Kendal Pinder
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| Born | 25 April 1956 The Bahamas |
| Listed height | 203 cm (6 ft 8 in) |
| Listed weight | 95 kg (209 lb) |
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| NBA draft | 1979: 5th round, 101st overall pick |
| Drafted by | Atlanta Hawks |
| Playing career | 1979–1992, 1995 |
| Position | Power forward / center |
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| 1979–1980 | Hapoel Jerusalem |
| 1984–1985 | Turun NMKY |
| 1985–1986 | Sydney Supersonics |
| 1987–1992 | Perth Wildcats |
| 1995 | Illawarra Hawks |
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| Stats at Basketball Reference | |
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.