The UCAM Murcia Club Baloncesto, which this coming season will play the Endesa League and also the FIBA Champions League, practically closes its squad with the incorporation of the Latvian international player Rodions Kurucswhose signing was made official by the university entity this Saturday.
This is the eighth signing made by UCAM CB in this market and joins those with two bases such as the American Troy Caupain and the Swede Ludde Hakanson, the Canadian shooting guard Dylan Ennis, who has a Serbian passport; the Cuban forward Howard Sant-Roos, the American power forward Dustin Sleva and two centers like the equally Swedish Simon Birgander and the Senegalese Moussa Diagne in a team in which two other foreigners renewed contracts such as the Georgian nationalized American Thad McFadden and the Czech David Jelínek, in addition to Radovic and the Congolese center Jordan Sakho.
Rodions Kurucs, a 25-year-old forward and power forward (he was born on February 5, 1998 in the Latvian city of Cesis), 2.03 meters tall and who occupies a position as a training player (he went through the Barça youth system for three seasons), He comes from the French SIG Strasbourg and, despite his youth, he has accumulated experience both in Europe and in the United States, specifically in the NBA and in which he competed as part of the Brooklyn Nets, a franchise to which he left in 2018 when he was barely 20 years old and played 118 games; of the Houston Rockets and the Milwaukee Bucks.
In Spain, as well as in the Barça academy, he played for Real Betis Baloncesto in the Endesa League, with 11 games played with the bético team. He was also in the Serbian Partizan Belgrade and in Strasbourg, with whom he played 21 games in the French League and averaged 10.6 points, 4.8 rebounds for a PIR of 11.4. In addition, last season he also participated in the FIBA Champions League, a tournament that he will play again with UCAM CB, and in which he averaged 10.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and a PIR of 11.5 in 10 games.