Tshilidzi Nephawe (born 10 June 1989) is a South African professional
basketball
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player for the
Niigata Albirex BB
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Outline
The club was founded in 1954 as the company team of Daiwa Securities, a Tokyo-based securities brokerage. In 1 ...
of the Japanese
B.League
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.
Nephawe attended ''Mphaphuli Secondary School'' near
Thohoyandou
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and played for
Limpopo
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‘s provincial teams at a young age.
Rural boy to play basketball overseas
Elmon Tshikhudo (Zoutnet.co.za), 21 November 2008. Accessed 2 May 2017. He went on to New Mexico State University
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, where he was a teammate of future NBA
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player Pascal Siakam
Pascal Siakam (born 2 April 1994) is a Cameroonian professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Siakam played college basketball for the New Mexico State Aggies and was named the Western At ...
.
References
External links
Afrobasket.com profile
ESPN profile
New Mexico State bioNew Mexico State Aggies bio
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1989 births
Living people
Bambitious Nara players
Centers (basketball)
Fukushima Firebonds players
Kumamoto Volters players
New Mexico State Aggies men's basketball players
Sendai 89ers players
South African men's basketball players
Sportspeople from Johannesburg