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Tanner Groves
American basketball player
Tanner John Groves (born May 22, 1999) is an American professional basketball player for the Cairns Taipans of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for the Eastern Washington Eagles and Oklahoma Sooners.
| Cairns Taipans | |
|---|---|
| Position | Power forward / center |
| League | NBL |
| Personal information | |
| Born | (1999-05-22) May 22, 1999 (age 25) Spokane, Washington, U.S. |
| Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) |
| Listed weight | 240 lb (109 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Shadle Park (Spokane, Washington) |
| College |
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| NBA draft | 2023: undrafted |
| Playing career | 2023–present |
| Career history | |
| 2023–2024 | Anwil Włocławek |
| 2024 | Xinjiang Flying Tigers |
| 2024 | SC Rasta Vechta |
| 2024–present | Cairns Taipans |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Groves was born in Spokane, Washington.[1] He attended Shadle Park High School, where he was named All-State and All-Greater Spokane League as a senior after averaging 18.2 points, 9.5 rebounds, and 1.8 blocks per game.[2]
Groves redshirted his true freshman season.[3] He played mostly off the bench as a redshirt freshman and sophomore before becoming a starter as a redshirt junior. He was named the Big Sky Conference Player of the Year for the 2020–21 season after averaging 17.9 points and 7.4 rebounds per game.[4] On April 18, 2021, he transferred to Oklahoma.[5] In 2021–22, he started in all 34 games for the Sooners, averaging 11.6 points, 5.8 rebounds, 1.6 assists per game and shooting over 38 percent from three. In 2022–23, he averaged 10.2 points, 7.2 boards and 1.1 blocks per game, recording the team-high six double-doubles.[6]
After going undrafted in the 2023 NBA draft, Groves joined the Oklahoma City Thunder for the 2023 NBA Summer League.[7] He started the 2023–24 season in Poland with Anwil Włocławek, leaving in early January 2024 to join the Xinjiang Flying Tigers in China.[8] In February 2024, he joined German team SC Rasta Vechta.[9]
On May 7, 2024, Groves signed with the Cairns Taipans in Australia for the 2024–25 NBL season.[6]
| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
College
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017–18 | Eastern Washington |  Redshirt | ||||||||||
| 2018–19 | Eastern Washington | 28 | 2 | 8.6 | .417 | .385 | .650 | 2.1 | .3 | .1 | .6 | 2.8 |
| 2019–20 | Eastern Washington | 30 | 1 | 9.9 | .589 | .424 | .636 | 2.8 | .3 | .1 | .6 | 5.1 |
| 2020–21 | Eastern Washington | 24 | 24 | 27.0 | .560 | .349 | .778 | 8.0 | 1.3 | .3 | 1.1 | 17.2 |
| 2021–22 | Oklahoma | 34 | 34 | 25.0 | .532 | .381 | .729 | 5.8 | 1.6 | .4 | .4 | 11.6 |
| 2022–23 | Oklahoma | 32 | 32 | 25.4 | .508 | .286 | .724 | 7.2 | 1.4 | .8 | 1.1 | 10.2 |
| Career | 148 | 93 | 19.3 | .532 | .353 | .733 | 5.1 | 1.0 | .3 | .7 | 9.2 | |
- "Tanner Groves". goeags.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022.
- Borzello, Jeff (April 18, 2021). "Eastern Washington transfer Tanner Groves commits to Oklahoma to play basketball, sources say". ESPN. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- "Taipans welcome Tanner Groves". Taipans.com. May 7, 2024. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
- "Two Former Oklahoma Players Land NBA Free Agent Deals". SI.com. June 23, 2023. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
- "Tanner Groves". eurobasket.com. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
- "NEUE POWER AUF FORWARD: TANNER GROVES KOMMT!". rasta-vechta.de (in German). February 21, 2024. Retrieved May 7, 2024.