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Tolliver signs with 11th NBA team in 13 years

Fred Jeter | 4/29/2021, 6 p.m.
Anthony Tolliver gets around.
Anthony Tolliver

Anthony Tolliver gets around.

By signing a 10-day contract April 10 with the Philadelphia 76ers, the 35-year-old Tolliver, who has been a professional ballplayer since 2008, has now played for 11 NBA franchises.

On April 22, he signed a second, 10-day contract with the 76ers.

Tolliver previously has played for the San Antonio Spurs, the Portland Trail Blazers (on two different occasions), the Golden State Warriors, the Minnesota Timberwolves (two stints), the Atlanta Hawks, the Charlotte Bobcats, the Phoenix Suns, the Detroit Pistons (two stints), the Sacramento Kings and the Memphis Grizzlies.

Also, he has played for the Iowa Energy, the Austin Toros and Idaho Stampede in the G-League and in pro leagues in Germany and Turkey.

Tolliver, a 6-foot-8 power forward out of Creighton University, has averaged 6.2 points and 3.3 rebounds over 719 NBA games. He has hit 37 percent of his 3-point shots during his pro career.

Through games of April 24, Tolliver appeared in three games off the bench for the 76ers, averaging 13.3 minutes per contest.

The record for the most franchises a player has been with is 12, shared by Chucky Brown, Joe Jackson, Tony Massenburg and Joe Smith.