Unicaja has been reinforced by French power forward Killian Tillie

Unicaja has signed French power forward Killian Tillie, who will arrive at the Costa del Sol team after being in the last NBA Summer League.

The 26-year-old, 2.08 meter tall player has already passed the medical with his new club after being this summer with the Boston Celtics, with whom he has averaged 8.4 points (56.3 percent on 2-point shots and 41.2 on triples), 3.8 rebounds and a block in 17.6 minutes of play in the five games he played.

According to Unicaja, Tillie is a “versatile power forward, with the ability to play in the post and open up the field thanks to good outside shooting. “To this, he also adds good qualities both for passing and blocking,” he said of the Frenchman, typical of the low French callswith which he managed to win the European Under-16 Championship in 2014, also as the ‘MVP’. After that, he made the jump to the United States, where he was part of Gonzaga University for four seasons (2016-2020), averaging 13.6 points, 5 rebounds, 1.9 assists and almost a block per game in his final year in the NCAA, which helped him make the jump to the NBA.

In the American professional league, he played a total of 54 games for the Memphis Grizzlies between 2020 and 2022.averaging 3.2 points and 1.6 rebounds in 11.9 minutes of play. During that time he also had minutes with the Memphis Hustle, a G League affiliate team.

Will return He has already had a complicated time with injuries that have forced him to spend two and a half seasons without being able to compete, although it seems now that he has returned to a good competitive level as he showed this summer with the Celtics.