Aquila Basket Trento announces today that the team has signed Myles Stephens on a year-long contract with an option to extend for the season after.
Stephens is a Princeton University graduate, where he averaged 11.7 points in 27.4 minutes per game over four seasons.
After graduating in 2019, Stephens made his debut overseas with Oldenburg’s B team before moving to Salon Vilpas, where he was a part of championship winning team in 2021. After his contract ran out, he signed with Kangoeroes Mechelen, where he also stayed for only a year. In the summer of 2022, he returned to Germany and signed with Hakro Merlins from Crailsheim, where he averaged 8.0 points, 4.6. rebounds and 1.1 blocks in 45 games.
Trento added a very athletic guard (197 centimeters tall), who makes a very dominating physical presence in backcourt. On the other hand, his shot from distance is very inconsistent and it is yet to see how he will fit in Italian style of basketball.
Aris Thessaloniki signs Marcus Carr
Eight-seeded team from GBL continues to strengthen their young core of guards with signing Marcus Carr for the season ahead of us after.
Carr spent last two years at the University of Texas where he recorded 15.9 points, 4.1 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 1.6 steals on the road to Elite Eight phase of the NCAA tournament, while securing the conference title along the way. It was his last out of five seasons of college basketball – he started his freshman year at the University of Pittsburgh, before transferring to the University of Minnesota where he posted his career-high average of 19.4 points. Now he moves to Thessaloniki for his first season at the professional level, and the BKT EuroCup is the perfect setting for him to taste the magic of European basketball.
Hapoel reunites with Rabinowitz
Hapoel Shlomo Tel Aviv has brought one of their academy products, Yonatan Rabinowitz, on a one-year deal.
Point guard spent last season with Flyers Wels and Dukes Klostenburg in Austrian League, where he averaged 3.9 points, 2.2 assists, and 1.8 rebounds in 26 matches.
Rabinowitz now returns to the club where he rose through the ranks and was a captain in youth categories. He made his professional debut for Hapoel Shlomo in the 2015/16 season as a 17-year-old. His journeys took him to Israeli lower divisions, where he played for Ramat Hasharon, Hapoel Saba/Shalom, Maccabi Hod Hasharon, Elitzur Kiryat Ata, and Maccabi Ma’ale Adumim, before making his debut abroad in Austria last season.
Rabinowitz made some strong impact in his youth career, being a member of all Israeli national teams, which he crowned with a silver medal at the U20 European championships in 2017. However, he never found a way in transitioning to professional basketball and this homecoming could be the missing piece for his riddle.