Aris’ agreement with Darrall Willis took official form, with the “yellows” announcing the start of their collaboration with the American forward/center (2.06 m) until the end of the 2024/25 season.
Willis has a Cypriot passportwhile also competing in the current “windows” of the EuroBasket 2025 qualifiers, having excellent averages: 16.7 points and 9.3 rebounds in about 28 minutes of action.
The 28-year-old started his inter-club career from Cyprus, as he played in the 2018-19 season for Keravnos Strovolos, with whom he won the championship and the Cup in the country, while he was also named MVP! Since then, he has changed many teams and countries, as he played with the shirt of Nizhny, Monaco, Brescia, Enisei, Kuban, but also in China, Japan.
Aris’ announcement in detail:
“KAE ARIS Midea announces the acquisition of Darral Willis until the end of the 2024-25 season.
Darral Willis was born on January 21, 1996 and is 2.06m tall. competes in the positions of center and power forward.
In his high school years, ARIS freshman Midea competed at Madison Memorial. In 2014 he joined Pearl River College where he stayed for two years.
Willis had offers from several universities and chose Wichita State, where he attended from 2016 to 2018. In his first year he had 9.8 points and 5.1 rebounds and in his second year he had 10.5 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game.
In 2018 he made his first transatlantic trip, to Cyprus, on behalf of Keravnos Strovolos. With the Cypriot team, he won the Cup, being the MVP of the final, with 40 points and 17 rebounds against AEK Larnaca. In the season, in 32 games, he had 14.7 points and 9.6 rebounds.
In the 2019-20 season he played in the Russian Nizhny Novgorod in which in a total of 29 games he counted 14.1 points and 7.2 rebounds.
In the summer of 2020 he agreed with Monaco (8.8 points, 4.2 rebounds). Midway through the 2020-21 season, he moved to Italy for Brecia, where he averaged 10.4 points and 5.4 rebounds.
In September 2021 he returned to Russia and the VTB League on behalf of BC Enisey (13.8 points, 6.2 rebounds and 1.8 assists) and the following season found him in the jersey of Lokomotiv Kuban, where he had 11.8 points and 7.1 rebounds.
In January 2023, he traveled to South Korea to play for the Seoul Samsung Thunders, where he averaged 18 points and 6.8 rebounds, and in the summer of the same year, he signed with the Japanese Levanga Hokkaido, in which he had 15.7 points, 7.6 rebounds and 1.4 assists.
Last summer he signed with the also Japanese Kyoto Hannaryz and now belongs to the ARIS Midea team.
Darral Willis holds a Cypriot passport and is playing in the Eurobasket 2025 qualifiers. In the first two matches he had 19 points, 11 rebounds and 2 assists per game».
Source: Sport Fm
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