THE Devonte Upson will be his foreign center PAOK the next season. The Thessalonikis have formalized their agreement with the 31-year-old American center (2.06m), who has previously played for Strasbourg, Merkezefendi, Hapoel Haifa, while last year he shared the season with Buyukcekmetse and Trepitsa.
With the Turkish team, he averaged 8.6 points and 4.7 rebounds in 13 games. With the Kosovo team, he won the championship, averaging 8.2 points and 5.3 rebounds in 15 games.
The announcement:
KAE PAOK mateco announces the agreement with the American basketball player Devonte Upson, who will play for our team in the 2024-25 season. We welcome Devonte to the PAOK family.
Zwencyl Devonte Upson was born on March 23, 1993 in Augusta, Georgia, he is 2.06m tall and plays as a center. He graduated from Southern Louisiana College in 2015 with 10.7 points, 7.4 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game and has been playing professional basketball in Europe since the 2015-16 season.
Started in Switzerland (14.6 points, 9.6 rebounds and 1 steal per game with Starwings Basket Regio Basel), continued in Finland (8.3 points and 4.9 rebounds with Helsinki Seagulls) and 2017- 18 played in Estonia with Rapla BS (10.9 points, 7.2 rebounds per game).
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The following year (2018-19) he played in Poland with Start Lubin (9.7 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game), while in the summer of the same year he played in Argentina with Comunicaciones Mercedes (5, 8 points and 5.3 rebounds).
He returned to Poland for the 2019-20 season and with Asseco Gdynia averaged 7.6 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1 steal per game. In the middle of the season he moved to France, but managed to play just one game with Strasbourg before the league was suspended due to the pandemic!
In the 2020-21 season, he played in Italy and with Pallacanestro Trieste he had 7.3 points and 4.1 rebounds and the following year (2021-22) he played in Turkey with Merkezefendi (8.8 points and 6.7 rebounds) .
In the 2022-23 season he played in Israel with Hapoel Haifa (9.4 points and 5.7 rebounds), while at the beginning of last season (2023-24) he played again in Turkey with Buyukcekmece (8.7 points, 4 ,7 rebounds).
In February 2024, he moved to Kosovo and with Trepca, he won the championship and the Cup, with 8.2 points and 5.3 rebounds per game.
Source: Sport Fm
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