Russell Hinder

NBL Player Infobox
name = Russell Hinder


nickname = Rusty
position = Forward/Centre
height = 208cm
weight = 110 kg
team = Townsville Crocodiles
nationality = Australia
birth_date = Birth date and age|1979|7|10|mf=y
birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales
first_nbl_game = 2002
last_nbl_game =
junior_association = Bankstown Bruins Waratah
college = University of San Francisco, Augusta State University
previous_clubs = West Sydney Razorbacks 2002-2004
Hunter Pirates 2005-2006
Sydney Kings 2006-2008
career_highlights = Commonwealth Games squad member (2006) FIBA suqad member (2006)

Russell Hinder (born July 10, 1979, in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian basketball player currently playing in the NBL for the Townsville Crocodiles. Russell went to the University of San Francisco before transferring to Augusta State University. He then came back to sign up with the West Sydney Razorbacks in which his last season with the club he not only lead the team to a NBL Grand Final, his season performance got him third in the Most Improved player award. He then went to play for the Hunter Pirates where he spent one year their before they were abandoned. He then joined the Sydney Kings where he earned himself a spot in the Australian Boomers team where the Boomers won the Gold Medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and also a spot at the FIBA World Championships that same year. He also led the Sydney Kings to two Grand Finals but was unsuccessful losing to the Melbourne Tigers on both occasions. Just like the Pirates, the Kings had to fold at the end of the 2007/08 NBL season. Without a club, Russell was about to retire before he signed with the Townsville Crocodiles as just days before he signed the Crocodiles lost their star centre Ben Pepper who had “family issues”. Once Hinder landed in Townsville, he has announced that he wants to help the Crocs win an NBL championship as the team hasn’t won a Championship and Hinder has been in three NBL finals but has never won a series.