Second reinforcement made official by Napoli Basket. Ben Bentil arrives to enrich coach Igor Milicic‘s long department. Bentil, from Ghana, is a 206cm tall pivot forward born in 1995. He started in Ghana but his basketball training is American. He comes from Hapoel Tel Aviv where he also played two Eurocup matches this season before arriving in the Gulf of Naples.
“I can’t wait to become part of the Napoli Basket family and help the team fight and achieve victories – Bentil’s first words as a Napoli Basket member – I also want to learn the culture of the people of Naples while enjoying my time in the city with my family. I’m really excited about this opportunity and can’t wait to get to Naples.”
At 15 he attended the Haverford School in Pennsylvania and then St. Andrew’s School in Delaware. In 2014 he transferred to Providence College. Selected by the Boston Celtics in the 2016 NBA draft, he had experiences with the Indiana Pacers and the Dallas Mavericks, then in the G-League with Fort Wayne and subsequently at Xinjiang in China, Chalon in France, Bilbao in Spain, and Peristeri Athens in Greece. In 2019, he moved to Panathinaikos where in two years he played 54 EuroLeague games with 258 points scored and 128 rebounds captured.
With “Pana” in 2021 he won both the Greek Cup and the Hellenic Championship. He subsequently played for Bahçeşehir Koleji, in Turkey, and arrived in Italy in the 2021-22 season with Olimpia Milano where he won the Championship and Italian Cup while also playing in the Euroleague. The following year he moved to Belgrade where he won the Serbian Cup with Red Star. In the 2023-24 season he flies to Japan playing with the Gunma Crane Thunders. Until the landing under Vesuvius.
