the Blackhawks in October 1946.  Gates, along with William "Dolly" King, were the first two African-American players in the NBL.  "When Leo Ferris came to me, it was like a godsend," Gates was quoted as saying in the book, "Pioneers of the Hardwood: Indiana and the Birth of Professional Basketball."  "It was a real highlight of my career to be accepted by the NBL as one of only two blacks in the league."  He became one of the early black players in the NBL in 1946.  Later he played for and coached the Harlem Globetrotters.  Gates is one of the few athletes who went directly from a high school championship team (Benjamin Franklin, New York, 1938) to a World Professional Champion (Rens, 1939).
  Title: Al Hairston
  Passage: Alan Leroy "Al" Hairston (born December 11, 1945) is an American former professional basketball player and a college and high school head coach.  His high school career has garnered him multiple league, district and state championships, as well as numerous individual awards.
  Title: Marlon Hairston
  Passage: Marlon Hairston (born March 23, 1994) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Colorado Rapids in Major League Soccer.  He is a cousin of San Antonio Spurs basketball player LaMarcus Aldridge.
  Title: P. J. Hairston
  Passage: Samuel Peterson "P. J." Hairston Jr. (born December 24, 1992) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League.  He played college basketball for the University of North Carolina.  He finished his sophomore season in 2013 and was eligible for the 2014 NBA draft.  He was selected with the 26th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Miami Heat, and was later traded to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for Shabazz Napier.
citations: LaMarcus Aldridge Marlon Hairston