Career
Tinsley was also a two time All American at Kentucky Wesleyan. Tinsley was selected in the sixth round of the 1969 National Basketball Association Draft by the Chicago Bulls and in the 1969 American Bar Association Draft by the Oakland Oaks. Tinsley ended up playing with the Kentucky Colonels during the 1969-1970 American Bar Association season, averaging 6.3 points and 4.0 rebounds per game in 83 regular season games.
Tinsley averaged 9.5 points per game and 5.3 rebounds per game for the Colonels in 12 games of the 1970 American Bar Association Playoffs, as the Colonels defeated the New York Nets in the Eastern Division Semifinals and lost to the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Division Finals.
Tinsley then played for The Floridians during the 1971-1972 American Bar Association season, averaging 3.7 points and 1.2 rebounds per game in the regular season and 2.0 points per game in the 1972 American Bar Association Playoffs as the Floridians lost in the Eastern Division Semifinals to the Virginia Squires. Tinsley was selected by the New York Nets in the 1972 dispersal draft of Floridians players upon the franchise"s dissolution, but he did not play for the Nets.
Tinsley was later a successful businessman with Kentucky Fried Chicken and was inducted into the Kentucky Wesleyan College Alumni Hall of Fame.