OFFICIAL: Kameron Taylor joins Unicaja 23-24

Taylor lands at the Los Guindos club just over 24 hours after the sudden departure of Darío Brizuela for Barça. The Basque player paid his termination clause to be able to sign for the Blaugrana team and Taylor has done exactly the same in Girona to be able to break his relationship with the Girona team and thus be able to join the typesetter discipline.

Kameron Taylor is one of the most outstanding outside players of the last Endesa League. He shines with his ability to play shooting guard and forward positions, always with high intensity on both sides of the court. Dangerous in the open field, he is very incisive in front of the basket and reliable in the outside shot, as well as being a safe defensive player. An all-terrain player who supports Málaga’s outside line and who seems the perfect complement to the other “twos” on the team: Carter, Kalinoski and Mario Saint-Supéry.

Immediate impact on the ACB

It was last season when Kameron Taylor landed in the Endesa League with Bàsquet Girona. In Girona landsThe man from Maryland averaged 14.5 points, 4.8 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.6 steals -2nd in the Endesa League in this section- for a PIR of 15.6 -8th in the league-. All this with very high success rates, 56% in shots of 2; 37.4% in triples; and 79.6% in free throws.

In addition, it should be noted that he was chosen andl Best Player of the Week 29, after scoring 27 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists for a PIR of 40 in the Catalan victory against Coviran Granada (88-73). But that performance against the Granada team was not a one-off thing. Kameron Taylor was over 20 points in 10 games. Real Madrid, Joventut, FC Barcelona or Valencia were some of the teams that suffered these great performances from today’s new Unicaja player.

Experience in BCL and Euroleague

The new Unicaja player, despite being only 28 years old, has already been in European basketball for 7 seasons. Germany or Hungary were the first countries where he grew up as a player. This progression has been continuous, something that led him in the 2021-22 season to go through the ranks of a great European basketball player, Maccabi Tel Aviv, with whom he played 19 Euroleague games.

Besides, Kameron Taylor knows perfectly the Basketball Champions League, a competition that he has played with the German Brose Bamberg team in the 2019-20 academic year and with French SIG Strarsbourg two seasons ago, team with which he reached the quarterfinals of this European competition. His numbers in the BCL 21-22 were 12 points, 4.7 rebounds, 3.3 assists and a PIR of 14.9.

Good reinforcement for the perimeter

Kameron Taylor joins the Malaga perimeter for the 2023-24 season. It will be the only new face of the team compared to last year. And it is that with him there are already 12 confirmed players with a valid contract, only at the expense of making official the renewal of Will Thomas for one more year, which is very well underway, and the signing of Tyson Carter for two seasons, which Yes it is closed, but the Los Guindos club has not yet officially announced it.

2023-07-14 17:33:39
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