{{short description|Australian basketball player and coach (born 1988)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2015}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Tyson Demos | image = | height_cm = 190 | weight_kg = 92 | position = | league = | team = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1988|7|3}} | birth_place = Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia | nationality = Australian | high_school = Figtree<br>(Wollongong, New South Wales) | career_start = 2005 | career_end = 2017 | career_position = Shooting guard | years1 = 2005 | team1 = Illawarra Seahawks | years2 = 2006–2007 | team2 = Australian Institute of Sport | years3 = 2007–2010 | team3 = Gold Coast Blaze | years4 = 2008–2010 | team4 = Brisbane Spartans | years5 = 2010–2016 | team5 = Wollongong / Illawarra Hawks | years6 = 2011–2012 | team6 = Illawarra Hawks (Waratah League) | years7 = 2015 | team7 = Mackay Meteors | years8 = 2017 | team8 = Illawarra Hawks (Waratah League) | coach_start = 2019 | cyears1 = 2019–2020 | cteam1 = Illawarra Hawks (asst.) | highlights = *QBL champion (2015) }}
'''Tyson Emmanuell Demos'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Tyson Emmanuell Demos (Australia) - Basketball Stats, Height, Age |url=https://www.fiba.basketball/en/players/159587-tyson-emmanuell-demos |website=FIBA Basketball |access-date=25 July 2025}}</ref> (born 3 July 1988) is an Australian former professional basketball player and one-time assistant coach in the National Basketball League (NBL). He played nine seasons in the NBL with the Gold Coast Blaze and Illawarra Hawks.
==Early life and career== Born and bred in the Illawarra region,<ref name=assistant>{{cite web|url=http://nbl.com.au/news/hawks-announce-nbl20-coaching-staff|title=Hawks Announce #NBL20 Coaching Staff|work=NBL.com.au|date=30 August 2019|accessdate=30 August 2019}}</ref> Demos is a junior product of the Illawarra Basketball Association and attended the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS).<ref name="Hawks profile">{{cite web|url=http://www.hawks.com.au/player_profile/tyson-demos/ |title=Tyson Demos |work=hawks.com.au |accessdate=19 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914093944/http://www.hawks.com.au/player_profile/tyson-demos/ |archivedate=14 September 2015}}</ref> In 2006 and 2007, he played for the AIS men's team in the South East Australian Basketball League.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/sports/basketball/athletes/past_athletes |title=Past Athletes |work=ausport.gov.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140212073754/http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/sports/basketball/athletes/past_athletes |archive-date=12 February 2014}}</ref> He also represented Australia at the 2007 FIBA Under-19 World Championship in Serbia.<ref name="Meteors">{{cite web|title=Meteors are pleased to announce the signing of Tyson Demos|url=http://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/meteors-are-pleased-announce-signing-tyson-demos/2556998/|work=Daily Mercury|date=26 February 2015|accessdate=19 October 2015}}</ref>
==NBL career== Demos signed his first professional contract with the Gold Coast Blaze in 2007. He played three seasons with the Blaze before returning home and joining the Wollongong Hawks for the 2010–11 NBL season. He played six seasons with the Hawks,<ref>{{cite web|title=Hawks re-sign Tyson Demos, Dan Jackson|url=http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/636005/hawks-re-sign-tyson-demos-dan-jackson/|work=Illawarra Mercury|author=Keeble, Tim|date=18 July 2011|accessdate=19 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="2012 article">{{cite web|url=http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/270681/tyson-demos-re-signs-with-hawks/|title=Tyson Demos re-signs with Hawks|date=13 June 2012|author=Barrow, Tim|work=Illawarra Mercury|accessdate=19 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Wollongong Hawks re-sign Tyson Demos|url=http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2523315/wollongong-hawks-re-sign-tyson-demos/|author=Keeble, Tim|work=Illawarra Mercury|date=29 August 2014|accessdate=19 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="2015 re-sign">{{cite web|title=ILLAWARRA JUNIOR TYSON DEMOS SIGNS WITH THE HAWKS|url=http://www.hawks.com.au/featured-news/illawarra-junior-tyson-demos-signs-with-the-hawks/|accessdate=19 October 2015|work=hawks.com.au|date=3 July 2015 }}</ref> with his sixth and final season seeing him play in just six games after sustaining a knee injury in November 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=TYSON DEMOS RULED OUT FOR THE REMAINDER OF SEASON|url=http://www.hawks.com.au/featured-news/tyson-demos-ruled-out-for-the-remainder-of-season/|date=30 November 2015|accessdate=30 November 2015|work=hawks.com.au}}</ref> He subsequently sat out the 2016–17 NBL season and did not return to the league.<ref>{{cite web|title=TYSON DEMOS TO TAKE A SEASON BREAK|url=http://www.hawks.com.au/featured-news/tyson-demos-take-season-break/|date=6 August 2016|accessdate=6 August 2016|work=hawks.com.au}}</ref>
During his NBL career, Demos played in various state leagues during the off-seasons. Between 2008 and 2010, he played in the SEABL for the Brisbane Spartans; between 2011 and 2012, he played in the Waratah League for the Illawarra Hawks; and in 2015, he played in the QBL for the Mackay Meteors and won a championship.<ref name="Meteors" />
Demos' final stint came in 2017 with the Illawarra Hawks in the Waratah League.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://websites.sportstg.com/team_info.cgi?action=PSTATS&pID=204205387&client=1-4878-68288-518543-26405897&ocompID=442675|title=Player statistics for Tyson Demos|work=SportsTG.com|accessdate=30 August 2019}}</ref>
==Coaching career== On 30 August 2019, Demos was appointed assistant coach of the Illawarra Hawks for the 2019–20 NBL season.<ref name="assistant" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150914093944/http://www.hawks.com.au/player_profile/tyson-demos/ Illawarra Hawks profile] *[http://www.foxsportspulse.com/team_info.cgi?action=PSTATS&pID=190395971&client=0-189-12315-327335-19755594 NBL stats]
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