Kendal Nathaniel "Tiny" Pinder (born 25 April 1956)[1] is a Bahamian former professional basketball player.

He moved to the United States as a teenager and attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School in Florida.

He started his professional career with stints in Israel and Finland; he also spent three seasons with the Harlem Globetrotters.

[4] Pinder fell through a plate glass window at the age of 12 and suffered head injuries that were potentially linked to longstanding cognitive issues.

[3] Pinder enrolled at Miami Northwestern Senior High School in 1973 but was declared ineligible to play on the basketball team during his first season because his family did not accompany him during his move.

[2] Pinder averaged 19 points per game and led Northwestern to a 25–5 record on their way to a Greater Miami Athletic Conference championship.

[6] On 29 April 1975, Pinder signed to play college basketball for the East Tennessee State Buccaneers.

[3] Pinder chose to transfer to Miami Dade College because he would have been required to sit out a year if he joined another four-year school.

[14] Pinder followed his Turun head coach, Paul Coughter, to the Sydney Supersonics of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL) in 1985.

[23] Following the cancellation of his Australian citizenship, Pinder was on an ex-citizen visa that enabled him to remain in Australia but did not allow him to return should he leave.

[23] The Department of Immigration and Border Protection cancelled his visa in 2017, but it was overturned in 2019 by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal despite acknowledgment that Pinder did not pass the character test.

[5] In 1976, Pinder was found guilty of unlawful carnal knowledge of a teenage girl in Miami, Florida.

[28][29] In 2001, Pinder was acquitted in the New South Wales District Court on a charge of raping a 19-year-old woman the previous year.

[5] The judge noted Pinder's impaired cognitive function in deciding his sentence, which had a maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment.