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Kendal Pinder
Kendal Nathaniel "Tiny" Pinder (born 25 April 1956) is a Bahamian former professional basketball player. He moved to the United States as a teenager and attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School in Florida. Pinder played college basketball for the East Tennessee State Buccaneers, Miami Dade Sharks and NC State Wolfpack. He started his professional career with stints in Israel and Finland; he also spent three seasons with the Harlem Globetrotters.
Pinder moved to Australia in 1985 to play in the National Basketball League (NBL) with the Sydney Supersonics and was selected to the All-NBL Team when he led the league in scoring during his first season. He joined the Perth Wildcats in 1987 and won two NBL championships with the team in 1990 and 1991. Pinder's career was interrupted in 1992 when he was imprisoned for sexual assault offences. He was released in 1995 and had his final basketball stint with the Illawarra Hawks that same year.
Pinder has since spent periods in prison for various offences. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment in 1996 for sexual assault charges involving a teenager. Pinder was imprisoned in 2021 for 15 months after being convicted of stalking a woman. In 2024, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for two sexual assaults that occurred in 2009 and 2021.
Pinder was born in The Bahamas where he was raised in Nassau and Freeport. He was nicknamed "Tiny" by his grandmother because he was small when he was young. He was a victim of violence as a child. Pinder fell through a plate glass window at the age of 12 and suffered head injuries that were potentially linked to longstanding cognitive issues. He started playing basketball as a teenager.
Pinder attended Hawksbill High School in Freeport from 1968 to 1972. He was enrolled under the name "Nathaniel Forbes" using his father's surname. Pinder did not attend school for one year.
Pinder moved to Miami, Florida, to earn a college basketball scholarship. He changed his name to "Kendal Pinder" upon his arrival for unexplained reasons. Pinder enrolled at Miami Northwestern Senior High School in 1973 but was declared ineligible to play on the basketball team during his first season because his family did not accompany him during his move. He became eligible for the 1974–75 season where he was a junior in class standing but a senior in eligibility because of the year he missed in the Bahamas. Pinder averaged 19 points per game and led Northwestern to a 25–5 record on their way to a Greater Miami Athletic Conference championship.
A 1976 investigation by The Miami News concluded that Pinder was likely ineligible to play during the 1974–75 season. Northwestern received records from Hawksbill that were "grossly incomplete and, perhaps, inaccurate." Pinder claimed that he was in tenth grade at Hawksbill during the 1971–72 school year which meant that his Northwestern eligibility expired after the 1973–74 school year; a student became ineligible for athletics in Florida four years from the time he first entered ninth grade.
On 29 April 1975, Pinder signed to play college basketball for the East Tennessee State Buccaneers. He played one season with the team and then departed because he was not happy with the coach. Pinder chose to transfer to Miami Dade College because he would have been required to sit out a year if he joined another four-year school. He averaged 18.6 points and 12 rebounds per game during the 1976–77 season at Miami Dade.
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Kendal Pinder
Kendal Nathaniel "Tiny" Pinder (born 25 April 1956) is a Bahamian former professional basketball player. He moved to the United States as a teenager and attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School in Florida. Pinder played college basketball for the East Tennessee State Buccaneers, Miami Dade Sharks and NC State Wolfpack. He started his professional career with stints in Israel and Finland; he also spent three seasons with the Harlem Globetrotters.
Pinder moved to Australia in 1985 to play in the National Basketball League (NBL) with the Sydney Supersonics and was selected to the All-NBL Team when he led the league in scoring during his first season. He joined the Perth Wildcats in 1987 and won two NBL championships with the team in 1990 and 1991. Pinder's career was interrupted in 1992 when he was imprisoned for sexual assault offences. He was released in 1995 and had his final basketball stint with the Illawarra Hawks that same year.
Pinder has since spent periods in prison for various offences. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment in 1996 for sexual assault charges involving a teenager. Pinder was imprisoned in 2021 for 15 months after being convicted of stalking a woman. In 2024, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for two sexual assaults that occurred in 2009 and 2021.
Pinder was born in The Bahamas where he was raised in Nassau and Freeport. He was nicknamed "Tiny" by his grandmother because he was small when he was young. He was a victim of violence as a child. Pinder fell through a plate glass window at the age of 12 and suffered head injuries that were potentially linked to longstanding cognitive issues. He started playing basketball as a teenager.
Pinder attended Hawksbill High School in Freeport from 1968 to 1972. He was enrolled under the name "Nathaniel Forbes" using his father's surname. Pinder did not attend school for one year.
Pinder moved to Miami, Florida, to earn a college basketball scholarship. He changed his name to "Kendal Pinder" upon his arrival for unexplained reasons. Pinder enrolled at Miami Northwestern Senior High School in 1973 but was declared ineligible to play on the basketball team during his first season because his family did not accompany him during his move. He became eligible for the 1974–75 season where he was a junior in class standing but a senior in eligibility because of the year he missed in the Bahamas. Pinder averaged 19 points per game and led Northwestern to a 25–5 record on their way to a Greater Miami Athletic Conference championship.
A 1976 investigation by The Miami News concluded that Pinder was likely ineligible to play during the 1974–75 season. Northwestern received records from Hawksbill that were "grossly incomplete and, perhaps, inaccurate." Pinder claimed that he was in tenth grade at Hawksbill during the 1971–72 school year which meant that his Northwestern eligibility expired after the 1973–74 school year; a student became ineligible for athletics in Florida four years from the time he first entered ninth grade.
On 29 April 1975, Pinder signed to play college basketball for the East Tennessee State Buccaneers. He played one season with the team and then departed because he was not happy with the coach. Pinder chose to transfer to Miami Dade College because he would have been required to sit out a year if he joined another four-year school. He averaged 18.6 points and 12 rebounds per game during the 1976–77 season at Miami Dade.