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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Basketball: Hapoel T.A ink American forward Josh Owens

Basketball:
Josh Owens (nba-draft)
Hapoel Tel Aviv have made yet another addition to their roster ahead of the new season with the signing of American power forward Josh Owens. The 206cm 24-year-old had a 5 year college career between the years 2007-2012 in which he played for Stanford Cardinal. In his final 2 seasons at Stanford, Owens averaged 11.6 points and 6.1 rebounds per game. After not being picked in the 2012 NBA draft, he decided to go and play in the NBA D-League with the Idaho Stampede where he remained for just 1 season and for the last few months he has been training with Sienna, who are currently the holding champions of Italy, but Sienna only offered him a contract for the Euroleague and since Owens wanted to get a lot of minutes on the court in his first season in Europe, he decided to join Hapoel instead. Owens is the 2nd player to sign for Hapoel in the last couple of days with New-York-born Guard Vincent Council joining the club. Council who at the age of 23 is 188cm tall, has been playing in the College Basketball system for the past 3 seasons with the Providence Friars where he averaged 13.4 points per game. In the summer Council played in the NBA Summer Leagues for the Miami Heat, but he failed to receive a contract. 





  

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