By Johnny Askounis/ info@eurohoops.net
Canadian point guard Tyler Ennis will continue as a Tofas player for the 2022-23 season, the team announced Saturday.
Ennis, 27, joined the team located in Bursa last January. Leaving severe injuries in the past, he averaged 12.6 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and 0.5 steals per game over eight appearances resurfacing in the Basketball Champions League after three games played with Turk Telekom a couple of years back. At the domestic level, he produced 12.7 points, 4.4 assists, 3.4 rebounds, and 1.1 steals per contest over 13 appearances in Turkey’s BSL.
Coming out of Syracuse in 2014, Ennis was selected by the Phoenix Suns with the 18th overall pick of the NBA draft. He played in 187 NBA games between the Suns, Milwaukee Bucks, Houston Rockets, and Los Angeles Lakers, prior to landing at Fenerbahce Beko for the 2018-19 season but an ankle injury cut short the introduction to the European stage. Before 2020-21, he joined Turk Telekom and tore his Achilles tendon early in the season. Six months ago, he shifted to Tofas.
In a similar fashion, going to Baxi Manresa in December, small forward Juan Pablo Vaulet penned a two-year contract extension. Coming in from a brief stint at Greek side AEK, he tallied 6.4 points, 4.5 rebounds, 1.0 assists, and 0.5 steals per BCL game, and 6.0 points, 2.8 rebounds, 0.7 steals, and 0.7 assists per game in Spain’s Liga Endesa. The Argentina international was picked up with the 39th overall selection of the 2015 draft by the Charlotte Hornets but his NBA rights are currently controlled by the Indiana Pacers.
More Champions League news coming in from Igokea m:tel. The Bosnia-Herzegovina outfit announced the addition of Haris Delalic. The 28-year-old forward is set to debut in the BCL.