Herbert Arnarson

{{short description|Icelandic basketball player}}

{{Icelandic name|Herbert}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Herbert Arnarson

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|5|4}}

| birth_place = Reykjavík, Iceland

| height_m = 1.95

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| position = Guard

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| high_school = Madisonville

| college = Kentucky Wesleyan (1989–1994)

| nationality = Icelandic

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| career_start = 1985

| career_end = 2003

| years1 = 1985-1986 | team1 = ÍR

| years2 = 1994–1996 | team2 = ÍR

| years3 = 1996–1997 | team3 = Donar Groningen

| years4 = 1997–1998 | team4 = Racing Antwerpen

| years5 = 1998–1999 | team5 = Grindavík

| years6 = 1999–2000 | team6 = Donar Groningen

| years7 = 2000–2001 | team7 = Valur/Fjölnir

| years8 = 2001–2003 | team8 = KR

| cyears1 = 2003–2004 | cteam1 = KR (assistant)

| cyears2 = 2004–2006 | cteam2 = KR

| cyears3 = 2013 | cteam3 = ÍR

|highlights =

• Icelandic Men's Basketball Player of the Year (1999)
• 3x Úrvalsdeild Domestic All-First team (1995, 1996, 1999)
• Úrvalsdeild Domestic Player of the Year (1995)
• Úrvalsdeild Young Player of the Year (1995)
• NCAA Division II champion (1990)
• Icelandic Supercup (1998)

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{{MedalSport|Men's basketball}}

{{MedalCountry|{{bk|ISL}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|Games of the Small States of Europe}}

{{MedalGold|1993 Malta|Team}}}}

Herbert Svavar Arnarson (born May 4, 1970) is an Icelandic former basketball player and a former member of Icelandic national team. In 1995, he was the second player to be named both the Úrvalsdeild karla Domestic Player of the Year and the Young Player of the Year in the same season.{{cite news|title=Herbert Arnarson nýliði ársins og sá besti|url=http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pageId=1828117|accessdate=5 February 2018|work=Morgunblaðið|date=13 April 1995|language=Icelandic}} In 1998 he helped Racing Antwerpen to the Belgian Basketball League finals{{cite news|author1=Valur B. Jónatansson|title=Getum bjargað heiðri Antwerpen|url=http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pageId=1904685|accessdate=5 February 2018|work=Morgunblaðið|date=8 May 1998|language=Icelandic}} where it lost to Spirou Charleroi.