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Nick Spires

British-Swedish basketball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ18417235 ↗
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Nicholas Spires (born 25 February 1994) is an England-born Swedish professional basketball player.

In the past, he played for Spójnia Stargard of the Polish Basketball League (PLK).

He has played professionally in several countries, including Sweden and Spain. On 22 July 2020 Spires signed with Real Betis. On 9 December 2021 Spires signed with Spójnia Stargard.

He has been a member of the Swedish national basketball team.

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The public source identifies “Nick Spires” as british-Swedish basketball player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nick, Spires and British-Swedish.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2020, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-02-25. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nick, Spires and British-Swedish providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18417235. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2020 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nick Spires” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.