Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Tyler Bey was born on September 28, 2000 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a forward in the NBA.

Bey was born and brought up in Las Vegas and started playing competitive basketball in eighth grade. He played for Las Vegas High School in Sunrise Manor, Nevada, where he averaged 17 points, 7.3 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game as a junior. Bey transferred to Middlebrooks Academy, a prep school in Los Angeles, where he attracted more interest from NCAA Division I programs and received scholarship offers from UNLV, San Diego State, Arizona State and Utah. On September 10, 2016, he committed to play college basketball for Colorado.

As a sophomore. He was named to the First Team All-Pac 12 and became the second Colorado player in four years to win the league's Most Improved Player award. At the conclusion of the regular season, Bey was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year and was selected to the Second Team All-Pac-12.

Bey was selected 36th overall in the 2020 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers. Shortly after he was traded to the Dallas Mavericks.