Nick Bradford

Nicholas Evans Bradford (born August 5, 1978[1]) [2] is an American former professional basketball player. At 6 foot 7 inches in height, he played at small forward.[3]

Nick Bradford
Personal information
Born (1978-08-25) August 25, 1978
NationalityAmerican
Listed height6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High schoolFayetteville (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
CollegeKansas (1996–2000)
NBA draft2000 / Undrafted
Playing career2000–2011
PositionSmall forward
Career history
2001–2003Kansas City Knights
2003–2005Keflavík
2005–2007Reims Champagne Basket
2008–2009Grindavík
2009–2010CSU Sibiu
2009–2010Njarðvík
2010Keflavík
2011Grindavík
Career highlights and awards

High school career

Bradford is from Fayetteville, Arkansas. He played for his high school, Fayetteville Bulldogs and for AAU teams.[2] Both Gatorade and Scholastic Sports Magazine named Bradford Arkansas Player of the Year.[4][2] He was also named fourth team Parade magazine All-American.[4][2] Bradford's final list of college choices was the University of Kansas, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, and Connecticut.[4][2] He has stated that he choose Kansas because it is fairly close to home and had a good coach, Roy Williams.[4]

College career

At Kansas played at the small forward position for the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team.[3] His freshman year, 1997, his roommate was Paul Pierce and Bradford served as Pierce's back up.[2] 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."[4] His freshman year he played in 34 games and averaged 2.3 points a game.[4][2] 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.[4][2] His 1998-99 season, his junior year, Bradford averaged 9.1 points and 6.1 rebounds a game.[4] His senior year, he played on a Kansas team that included Nick Collison, Drew Gooden, and Kirk Hinrich.[4] He averaged 7.6 points and 4.8 rebounds.[4] In 2000, he was named honorable mention All-Big 12 and the team gave him the "Phog Allen MVP Award"[4] 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-led Jayhawks to an 83-82 win over the University of Missouri Tigers.[5][2][6]

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.[3]

Europe

In 2003, he signed with the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild club Keflavík and played there for two seasons, averaging 19,7 points and 8,9 rebounds per game.[7] He returned to Iceland in 2008 and played the next three seasons for Grindavík, Njarðvík and Keflavík.[8] After the 2008-2009 season he was voted as the Foreign Player of the year in Iceland.[9] Besides Iceland, Bradford played professionally in Romania, France and Finland.[10]

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. In July 2013, he accepted the assistant coaching position at Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) in Joplin, MO.i In April 2016 he accepted to coach basketball at Mexico High School in Missouri. In 2017 he accepted the Women's Head basketball coaching position at Olathe North High school.

References
  1. "Player Nick Bradford". Doudiz Basket, Basketball Statistics and History. November 20, 2010. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  2. "KANSAS OFFICIAL ATHLETICS SITE--Men's Basketball". University of Kansas. October 15, 1998. Retrieved November 21, 2010. Bradford grew up a stones’ throw away from the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, Ark.
  3. Knapp, Chris (February 5, 2009). "Catching Up With Nick Bradford". The Shiver. Archived from the original on April 25, 2009. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  4. Buckner, Steve (October 1, 2006). "Chapter 14: Nick Bradford". Game of My Life: Memorable Stories of Kansas Jayhawks Basketball. Sports Publishing. pp. 155–162. ISBN 978-1-58261-971-2. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  5. "Game Story". USA Today. March 5, 2000. Retrieved November 21, 2010. 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.
  6. Bedore, Gary (November 20, 2010). "Fit to be tied: KU matches Allen Fieldhouse winning streak". Lawrence Journal-World. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
  7. Nick Bradford Statistics
  8. Nick Bradford Statistics
  9. Viðurkenningar- Besti erlendi leikmaður úrvalsdeildar karla
  10. Shupe, Andy (January 24, 2011). "Long Time".
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