After Justin Alston, o PAOK proceeded to add another foreign player. He announced his acquisition Kendall Smithwho plays the two guard positions and will replace Skyler Flaten, who did not perform as expected.
The 28-year-old American (1.91m) played last season in Colossos Rhodes, averaging 10.9 points (40% on threes), 2.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game. This year he started the season in the second division of Turkey.
Smith is expected tonight in Thessaloniki, from Thursday he will train with the team and will make his debut on Saturday against Apollon in Patras.
The announcement:
KAE PAOK mateco announces the agreement with the American basketball player Kendall Smith, who is expected tonight in Thessaloniki to integrate directly with our team and until the end of the 2023-24 season.
Kendall Smith was born on September 18, 1995, is 1.91m tall and plays as a guard. He graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2018 and averaged 13.1 points (41% from 3-point range), 2.8 rebounds and 3 assists per game in his senior year in college.
He came to Europe for the first time in the 2018-19 season and played in Belgium with Okapi Aalstar (11.1 points, 3.1 rebounds, 3.8 assists average in 28 games), but also in the Czech Republic with Nymburk ( 12.4 points, 4.1 rebounds, 4.7 assists in 7 league games). With Nymburk he also made his first appearance in the Basketball Champions League that season, competing in 3 games.
In the 2019-20 season which was interrupted due to the pandemic, he managed to play in 10 games with two different teams in the GLeague, while the following year (2020-21) in the same league and with the Santa Cruz Warriors he had 10.3 points, 5 ,1 rebound and 7.1 assists in 25 games.
During last season he played again in the Gleague, this time with the Maine Celtics (4.2 points, 2 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 13 games), while for the first time he also played in Greece with the Kolossos Rhodes team in 16 league games, he had 10.9 points (40% on 3-pointers), 2.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists.
At the beginning of this season, Kendall Smith played in Turkey with Cayirova (15 points, 3.4 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game, in the 8 games he played), before agreeing with PAOK mateco).
Source: Sport Fm
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