He UCAM Murcia will have the American base Chris Chiozza to face the final stretch of the Endesa League and also a Champions League in which the grana team is immersed in the quarterfinals.
The entity announced this signing valid until the end of this campaign after losing last night 83-67 at Unicaja de Málaga in the first match of the European series.
Christopher Xavier Chiozza, 27 years old – he was born on November 21, 1995 in Memphis – and 1.80 meters tall, has more than 90 games of experience in the NBA, a competition he won in 2022.
He is a player who stands out for his explosiveness, which he takes advantage of both to attack and defend; for his good handling of the ball and for the success in the three-point shot.
Those aspects, coupled with his leadership and character, have sparked interest from some of the best European teams in recent summers, but it will be his first time competing outside of the United States.
After having been a member of NBA franchises such as the Houston Rockets, Washington Wizards and Golden State Warriors, this team with which he won the title last year, and the Brooklyn Nets, he will face this international experience.
He trained at the University of Florida, with whose team he played for four seasons and averaged 7.4 points, 3.2 rebounds and 4.1 assists and in the current season he was involved in 48 games with the Long Islands Nets, a team from the G- League, the development league of the NBA, with 12.5 points, 5.2 rebounds, 8.8 assists and a PIR of 17.5 as average.
UCAM processed all the player’s documentation before the first quarterfinal match of the FIBA Champions League to be able to register him in the competition and obtained approval, so he can participate in the second, to be played on Wednesday of the next week at the Palacio de los Deportes in Murcia, as well as in the Endesa League.
Chiozza’s debut as grana, therefore, will be this Saturday at six in the afternoon on the Monbus Obradoiro stadium in Santiago de Compostela.
With the Tennessee coach, the team’s coach, Sito Alonso, has four point guards on his squad, as Chiozza joins his compatriot Travis Trice, the Spaniard Tomás Bellas and the Georgian Rati Andronikashvili.