- Nick Bradford
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Nick Bradford Nickname(s) "Slick"[1] Position Small Forward Height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) Weight 200 lb (91 kg) Team Grindavík[2] Born August 25, 1978 [3] Nationality American College Kansas[4][5] Draft Undrafted, 2000 Pro career 2000–present Career history Kansas City Knights (2001-03)
The Keflavík Express--Iceland (2003-04)[1]
Reims Champagne Basket--France (2005-07)[3]
CSU SIBIU-Romania (2009-10)[5]
UMFG(2010-2011)Nicholas Evans Bradford[4] is an American professional basketball player. At 6 foot 7 inches in height, he plays at small forward.[6]
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High school career
Bradford is from Fayetteville, Arkansas. He played for his high school, Fayetteville Bulldogs and for AAU teams.[4] Both Gatorade and Scholastic Sports Magazine named Bradford Arkansas Player of the Year.[1][4] He was also named fourth team Parade magazine All-American.[1][4] Bradford's final list of college choices was the University of Kansas, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, and Connecticut.[1][4] He has stated that he choose Kansas because it is fairly close to home and had a good coach, Roy Williams.[1]
College career
At Kansas played at the small forward position for the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team.[6] His freshman year, 1997, his roommate was Paul Pierce and Bradford served as Pierce's back up.[4] He has stated that: "I think playing against Paul helped me get better. It helped my confidence. After guarding him every day, I knew I could guard anybody."[1] His freshman year he played in 34 games and averaged 2.3 points a game.[1][4] The 1997 team had a 35-4 season. His sophomore season at Kansas, he averaged about 4.2 points and 2.5 rebounds a game.[1][4] His 1998-99 season, his junior year, Bradford averaged 9.1 points and 6.1 rebounds a game.[1] His senior year, he played on a Kansas team that included Nick Collison, Drew Gooden, and Kirk Hinrich.[1] He averaged 7.6 points and 4.8 rebounds.[1] In 2000, he was named honorable mention All-Big 12 and the team gave him the "Phog Allen MVP Award"[1] In his final regular season home game, on March 5, 2000, Bradford hit six of eight shots from the floor and scored 15 points for Kansas, assisting the Drew Gooden-lead Jayhawks to an 83-82 win over the University of Missouri Tigers.[7]
Professional career
American Basketball Association
Bradford played for the minor league Kansas City Knights, which was coached by former Kansas Jayhawks player Kevin Pritchard from 2001 to 2003.[6]
Europe
He signed for the 2001-2003 seasons with the Iceland Premier League club The Keflavík Express--Iceland. Bradford is back in Fayetteville awaiting a new contract after stints playing basketball professionally overseas in Romania, Iceland, France and Finland.[8]
Coaching Career
In 2011, Bradford joined the Labette Community College (Parsons, KS) Cardinals of the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference coaching staff as an assistant coach.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Buckner, Steve (1 October 2006). "Chapter 14: Nick Bradford". Game of My Life: Memorable Stories of Kansas Jayhawks Basketball. Sports Publishing. pp. 155–162. ISBN 978-1582619712. http://books.google.com/books?id=YYoPQ_K9NO4C&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq=Nick+Bradford+and+Jayhawks&source=bl&ots=_BmW2HjjXU&sig=EA4zyEsAgX0mE8AoNHj-taCYPEg&hl=en&ei=fU3oTI-mL4OglAfNmYGtCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11&ved=0CF4Q6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=Nick%20Bradford%20and%20Jayhawks&f=false. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
- ^ "Nicholas Bradford Statistics". Eurobasket. 2010-11-20. http://www.eurobasket.com/player.asp?Cntry=ISL&PlayerID=19160. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
- ^ a b "Player Nick Bradford". Doudiz Basket, Basketball Statistics and History. 2010-11-20. http://en.basketball.doudiz.com/player/24642/Nick-Bradford.html. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "KANSAS OFFICIAL ATHLETICS SITE--Men's Basketball". University of Kansas. 1998-10-15. http://www.kuathletics.com/sports/m-baskbl/past_seasons/98_99/bios_98_99_mbb/bradford_nick.html. Retrieved 2010-11-21. "Bradford grew up a stones’ throw away from the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, Ark."
- ^ a b Bedore, Gary (2010-11-20). "Fit to be tied: KU matches Allen Fieldhouse winning streak". Lawrence Journal-World. http://www2.kusports.com/news/2010/nov/20/fit-be-tied-ku-matches-homecourt-streak/?mens_basketball. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
- ^ a b c Knapp, Chris (2009-02-05). "Catching Up With Nick Bradford". The Shiver. http://theshiver.com/2009/02/catching-up-with-nick-bradford/. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
- ^ "Game Story". USA Today. 2000-03-05. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/scores100/100065/100065359.htm. Retrieved 2010-11-21. "In his final regular season home game, Nick Bradford went 6-of-8 from the field and scored 15 points for Kansas (22-8, 11-5 Big 12), which has won the first three Big 12 tournaments."
- ^ Shupe, Andy (1/24/11) "Long Time" http://shupepartyofone.blogspot.com/2011/01/long-time.html
External links
Categories:- 1978 births
- Living people
- African American basketball players
- American expatriate basketball people in France
- American expatriate basketball people in Iceland
- American expatriate basketball people in Romania
- Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball players
- Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
- Small forwards
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