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Russell Hinder was born on July 10, 1979, and is an Australian former professional basketball player who played 13 seasons in the NBL. In 1997, he attended the Australian Institute of Sport.

Hinder attended the University of San Francisco before transferring to Augusta State University in 2000.

He signed with the West Sydney Razorbacks and lead the team to a NBL Grand Final. His season performance got him third in the Most Improved Player award. He then went to play for the Hunter Pirates where he spent one year before they left the league.

He then joined the Sydney Kings followed by the Australian Boomers team who won the Gold Medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and also a spot at the FIBA World Championships that same year. He also led the Sydney Kings to two Grand Finals but was unsuccessful and lost to the Melbourne Tigers on both occasions. Just like the Pirates, the Kings had to fold at the end of the 2007-2008 NBL season.

Without a club, Russell was about to retire before he signed with the Townsville Crocodiles and announced that he wanted to help the Crocs win an NBL championship. The team had never won a championship and Hinder had been in three NBL finals but had never won a series. Hinder won the 2008–2009 Townsville Crocodiles' Players' Award. He was sidelined for the entire 2011–2012 NBL season with a broken leg. He retired in 2013.