Tyrone Brazelton (born March 30, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for

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of the NBL. He plays at the

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position. He won a Polish Championship in 2009 with the club Prokom. On October 2, 2016, Brazelton won the Polish Super-Cup and was named the MVP.

College career

Born in

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, Brazelton initially played basketball for the

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, but transferred to the rival

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during his senior year. He led the latter team to a championship in the Big Dipper tournament and was named as the most valuable player of the tournament. After graduation, Brazelton played for the Missouri State University-West Plains basketball team, transferring to the Western Kentucky University basketball team his junior year. Missouri State University-West Plains participated in the

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sports and Western Kentucky – in

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sports. He led the latter team in double–digit scoring figures during his junior and senior years of college, making the All-Sun Belt Second Team at the end of his senior year. Brazelton went undrafted at the

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. He then played with the Utah Jazz's

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team, appearing in two games and averaging 12 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists per game.

Professional career

Failing to impress the NBA scouts, Brazelton moved to Europe and signed with a Latvian team

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playing in the

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tournament. Although he led the team from the very start, his efforts were not enough to carry the team to the Top 16 phase of the tournament. Shortly after the tournament loss to Cajasol Sevilla, Brazelton moved to

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. Playing in the Euroleague, he averaged 3.7 points, 1.5 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game, shooting 26% from the field. In August 2009, he re-signed with Prokom for one more season. He was released from the team in November 2009. In January 2011, he moved to Germany and played for

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. During the 2011–12 season, Brazelton played in the

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with Erie BayHawks. He averaged 9.2 points, 2.3 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game, playing 29 minutes a game and shooting 39% from the field. In August 2012, Brazelton once again moved to Germany and signed with

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. In November, he moved to

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of Ukraine. In April 2013, he signed with the Iranian club Petrochimi. In August, he moved to the Lithuanian club

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. In January 2014, he signed with the Belarusian team Tsmoki-Minsk. In April 2014, he returned to Lithuania and signed with

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for the rest of the season. In August 2014, he signed a one-year deal with

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of the French

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. On July 2, 2015, Brazelton signed a two-year deal with

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of the

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. In December 2015, he parted ways with Konyaspor after averaging 10.7 points and 5 assists per game. On December 19, 2015, he signed with a two-year contract with

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of the LNB Pro A. At the end of the 2015–16 season, he parted ways with Gravelines. On July 26, 2016, Brazelton signed with Polish club

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for the 2016–17 season. On April 18, 2017, he signed Guizhou of China for the 2017 NBL season. On October 29, 2017, Brazeltone signed with Istanbulspor Beylikduzu of the

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. In February 2018, Brazelton moved to

Panionios Panionios G.S.S. Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ.), the ''Pan-Ionian Gymnastics Club of Smyrna'' (Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, ''Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis''), ...

in Greece and then spent the entire 2018–2019 season with Ifaistos Limnou, averaging 9.2 points, 2.3 rebounds and 4.3 assists in 24 games. On August 5, 2019, Brazelton signed with his third

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club, Kolossos Rodou.

The Basketball Tournament

In 2017, Brazelton played for the Kentucky Kings of

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. Brazelton scored 6.5 PPG to help his team make it to the second round. The Basketball Tournament is a winner-take-all tournament broadcast on ESPN with a winning purse of $2 million.

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