Brad Oleson’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American basketball player
Is Athlete 
Basketball player 
From United States of America 
Spain 
Type Sports 
Gender male
Birth 11 April 1983, Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A.
Age: 37 years
Stats
Height: 191

Bradley Scott Oleson Lashinski (born April 11, 1983) is an American-born Spanish professional basketball player for FC Barcelona Lassa of the Liga ACB. He is a 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall point guard-shooting guard. His hometown of North Pole, Alaska, celebrates “Brad Oleson Day”, every year, on April 24.

College career

Oleson played college basketball at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Even though Alaska Fairbanks had a record of 4-23 the season before Oleson arrived at the school, in the three seasons that Oleson played with Fairbanks, the school’s record was 64-24. He also set the Great Northwest Athletic Conference record for the most Player of the Week Awards won, with 9.

Professional career

Oleson began his professional career in the year 2005, with the Dodge City Legend of the USBL. 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 Spanish ACB League club Fuenlabrada. In 2009, he was supposed to play for Real Madrid, but his rights were soon transferred to rivals Caja Laboral, in exchange for Pablo Prigioni 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.

Spanish national team

In October 2009, Oleson acquired Spanish nationality, and was selected to the senior men’s Spanish national basketball team’s training camp pre-squad for the 2010 FIBA World Championship.

Career statistics

Legend
  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  PIR  Performance Index Rating
 Bold  Career high

Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season. He also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.

EuroLeague

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2009–10 Baskonia 12 1 13.7 .408 .400 .857 .9 .4 .3 .1 5.0 2.8
2010–11 20 11 20.9 .407 .327 .800 2.1 1.1 .6 .2 6.3 4.2
2011–12 10 6 21.9 .531 .448 .917 1.4 1.7 .7 .2 7.4 7.3
2012–13 15 13 22.9 .483 .500 .786 1.3 1.5 .7 .3 8.6 7.1
2013–14 Barcelona 20 5 20.9 .470 .455 .750 1.7 1.5 .5 .4 8.9 9.1
2014–15 20 5 19.0 .419 .394 .944 1.5 2.4 .7 .2 6.5 6.7
2015–16 29 6 14.5 .316 .266 .824 1.1 1.3 .2 .0 3.2 2.6
2016–17 24 18 21.4 .682 .345 .800 1.8 2.0 .6 .2 5.3 6.0
Career 126 47 18.7 .428 .391 .821 1.4 1.4 .5 .2 6.3 5.5

Awards and accomplishments

  • Top of The World Tournament: MVP (2003)
  • 2x Great Northwest Athletic Conference: 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: All-Time Career Scoring Leader
  • NCAA Division II All-American First Team: (2005)
  • USBL All-Rookie Team: (2005)
  • USBL Champion: (2005)
  • Spanish LEB2 Champion: (2007)
  • Spanish League Rising Star Award: (2009)
  • 2x Spanish League Champion: (2010, 2014)
  • Spanish Cup Winner: (2013)
  • Spanish Supercup Winner: (2015)
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