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Tyrone Sidney Nash (born September 24, 1988) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Rasta Vechta of the German ProA. He played college basketball for the University of Notre Dame before playing professionally in Germany, France, Dominican Republic, Israel, Turkey and Lithuania.
 Nash with Ironi Nahariya in 2018 | |
| Free Agent | |
|---|---|
| Position | Power forward |
| Personal information | |
| Born | September 24, 1988 Queens, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) |
| Listed weight | 232 lb (105 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Lawrence Woodmere Academy (Woodmere, New York) |
| College | Notre Dame (2007–2011) |
| NBA draft | 2011: undrafted |
| Playing career | 2011–present |
| Career history | |
| 2011–2014 | Walter Tigers Tübingen |
| 2015 | SPO Rouen Basket |
| 2015 | Leones de Santo Domingo |
| 2015–2016 | Löwen Braunschweig |
| 2016–2017 | Ironi Nahariya |
| 2017 | Akhisar Belediyespor |
| 2017–2018 | Ironi Nahariya |
| 2018 | BC Prienai |
| 2018–2019 | Rasta Vechta |
| 2021 | CD Valdivia |
| 2021–2022 | Rasta Vechta |
Nash attended Lawrence Woodmere Academy in Woodmere, New York, where he averaged 17 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks during his senior season. Nash helped lead his team to three consecutive regional championships during his sophomore, junior and senior campaigns and earned All-Long Island first-team honors.[1]
Nash played college basketball for University of Notre Dame's Fighting Irish, where he averaged 9.5 points and 5.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game in his senior year.[1]
Nash went undrafted in the 2011 NBA draft. On July 6, 2011, Nash signed with the German team Walter Tigers Tübingen for the 2011–2012 season.[2] That season, on March 21, 2012, Nash signed a two-year contract extension with Tübingen.[3] In his second season with the team, Nash participated in the 2013 BBL Slam Dunk Contest.
On June 22, 2014, Nash signed with the French team SPO Rouen Basket for the 2014–2015 season, alongside his former teammate Daequan Cook.[4] However, on August 24, 2014, he parted ways with Rouen due to a leg injury that occurred while playing for the New Orleans Pelicans in the 2014 NBA Summer League.[5] On January 19, 2015, Nash returned to Rouen for the remainder of the season.[6]
On August 10, 2015, Nash returned to Germany for a second stint, signing with Löwen Braunschweig for the 2015–2016 season.[7] On December 6, 2015, Nash recorded a season-high 26 points, shooting 9-of-12 from the field, along with eight rebounds in 90–83 win over Mitteldeutscher.[8]
On September 15, 2016, Nash signed with the Israeli team Ironi Nahariya for the 2016–17 season.[9] On April 9, 2017, Nash recorded a career-high 28 points, shooting 12-of-13 from the field, along with seven rebounds, four assists and two steals in a 105–80 blowout win over Hapoel Tel Aviv.[10] Nash helped Nahariya reach the 2017 FIBA Europe Cup Quarterfinals, as well as reaching the 2017 Israeli League Quarterfinals, where they eventually lost to Hapoel Jerusalem 2–3 in a playoff series.
On July 4, 2017, Nash signed with the Turkish team Akhisar Belediyespor for the 2017–18 season.[11] In November 2017, he parted ways with the team after appearing in five league games.
On November 10, 2017, Nash returned to Ironi Nahariya for a second stint, signing for the rest of the 2017–18 season.[12]
On October 29, 2018, Nash signed a one-year deal with BC Prienai of the Lithuanian Basketball League.[13] In December 2018, he parted ways with Prienai after appearing in two league games.[14]
On December 8, 2019, Nash signed with Rasta Vechta for the rest of the season.[14] In 18 games played for Rasta Vechta, he finished the season as the league third-leading in field goal percentage (70.8), along with 10 points and 5.1 rebounds per game. Nash helped Rasta Vechta reach the 2019 BBL Playoffs as the fourth seed, but they eventually were eliminated by Bayern Munich in the Semifinals.
On January 9, 2021, he has signed with CD Valdivia of the LNB Chile.[15]
On October 14, 2021, he has signed second time with Rasta Vechta of the German ProA.[16]
Nash was a member of the Notre Dame Fighting Alumni team that competed in the inaugural The Basketball Tournament, a winner-take-all competition, winning the 2014 tournament, with Nash being named MVP.[17]
In TBT 2018, Nash suited up for Team Sons of Westwood. In three games, he averaged 11.0 points per game and 5.7 rebounds per game on 83 percent shooting. Team Sons of Westwood ALS made it to the Super 16 before falling to Team Challenge ALS.
| Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | Games played | MPG | Minutes per game | FG% | Field goal percentage |
| 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage | RPG | Rebounds per game |
| APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game | BPG | Blocks per game |
| PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high | Led the league | |
| Year | Team | League | GP | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 |  Tübingen |
BBL | 34 | 27.1 | .509 | .316 | .566 | 5.0 | 1.3 | .8 | .4 | 9.0 |
| 2012–13 | 32 | 28.1 | .557 | .289 | .642 | 5.3 | 1.3 | .7 | .3 | 10.7 | ||
| 2013–14 | 33 | 28.7 | .447 | .306 | .679 | 5.4 | 1.9 | 1.1 | .4 | 10.5 | ||
| 2015 |  Rouen |
Pro A | 11 | 28.5 | .507 | .0 | .500 | 5.9 | 1.7 | 1.0 | .1 | 8.2 |
| 2015–16 | Braunschweig |
BBL | 34 | 29.2 | .550 | .240 | .667 | 6.1 | 2.1 | .9 | .2 | 10.8 |
| 2016–17 |  Nahariya |
IPL | 37 | 21.5 | .588 | .306 | .533 | 4.5 | 1.2 | .6 | .1 | 7.9 |
| 2017 |  Belediyespor |
TBL | 5 | 24.9 | .594 | .333 | .500 | 3.2 | 1.0 | .4 | .2 | 8.8 |
| 2017–18 | Nahariya |
IPL | 28 | 26.9 | .580 | .0 | .618 | 6.5 | .8 | .7 | .3 | 8.6 |
| 2018 |  Prienai |
LKL | 2 | 4.8 | 1.000 | .0 | .500 | 1.0 | .5 | .5 | .0 | 2.5 |
| 2018–19 | Rasta Vechta |
BBL | 18 | 23.3 | .667 | .273 | .568 | 5.1 | 1.2 | .7 | .1 | 10.0 |
Source: RealGM
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