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DeShawn Stevenson is an American former professional basketball player. Stevenson played for six teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) during a 13-year career. He originally committed to play at the University of Kansas, but decided to enter the NBA directly from high school and was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd selection of the 2000 NBA draft. He was a member of the Dallas Mavericks team that won an NBA championship in 2011. In 2017, Stevenson joined Power, one of the eight BIG3 basketball league teams.

Deshawn L. Parker is a Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who is a two-time United States Champion. In addition, on May 2, 2016 he became only the thirty-second jockey in the history of North American Thoroughbred racing to win 5,000 races. On June 21, 2022 while racing at Horseshoe Indianapolis, Parker rode his 6,000th career winner, For Mama, becoming one of only 21 jockeys to reach that rarified air.

I'm not black, so this name isn't one I'd use. But I'd like to point out that a variant of it, Dashon, is the name of an absolutely awesome African American bass baritone, Dashon Burton, born 1982. He's superbly gifted, with a deep velvety tone that enraptures and inspires, and while principally a specialist in sacred and baroque music, he has performed spirituals and protest songs too, as well as a piece on the Holocaust. I like the name Dashon because I associate it with him.