Cameron Bairstow
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| No. 41 – Brisbane Bullets | |||||||||||||
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| Position | Power forward / Center | ||||||||||||
| League | NBL | ||||||||||||
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| Born |
7 December 1990 Brisbane, Queensland |
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 250 lb (113 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school |
Runcorn State (Brisbane, Queensland) Anglican Church Grammar School (Brisbane, Queensland) |
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| College | New Mexico (2010–2014) | ||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 2014 / Round: 2 / Pick: 49th overall | ||||||||||||
| Selected by the Chicago Bulls | |||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2014–present | ||||||||||||
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| 2014–2016 | Chicago Bulls | ||||||||||||
| 2015 | →Austin Spurs | ||||||||||||
| 2016–present | Brisbane Bullets | ||||||||||||
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Cameron David Bairstow (born 7 December 1990) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Brisbane Bullets of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for the University of New Mexico before being drafted 49th overall in the 2014 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls. He spent two seasons with the Bulls before returning home and joining the Bullets in 2016.
Bairstow was born and raised in Brisbane, Australia and attended Runcorn State High School before graduating from Anglican Church Grammar School in 2008. His parents are Ian and Penny Bairstow, a veterinarian and a school teacher, who both also coach youth basketball in Australia. Bairstow is the third of seven children, with four brothers (Kieran, Jarred, Daniel, and Sean) and two sisters (Melissa and Stephanie). Two of his siblings have also played college basketball: brother Jarred at the University of Central Oklahoma and sister Stephanie at Utah State University.
Bairstow played for the South West Pirates and Brisbane Capitals youth teams before attending the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra in 2009 and 2010. He played two seasons with the AIS in the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL), and in 2010 he was a member of the SEABL Select Team that visited Qatar. He was also on the Queensland team that won the 2009 Under 20 Australian national championship, and he played on the Australian Under 19 team that won the 2009 FIBA Oceania title in Saipan.
Considered a two-star recruit by ESPN.com, Bairstow was listed as the No. 196 power forward in the nation in 2010.
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