Tremont Waters at the controls of the Metropolitans 92

He was rookie of the year in the G-League in 2020. He was also this year in BSN, the Puerto Rican championship, for his first experience outside the United States. Will he still be, unofficially, in Betclic ELITE next season, for his first time on European soil? He it is Tremont Waters (1.78 m, 24 years old), the new leader of the Metropolitans 92. After two months of radio silence on the NJFL market, the Ile-de-France club has got its hands on the first foreign player in its 2022/23 contingent.

The proof that the native of New Haven (Connecticut) really wants to end three years of alternation between the NBA and the G-League, an uncomfortable situation where he was both dominant in the antechamber of the big league (15, 7 points at 42%, 2.8 rebounds and 6.4 assists) but not really a full member of the Association (3.5 points and 2 assists in 44 games including 41 with the Boston Celtics). If he had been able to play a rather substantial role last year with the Celtics (26 appearances, including 3 in the major five), where he was notably under the tutelage of Kemba Walker, he hardly saw the light this year, having to settle for two meetings with Toronto and one with Washington. The former Louisiana State student therefore took up his pilgrim’s stick for the first time, leaving to join the country of his origins, Puerto Rico, where he fully assumed his status as the first choice of the draft (18.2 points to 44%, 2.7 rebounds and 7.8 assists with the Carolina Gigantes).

A feared defender, to the point of receiving the trophy for best defender of the year in his NCAA conference in 2019, with a speed that allows him to compensate for his small size, excellent passer, Tremont Waters will therefore discover a new world at the start of the school year, the European basketball. With the hope of adapting to it as well as he always did, him the eternal rookie of the year. Except in the NBA of course…