Bradley Scott Oleson Lashinski (born April 11, 1983) is an American-born naturalized Spanish former professional basketball player. He is a tall

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. His hometown of

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, celebrates Brad Oleson Day every year on April 24.

Professional career

Oleson began his professional career in the year 2005, with the Dodge City Legend of the

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. He then moved to Rosalía de Castro, where he first played in the Spanish LEB2 League, and then later in the Spanish LEB League. In 2008, he joined the

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club

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. In 2009, he was supposed to play for

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, but his rights were soon transferred to rivals Caja Laboral, in exchange for

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and Sergi Vidal. On 28 January 2013, Oleson signed a two-year deal with the Spanish team FC Barcelona Regal. On March 3, 2015, he signed a two-year extension with the club. On 13 July 2017, Oleson signed a two-year contract with Spanish club UCAM Murcia.

Spain national team

In October 2009, Oleson acquired Spanish nationality, and was selected to the senior men's Spain national team training camp pre-squad for the

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Career statistics

EuroLeague

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Awards and accomplishments

*Top of The World Tournament:

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(2003) *2x

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: Steals Leader (2003, 2005) *2x Great Northwest Athletic Conference: Scoring Leader (2004, 2005) *2x Great Northwest Athletic Conference: Player of the Year (2004, 2005) *Great Northwest Athletic Conference: 3 Point Shots Made Leader (2005) *

University of Alaska Fairbanks The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-, National Sea Grant College Program, sea-, and National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, space-grant research university in ...

: All-Time Career Scoring Leader *

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All-American First Team: (2005) *

All-Rookie Team: (2005) *

Champion: (2005) * Spanish LEB2 Champion: (2007) * Spanish League Rising Star Award: (2009) *2x Spanish League Champion: (

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

) * Spanish Cup Winner: (

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

) * Spanish Supercup Winner: (

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

)

Professional career

Spain national team

Career statistics

EuroLeague

Awards and accomplishments

References

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