Krka reinforced by Isaiah Cousins

“I am happy and grateful to be joining Krka. I cannot wait for us to start working. We will do our best to have a successful season,” Isaiah Cousins commented confidently. The player, that has been born on 13 March 1994 in Mount Vermont, has played college basketball in Oklahoma and in 2016 he has been picked at the NBA Draft as a second round pick by Sacramento Kings.

In the 2016/17 season he used to play in the G League for the Reno Bighorns and a season later in Salt Lake City Stars. In 2018 he arrived in Europe, where he first put on the jersey of Cholet. Afterwards he played in Israel (Hapoel Jerusalem, Hapoel Galil Gilboa, Maccabi Rishon LeZion and Maccabi Haifa), Greece (Aris, Peristeri) and Estonia (Kalev/Cramo).

He has been averaging 15.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game in the Israeli National Championship. In 2019 he won the Israeli National Cup with Hapoel Jerusalem.

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V Krko prihaja Isaiah Cousins

Novi član novomeške Krke je postal 29-letni ameriški košarkar Isaiah Cousins.

„Vesel in hvaležen sem, ker se bom pridružil Krki. Komaj čakam, da začnemo z delom. Potrudili se bomo, da bomo imeli uspešno sezono,“ je odločen Isaiah Cousins, ki se je rodil 13. marca 1994 v Mount Vermontu, kjer se je šolal do odhoda na univerzo Oklahoma. Leta 2016 je bil s strani Sacramenta izbran v 2. krogu drafta Lige NBA.

V sezoni 2016/2017 se je kalil v ameriški razvojni Ligi NBDL, sprva v ekipi Reno Bighorns, potem v ekipi Salt Lake City Stars (v sezoni 2017/2018). Leta 2018 je prišel v Evropo, kjer je naprej postal član francoskega kluba Cholet Basket. Za tem je igral še v Izraelu (Hapoel Jeruzalem, Hapoel Gilboa Galil, Maccabi Rishon LeZion, Hapoel Haifa), Grčiji (Aris, Peristeri) in Estoniji (Kalev/Cramo).

Lansko sezono je za Hapoel Haifa beležil po 15.2 točke, 3.5 skoka in 3.9 podaje na tekmo izraelskega državnega prvenstva. Leta 2019 je z jeruzalemskim Hapoelom osvojil izraelski pokal.