Background
His father is former NFL running-back John Tarver.
His father is former NFL running-back John Tarver.
Tarver played for the Oregon State Beavers in college and graduated in 2010 with a degree in business.
Coming out of high school he was widely considered as Oregon"s best senior basketball player. He also ran track and field in high school competing in the 4x100 and 4x400 relays. Tarver missed most of his freshman year at Oregon State with a minor case of plantar fasciitis.
In his sophomore year Tarver started a team high 27 games and lead the Beavers in minutes per game.
Tarver"s junior season he helped lead Oregon State to the 2009 China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations Title and was named to the honorable mention Pac-10 all-defensive team Tarver"s senior season at Oregon State was his best season.
Tarver was the first Oregon State player to lead the Pac-10 in steals since Gary Payton in 1990. After his senior season at Oregon State Tarver entered the 2010 National Basketball Association Draft.
However, he went undrafted.
He would later receive an invite to the Portland Trail Blazers pre-season team Tarver played the 2010 National Basketball Association pre-season with the Blazers before being signed to the Idaho Stampede, a Blazers Doctorate-League affiliate. In July 2011 he signed a one-year deal with EnBW Ludwigsburg in Germany.
He left the club before playing a game for them.
Tarver returned to the Stampede for the 2011-2012 season and remained on the roster until he was traded to the Sioux Falls Skyforce in February 2013. In 2013 Tarver signed with Rizing Fukuoka and began his basketball career in Japan.