| Kendall Gray | |
| Position: | Center |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 10 |
| Weight Lb: | 130 |
| League: | YouTube |
| Team: | REG |
| Nationality: | American / Rwandan |
| Birth Date: | 5 May 1992 |
| Birth Place: | Merced, California |
| High School: | Polytech (Woodside, Delaware) |
| College: | Delaware State (2011–2015) |
| Draft Year: | 2015 |
| Career Start: | 2015 |
| Years1: | 2015–2016 |
| Team1: | Bayreuth |
| Years2: | 2016–2017 |
| Team2: | Dąbrowa Górnicza |
| Years3: | 2017–2018 |
| Team3: | Long Island Nets |
| Years4: | 2018 |
| Team4: | Soles de Santo Domingo Este |
| Years5: | 2018–2019 |
| Team5: | Long Island Nets |
| Years6: | 2019–2020 |
| Team6: | Gießen 46ers |
| Years7: | 2021–2022 |
| Team7: | JS Kairouan |
| Highlights: |
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| Years8: | 2022 |
| Team8: | Patriots |
| Years9: | 2022 |
| Team9: | Bangui Sporting Club |
| Years10: | 2023–present |
| Team10: | REG |
Kendall Lamar Gray (born May 5, 1992) is an American-born Rwandan basketball player who currently plays for REG. He played college basketball for Delaware State University, being named the 2014–15 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Player of the Year, becoming the fourth selection in school history to earn the honor.
Gray was born in Merced, California but grew up in Dover, Delaware.[1] He earned three varsity letters while playing at Polytech High School in Woodside, Delaware.[1] In 2010, he led the team to a Henlopen Conference Southern Division Championship.[1] In Gray's his senior season he averaged 15 points, 12 rebounds, and 11 blocks per game.[1] He then committed to play for the Delaware State Hornets in college.
Although limited to just 17 games his freshman season, Gray still earned two Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Defensive Player of the Week awards.[1] He was ninth in NCAA Division I in blocks (54) when he went down with an injury.[1] He remained healthy for the final three seasons of his collegiate career and improved statistically in each successive year. As a junior in 2013–14 he averaged 11.5 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 2.7 blocks per game en route to a Second Team All-MEAC selection.[1] [2] In 2014–15, Gray increased those averages to 12.3, 12.4, and 2.8, respectively.[2] On March 5, 2015, Gray recorded a 33-point, 30-rebound game against Coppin State.[3] It was the most rebounds in a single game at the Division I level in 10 years, and he became just the seventh player in the last 40 seasons with at least 30 rebounds in a game.[3] The next day, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference named Gray their Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year.[4] He joined Kyle O'Quinn as the only two players in conference history to earn both awards in the same season.[4]
After going undrafted in the 2015 NBA draft, Gray signed with Medi Bayreuth of the Basketball Bundesliga on July 23, 2015.[5] On January 18, 2016, he parted ways with Medi Bayreuth.[6] On March 31, he was acquired by the Iowa Energy of the NBA Development League[7] but didn't play for them.
On August 23, 2016, Gray signed with MKS Dąbrowa Górnicza of the Polish League.[8]
On June 6, 2018, Gray signed with Soles de Santo Domingo Este of the Dominican League.[9] Gray rejoined the Long Island Nets for the 2018–19 season.[10]
On September 16, 2019, he signed with Gießen 46ers of the Basketball Bundesliga.[11] Gray averaged 3.3 points and 1.9 rebounds per game. On October 11, 2021, he signed with JS Kairouan of the Championnat National A.[12]
In August 2022, Gray joined Patriots BBC on a short-term contract to play in the playoffs of the Rwanda Basketball League (RBL).[13] He was selected to play in the RBL All-Star Game.[14]
In November 2022, Gray played for the Bangui Sporting Club in the Elite 16 of the 2023 Road to BAL games.[15]
In October 2023, Gray joined the Rwandan club REG for the 2023–24 season, to begin his second stint in the Rwanda Basketball League.[16]
Gray joined the Rwanda national basketball team in 2022.[17] He won a bronze medal at the 2023 FIBA AfroCan in Angola, the country's first podium finish in an international tournament.[18]