Le'Bryan Nash | |
Position: | Small forward |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 7 |
Weight Lb: | 225 |
League: | IBL |
Team: | RANS Simba Bogor |
Number: | 23 |
Birth Date: | 30 June 1992 |
Birth Place: | Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
High School: | Lincoln (Dallas, Texas) |
College: | Oklahoma State (2011–2015) |
Draft Year: | 2015 |
Career Start: | 2015 |
Years1: | 2015–2016 |
Team1: | Fukushima Firebonds |
Years2: | 2016–2017 |
Team2: | Rio Grande Valley Vipers |
Years3: | 2017–2018 |
Team3: | Busan KT Sonicboom |
Years4: | 2018–2019 |
Team4: | Tokyo Hachioji Bee Trains |
Years5: | 2019–2020 |
Team5: | Peñarol |
Years6: | 2020 |
Team6: | Maccabi Haifa |
Years7: | 2023-present |
Team7: | RANS Simba Bogor |
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Le'Bryan Keithdrick Nash (born June 30, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the RANS Simba Bogor of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL). He played college basketball for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
Nash attended Lincoln High School. He was rated as the #6 player by Rivals.com,[1] and the #8 player by Scout.com.[2] In the ESPNU 100 basketball rankings, Nash was the 3rd ranked small forward in his class.[3]
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On October 21, 2010, Nash committed and signed to play basketball with Oklahoma State University after visiting the campus on August 20 of the same year.[4] Oklahoma State Cowboys head coach Travis Ford stated that Le'Bryan Nash's arrival to the Cowboys basketball team "makes us better immediately."[5]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2011–12| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma State| 28 || 23 || 25.1 || .394 || .235 || .730 || 5.0 || 1.5 || 0.6 || 0.4 || 13.3|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2012–13| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma State| 33 || 32 || 31.9 || .462 || .240 || .741 || 4.1 || 1.8 || 0.6 || 0.2 || 14.0|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2013–14| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma State| 34 || 34 || 29.9 || .520 || .000 || .739 || 5.5 || 1.6 || 0.5 || 0.8 || 13.9|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2014–15| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma State| 31 || 31 || 31.7 || .462 || .100 || .791 || 5.7 || 2.0 || 0.8 || 0.9 || 17.2|-| style="text-align:left;"| Career| style="text-align:left;"| Oklahoma State| 126 || 120 || 30.9 || .460 || .208 || .754 || 5.1 || 1.7 || 0.6 || 0.6 || 14.6
After going undrafted in the 2015 NBA draft,[6] Nash signed a one-season contract with the Fukushima Firebonds of the Japanese bj league in September 2015 and made his professional debut in the season-opening match against the Yokohama B-Corsairs on October 3, 2015.[7] [8] On February 28, 2016 he scored 54 points in a game against the Shinshu Brave Warriors, the highest score in the league's 10-year history and passing the previous total of 53 points set by Rizing Fukuoka's Michael Parker in November 2010.[9]
On October 22, 2016, Nash signed with the Houston Rockets,[10] but was waived two days later.[11] On October 31, 2016, he was acquired by the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA Development League as an affiliate player of the Rockets.[12] On February 16, 2017, Nash was waived by the Vipers.[13]
On December 24, 2017, Nash signed with Busan KT Sonicboom of the Korean Basketball League.[14]
On March 23, 2018, Nash signed a 10-day contract with the Houston Rockets.[15] However he was waived on March 31 without playing a game for the Rockets.[16]
On August 24, 2018, Tokyo Hachioji Bee Trains of the B.League had been reported to have tabbed Nash.[17]
After spending the 2019–20 season with Peñarol in Uruguay where he averaged 19.8 points per game, Nash signed with Maccabi Haifa of the Israeli Premier League on August 14, 2020.[18] In the first two games, he averaged 14.5 points and 6.5 rebounds per game. He was released by the team due to disciplinary reasons on October 24, 2020.[19]
Nash became a father in September 2014 to a daughter, LeKenleigh Nash.[6]