Former NBA participant and NBL Championship Series MVP Derrick Walton Jr has joined South East Melbourne Phoenix as a part of the rebuilding facet’s free company spending spree.
In his solely earlier NBL marketing campaign within the 2022/23 season, the American level guard earned All-NBL First Team honours and guided the Sydney Kings to the second of their back-to-back titles.
His arrival at South East units up a mouth-watering one-two back-court punch after sharpshooting Olympic bronze medallist Nathan Sobey additionally signed with final season’s picket spooners.
Walton’s one-year deal represents “another puzzle piece” within the Phoenix’s rebuild, normal supervisor Simon Mitchell mentioned.
“His scoring power and his game sense make him one of the most damaging point guards we’ve seen in recent history,” he mentioned.
Walton began with the Miami Heat within the US-based NBA in 2017, and has since performed for the Los Angeles Clippers and Detroit Pistons, in addition to the Zhejiang Lions within the Chinese Basketball Association and Alba Berlin within the German Federal Basketball League.
In the NBL, he’s considered one of solely 5 gamers to have scored 45 factors in a single sport through the 40-minute period, doing so in a 113-112 double-overtime loss to the Phoenix in late 2022.
The Brisbane Bullets have additionally acquired an ace of their very own in Tasmanian-born World Cup participant Kye Savage, who has signed on for a three-year deal.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
