Swen Nater

Swen Erick Nater, born January 14, 1950, in Den Helder, Netherlands, is a Dutch former professional basketball player who competed primarily in the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, winning two National Collegiate Athletic Association titles. Nater is the only player to have led both the NBA and the ABA in rebounding. He was named the ABA Rookie of the Year in 1974 and was a two-time ABA All-Star.

Nater's parents divorced when he was three years old. After his mother remarried and the family's economic situation deteriorated, she, her husband, and Nater's younger brother moved to the United States, leaving Nater and his sister behind in an orphanage. After three years, it appeared the two siblings would remain in the Netherlands, until the television program It Could Be You—a forerunner to This Is Your Life—discovered the situation and brought them to America to be reunited with the rest of the family on the air. At age nine, he had arrived in a new country without speaking a word of English. He took his stepfather's name and was known as Swen Langeberg.