By RENALDO DORSETT
Sports Reporter
rdorsett@tribunemedia.net
The professional basketball journey continues for Bennet Davis who joins his latest franchise, his second appearance in Hungary in the Division A League.
Davis completed a deal earlier this week with Marso NYKK after recently being released by Palencia of Spain’s LEB Gold League. He began the 2011-12 season with KTP Basket in Finland (Korisliiga) where he averaged 12.1 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game over 13 games.
He then moved to Japan and joined Niigata Albirex of the Japan-BJ League and posted 7.3 points and 6.1 rebounds per game in 31 games.
The Hungary A-League is the highest level league of club men’s basketball in the country, and comprises 14 teams.
The top eight teams qualify for the playoffs, played in “best of five” format, while the bottom teams who finish 13-14, play each other in a “best of three,” the loser facing relegation to a lower league.
Davis has been a member of the Bahamas national team and played in the NBA D-League.
As a member of the Bahamas’ 2012 Centrobasket team, he averaged 6.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game to help the Bahamas finish fifth in Puerto Rico last June.
The 28-year-old 6’ 9” forward, managed by KMG Sports Management, has spent much of his career in Europe in the NBA’s Development League.
After graduating on the University of Northeastern in 2007 where he averaged 15 points, 6.6 rebounds 2.2 assists and 2.1 blocks per game, he began his professional career with Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan in Israel where he averaged 7.3 points and 4.8 rebounds per game.
He was drafted by the Utah Flash of the D-League in 2008 and in his initial season with the Flash, Davis started just 14 games and averaged 6.5 points and 3.5 rebounds.
In his sophomore campaign, he doubled productivity in both areas with averages of 13.7 points and 7.7 rebounds while shooting 41 per cent from the field.
Davis briefly flirted with an NBA contract when he was called up by the New Jersey Nets prior to the 2009-10 season.
His most notable D-League achievement came when he was named to the NBA D-League’s Select team which competed against some of the league’s best rookies and young talent at the 2010 Las Vegas Summer League.
Davis made the move to Finland after successfully recovering from a leg injury he sustained in the D- League in 2010. He was waived by the Utah Flash after he suffered a stress fracture in his right leg and was sidelined for approximately two months.
After spending several months playing in Hungary, he returned to the D-League’s Utah Flash for his third season with the subsidiary of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks and Utah Jazz.
In October of 2010, he signed with MJUS-Fortress Kormend, his first stint in Hungary’s A-League and made an immediate impact with the club, however, after almost three months, he chose to return to his former D-League club.
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