By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
Former NBA and Euroleague champion Josh Powell will continue his career in Australia and Sydney Kings for one season.
33-year old Powell won two NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons. Going undrafted by the NBA in 2003 after leaving NC State at the conclusion of his sophomore year, he began his professional journey in Russia and Italy, averaging 15.9 points and 11.9 rebounds per game for JuveCaserta Basket in the 2004/05 European season.
Those numbers brought him attention from the NBA, and the Dallas Mavericks signed him at the beginning of the 2005/2006 NBA season.
While he would play just one year with Dallas, he remained in the world’s best competition for some eight seasons, playing a total of 316 regular season games and 46 playoff games for seven teams, including the Indiana Pacers, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers and the Atlanta Hawks.
At the end of his first NBA stint, Josh played in Euroleague for Olympiacos and helped his team to win the title in the 2012/13 campaign.
Incredibly, he returned to the NBA for the 2014/2015 season, serving as an assistant coach for the Houston Rockets.
He has also played in Puerto Rico, Argentina and the Philippines, with his most recent club Luoyang Zhonghe in the Chinese Basketball Association, where he played 24 games in the 2015/2016 season, averaging 25.9 points and 17.8 rebounds per game while shooting 59% from the field.