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born 1975 · South Bend by birth and formation
Lee Nailon was born February 22, 1975, in South Bend, and at Clay High School, alongside the sophomore Jaraan Cornell, he led the Colonials to the 1994 Indiana state championship. His road ran the long way: Southeastern Iowa Community College, then Butler Community College, then Texas Christian, where he became a third-team All-American and the Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year in 1998, twice a first-team All-WAC selection. Charlotte took him 43rd overall in the 1999 draft, and he played six NBA seasons across seven teams — Charlotte, Atlanta, Cleveland, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia and the New Orleans club among them. The largest chapter came overseas: with Bnei HaSharon he was the Israeli Basketball Premier League's Most Valuable Player in 2007 and its top scorer in 2011, and in 2018 the BIG3 league drafted him sixth overall, for the Ghost Ballers. A state champion at Clay, a conference player of the year at TCU, an MVP in Israel: the career is documented at every stop, and it started here.
Sources
- Basketball-Reference — the South Bend birth, Clay High School, the 43rd overall selection of 1999 and the NBA seasons.
- The standard player record — the 1994 state championship with Cornell, the junior-college route, the TCU honors, the Israeli MVP award of 2007 and scoring title of 2011, the BIG3 selection.