By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Cedevita Olimpija signed forward Hayden Dalton, the Slovenian club announced. Dalton spent the previous season with ERA Nymburk, averaging 11.7 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2.3 assists in the Basketball Champions League.
Per Cedevita:
The reigning Slovenian national champions, Cedevita Olimpija, have started composing their team for the 2021/22 competition season. The Ljubljana club jersey will be worn by Hayden Dalton, an American forward who has been part of the Czech side ERA Nymburk in the past two seasons. Dalton thus became the first reinforcement of Cedevita Olimpija this summer.
In the 2020/21 season, Dalton appeared in 13 Basketball Champions League games, and averaged 26.5 minutes on the floor. He has been scoring 11.7 points and grabbing 7.2 rebounds per game, adding 2.3 assists along the way. In 9 games, he exceeded the limit of ten points scored, and twice he managed to collect a double-digit number of rebounds.
He played in 40 games in the Czech national championship, the most among all Nymburk basketball players. He spent 21.3 minutes per game on the floor, scoring 10.0 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. Dalton helped Nymburk to two consecutive Czech national championship titles.
Dalton honed his basketball skills at the University of Wyoming, for which he played three seasons in the NCAA League. The player first introduced himself to the European basketball fans in the 2018/19 season, when he wore the Bakken Bears jersey.
As he agreed on cooperation with Cedevita Olimpija, Hayden Dalton told: “I’m very thankful and excited to be joining Cedevita Olimpija, a team from Slovenia. It’s a step up for me in my career, so I’m very excited to be joining the team for the next season, with which we will try to win as many championships as we can. I couldn’t be more excited on joining a high level and respected European club.”
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