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GABF confirms James participation NHFS sponsors training stint in Guyana
Delroy James is confirmed to arrive in Guyana on March 31.
Nigel Hinds Financial Services has sponsored James’ training stint in Guyana.
Kaieteur News – Guyana’s most successful professional basketball player, Delroy James, is confirmed to arrive in Guyana on the last day of this month; Wednesday, March 31.
In 2019, the 6’10” Power Forward (PF) won both the FIBA Basketball Champions League (BCL) and FIBA Inter-Continental Cup with the Greek Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupóleos (Athletic Union of Constantinople) – AEK Basketball Club (BC) based in Athens, Greece.
The Berbician born and Rhode Island University (Rhode Island, USA) educated Guyanese has since played for the Tulsa 66ers – NBA G-League, Jersey G-Force – IBA , Atlanta Hawks and Utah Jazz – NBA Summer League before joining the European and Asian basketball circuit where he played for Basket Ferentino (Italy – LegaDue), and was named MVP in the LegaDue All-Star Game.
James has also played with Yenisey Krasnoyarsk BC (Russia – VTB United League), Pallacanestro Reggiana BC (Italy – Lega Basket Serie A), Best Balıkesir BC and Gaziantep BC (Turkey – Turkish Basketball Super League), Seoul Samsung Thunders (South Korea – Korean Basketball League), UCAM Murcia BC (Spain – Liga ACB), Meralco Bolts (Philippines, Philippine Basketball Association), AEK BC and Promitheas Patras BC (Greece – Greek Basket League), and most recently for Real Esteli (Nicaragua – BCL Americas).
In a correspondence to the media from the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), they extended thanks to Nigel Hinds Financial Services (NHFS) for the timely sponsorship that will allow Delroy James to travel and train in Guyana with the local players to build team chemistry.
Delroy’s older brother Gordon James, a professional basketball player with stints in Japan and Argentina who has represented Guyana in the 2015 CBC Senior Championships in Tortola, BVI and FIBA AmeriCup 2022 Pre-Qualifier in 2019 (Colombia), will join the team in Guyana in early April.
Guyana senior men’s basketball team is expected to arrive in San Salvador, El Salvador on April 12th and will depart on April 19th.
The competition format will be round-robin and the top three (3) teams will advance to the second round of the FIBA Basketball World Cup – Americas Pre-Qualifier in July 2021.
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