Ville Tahvanainen (born 30 June 2000), is a Finnish professional

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player for

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in the Portuguese Basketball League.

Career

Tahvanainen started his career with NMKY Helsinki and

HBA-Märsky HBA-Märsky is a Finnish basketball club, administrated by the Helsinki Basketball Academy. Their home arena is in URHEA Campus in :fi:Mäkelänkatu, Mäkelänrinne, Vallila, Helsinki, which also serves as the National Olympic Training Center. He ...

, before moving to the United States to start college in Bradley in 2019. After a season in Iceland as a professional with

Haukar Knattspyrnufélagið Haukar (, ) is an Icelandic multi-sport club from Hafnarfjörður with divisions in Association football, Football, Haukar Handball, Handball, Basketball, Haukar RC, Rugby union, Karate, Skiing & Chess. Club history The clu ...

and

Álftanes Álftanes () is the name of a town and a collection of small peninsulas in Iceland. It means ''swan peninsula''. The best known of these peninsulas extrudes from the eastern part of Reykjanes with the town of the same name in the Capital Region ...

, Tahvanainen signed with

in the

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in September 2024.

National team

Tahvanainen debuted in the

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in 2018 at the age of 18.Ville Tahvanainen player profile
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Personal life

His father Mika-Matti Tahvanainen is a former professional basketball player who represented Finland national team in 54 games, and his brother Joonas is also a former player who played also for

and college basketball in the United States.

Career statistics

College

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2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

, style="text-align:left;", Bradley , 27 , , 17 , , 28.0 , , .422 , , .338 , , .818 , , 3.0 , , 1.6 , , .6 , , 0 , , 8.6 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2021–22 , style="text-align:left;", Bradley , 28 , , 12 , , 22.8 , , .357 , , .362 , , .913 , , 2.5 , , .8 , , .6 , , .2 , , 7.1 , - , style="text-align:left;",

2022–23 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

, style="text-align:left;", Bradley , 34 , , 3 , , 22.2 , , .444 , , .368 , , .826 , , 3.3 , , 1.3 , , .5 , , .1 , , 6.7 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 122 , , 34 , , 23.0 , , .421 , , .363 , , .851 , , 2.8 , , 1.2 , , .5 , , .1 , , 7.2

References

External links

Bradley Braves profileProBallers profileRealGM profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tahvanainen, Ville 2000 births Living people Basketball players from Helsinki Finnish expatriate basketball people in Iceland Finnish expatriate basketball people in the United States Finnish men's basketball players Shooting guards HBA-Märsky players Bradley Braves men's basketball players Haukar men's basketball players Álftanes men's basketball players Finnish expatriate basketball people in Portugal NMKY Helsinki players 21st-century Finnish sportsmen