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Nate Grimes
American basketball player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nathanial Paul Grimes[1] (born May 1, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Borneo Hornbills of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL). He played college basketball for the Fresno State Bulldogs.
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Early life
Grimes began his high school career at Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. For his senior season, Grimes transferred to Quality Education Academy in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with whom in 24 games he averaged 13.6 points, 9.3 rebounds, 1.7 steals, and 1.4 assists per game.[2] In September 2014, he committed to play college basketball at Fresno State over offers from Boise State, Iowa, San Francisco, Utah State, Washington State and Wichita State.[3]
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College career
Grimes redshirted his freshman season. He averaged 1.7 points and 1.8 rebounds per game as a redshirt freshman.[4] As a sophomore, Grimes averaged 4.6 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 1.1 blocks (7th in the conference) per game.[5] He was third in the country in total rebounds per minute (0.44 rebounds per minute played).[4]
He averaged 11.8 points, 9.2 rebounds per game (3rd in the conference), and 1.7 blocks per game (2nd), while leading the conference with a two-point .625 field goal percentage, as a junior.[5][6] On January 25, 2020, Grimes was suspended for one game for conduct detrimental to the team.[7][8]
As a senior, he averaged 11.5 points and 10.2 rebounds per game (3rd in the conference), while leading the conference with 1.6 blocks per game.[5][6] Grimes was named to the Third Team All-Mountain West by the media.[9] On March 16, 2020, Grimes was arrested and charged on suspicion of inflicting corporal injury to a spouse/cohabitant.[10][11]
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Professional career
On September 24, 2020, Grimes signed his first professional contract with Kobrat of the Korisliiga.[12] He averaged 16.7 points, 12.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game.
On June 30, 2021, Grimes signed with Kangoeroes Basket Mechelen of the BNXT League.[13] He averaged 18.0 points, 11.9 rebounds, 1.4 steals, and 1.0 block per game in eight games.
On February 19, 2022, Grimes signed with BG Göttingen of the Basketball Bundesliga.[14] In 16 games he averaged 6.1 points, 5.2 rebounds, 0.5 blocks, and 16.5 minutes per game.[15]
On August 4, 2022, he signed with Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. Grimes joined Sigal Prishtina of the Kosovo Basketball League on February 6, 2023.[16]
On July 10, 2023, Grimes signed with Iwate Big Bulls of the Japanese B.League.[17] On November 17, his contract was terminated.[18]
On July 22, 2024, Grimes signed with the Assigeco Piacenza of the Serie A2.[19] On January 16, 2025, his contract was terminated.[20] On March 9, he signed with the Borneo Hornbills of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL), replacing Devondrick Walker.[1]
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