No. 4 – Super City Rangers | |||||||||||||
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Position | Point guard / Shooting guard | ||||||||||||
League | NZNBL | ||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||
Born |
Sydney, New South Wales |
8 January 1982 ||||||||||||
Nationality | New Zealand | ||||||||||||
Listed height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||
Listed weight | 91 kg (201 lb) | ||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||
High school |
Avondale College (Auckland, New Zealand) |
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Playing career | 2000–present | ||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||
2000–2007 | Auckland Rebels/Stars | ||||||||||||
2002–2003 | Victoria Giants | ||||||||||||
2003–2006 | New Zealand Breakers | ||||||||||||
2006–2007 | BC Boncourt | ||||||||||||
2007–2009 | Wollongong Hawks | ||||||||||||
2008–2011 | Wellington Saints | ||||||||||||
2010–2011 | Cairns Taipans | ||||||||||||
2012 | Auckland Pirates | ||||||||||||
2013–2015 | Wellington Saints | ||||||||||||
2016–present | Super City Rangers | ||||||||||||
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Lindsay Michael Tait (born 8 January 1982) is a New Zealand professional basketball player of Māori descent who currently plays for the Super City Rangers of the New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL).
Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Tait moved to Auckland as a four-year-old and later attended Avondale College where he was a member of the first Avondale team ever to win a New Zealand Secondary Schools Championship in 1999. Tait was awarded the Most Valuable Player award for the tournament.
In 2000, Tait joined the Auckland Rebels of the New Zealand National Basketball League where he went on to play eight seasons for the club, winning three championships (2000, 2004 and 2005) and earned league MVP in 2005. During this time, he also played in the Australian National Basketball League for the Victoria Giants in 2002–03 as a development player, and the New Zealand Breakers from 2003 to 2006. He also played in Switzerland for BC Boncourt in 2006–07.
After an injury-riddled season for the Wollongong Hawks in 2007–08, Tait returned to New Zealand where he played for the Wellington Saints during the 2008 New Zealand NBL season before re-joining Wollongong for the 2008–09 NBL season. He went on to play a further three seasons for Wellington and won back-to-back championships (2010 and 2011) for the second time in his career. He also earned back-to-back Finals MVP honours in 2010 and 2011.