This 2024/25 season the Endesa League will once again welcome players with experience in the most important league in world basketball, the North American NBA. There are those who already know the vicissitudes of the ACB because they have been there before, but for others it will be the first stage in it. Below we review all those who fall into this last category along with their height and age.
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Presentation of the Endesa League 2024/25.
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Chimezie Metu (208 centimeters, 27 years old)
In Peñarroya’s new Barça there are other additions who have been in the NBA, like Justin Anderson, others who have had it very close, like Kevin Punter, and others who are called to go there one day, like Juan Núñez. The one that meets the requirement of these lines is Chimezie Metu. The Nigerian international, born in California, has extensive experience. He studied at USC, from which Bronny James left this summer, and was chosen by the Spurs in 2018. He has been in franchises such as the Kings, the Suns or the Pistons, in addition to the Texan one. His averages to date remain at 5.9 points and 3.5 rebounds in 260 games in the so-called regular phase.
Killian Tillie (206 centimeters, 26 years old)
Counting on the fact that his brother Kim can advise him on this experience, because he was in Murcia, Baskonia and Gran Canaria, Killian was a star at Gonzaga who aimed high for scouts and faded as time went by. So much so that, having signed for the Memphis Grizzlies and having his opportunity to play there, he had been in dry dock for two years. Unicaja de Málaga will test his back, the battered part of the body of this Frenchman who wants to recover all the shine possible.
Sekou Doumbouya (206 centimeters, 23 years old)
He was on trial at Palencia Baloncesto last season, he completed training with them, but he didn’t move on from there. This promise from Conakri went from being the 15th in the 2019 Draft, chosen by the Pistons who soon gave up, to going to the Lakers and the Sixers affiliate, passing without pain or glory. Poor background in 96 games. His three-point percentage is 25% correct. Now he will try to climb the ladder at Andorra.
Kaiser Gates (201 centimeters, 27 years old)
He has moved more through the G-League than the main one, but he has one appointment in the NBA: on October 30, 2023, he played a Pelicans-Warriors game in which he played seven minutes without scoring. He has been in the affiliates of the Bulls, Celtics, Nets and the aforementioned Pels, meanwhile he entertained himself in Jerusalem, and is one of Joventut’s breakthrough signings.
Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot (201 centimeters, 29 years old)
He comes from ASVEL, which caught him last season when it was Olimpia Milan that had signed his return to Europe, but we do see extensive experience in the NBA in him. There were six seasons with a total of 328 games under his belt. He was part of the Sixers, Thunder, Bulls, Nets and Hawks, his last company. In Brooklyn, the best numbers: in 2019/20 their points reached 7.8 on average. This project from Antibes, from the factory of agent Misko Raznatovic, arrives in Baskonia with appetite and bite.
Xavier Rathan-Mayes (193 centimeters, 30 years old)
Real Madrid’s brand new signing after his time in Russia, Enisey, in which he stood out as an obsessive scorer. At university, where he had met Andrew Wiggins, this Canadian with an ex-ACB stepfather (Tharon, he was in Granada and Murcia) had a huge explosion: 30 points in 4:39. In the club that Chus Mateo coaches, he has many teammates who know what a long career in the NBA is; for example, another signing like Serge Ibaka; Another of the new ones is the returned Usman Garuba. In the case of Xavier, he has five games recorded in the NBA, specifically in the 2017/18 campaign, in which he averaged 5.8 points and 3.6 rebounds with 23.6 minutes of presence.
Caleb Homesley (198 centimeters, 27 years old)
He is not an NBA player as such. We have seen him in the summer league with the Wizards and Jazz, but he didn’t go beyond there. Its new president, Sitapha Savane, grew up and studied in the United States but was left without trying that basketball. Both will coincide at Dreamland Gran Canaria. Homesley comes from Turkish side Tofas Bursa and we have also seen him previously at Hamburg and Zenit.
Trent Forrest (193 centimeters, 26 years old)
Baskonia has signed him as a replacement for Miller-McIntyre. He is a point guard with a physical profile, more of a defender than an attacker, and whose professional experience is summarized in two NBA franchises: Jazz and Hawks. There were 151 games played there.
Donta Hall (206 centimeters, 27 years old)
Baskonia also has height with Hall, who arrives from Monaco. He stands out for the height at which he plays and, above all, his fantastic dunks. He has 4.3 points and 4.2 rebounds in the only nine games he accumulated between the Pistons and Nets.
