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Terell Parks

American basketball player (born 1991)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ29846952
Source-derived summary

Terell Allen Parks Sr. (born February 25, 1991) is an American professional basketball player. He is a 6-foot-9-inch (2.06 m) center. After two years at Iowa Central Community College and two years at Western Illinois, Parks entered the 2013 NBA draft, but he was not selected in the draft's two rounds.

High school career

Parks attended Beloit Memorial High School, in Beloit, Wisconsin, where he played high school basketball. He was ranked as the 25th best power forward in the nation by 247Sports.com.

College career

Parks played college basketball at Iowa Central Community College, from 2009 to 2011, and at Western Illinois, from 2011 to 2013. As a senior, he averaged 12.6 points, 9.6 rebounds, and 2.5 blocks per game.

Professional career

After failing to be drafted in the 2013 NBA draft, Parks signed with Kolossos Rodou of the Greek Basket League, but he left the team without playing with them in a single game. He later joined Kotwica Kołobrzeg, of the Polish Basketball League (PLK).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Terell Parks” as american basketball player (born 1991). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2013, 2009, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-02-25. The account is most persuasive where Terell, Parks and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american basketball player (born 1991). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q29846952. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 2013, 2009 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from Terell Parks” 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.