The Tribune

By RENALDO DORSETT

Tribune Sports Reporter

rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

NATIONAL team guard LJ Rose inked a deal with a new European club.

Rose signed with Galitos - Barreriro of Portugal’s Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol (LPB).

He becomes the third Bahamian national team player in the league following Travis Munnings and Shaquille Cleare who are members of UD Oliveirense.

Rose most recently played with BK Olomoucko Prostejov of The Czech Republic’s NBL.

In four games last season he averaged 9.5 points, three rebounds and five assists per game. He also played with Finnish club, Pyrinto Tampere of the Korisliiga - the top level of basketball in Finland. In 10 games he averaged 7.3 points, 5.1 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game.

The veteran point guard also played professionally in Australia for the Gold Coast Rollers of Queenland’s Basketball League, for BC Valga-Valka in the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League and in National Basketball Association’s G-League with the Salt Lake City Stars, the G-League affiliate of the Utah Jazz.

At the national team level he participated in the first series of the FIBA World Cup 2019 Qualifiers for the Americas region.

Despite the Bahamas’ 0-2 finish, Rose was a bright spot for the team with the numbers he posted, averaging 8.5 points, nine assists and six rebounds per game.

He was also a member of the 2014 Caribbean Basketball Confederation Championships gold medal team.

Mark St. Fort is on the move once again in a division of the Japanese B-League and signed with his fifth team this season.

St. Fort signed with the Fukushima Firebonds of the Japanese B2 League.

St. Fort has played with three different B1 franchises this season.He began the year with SeaHorses Mikawa but was released after just two games with the club. He went on to sign with the Niigata Albirex where he had his most productive stretch of the season where he was the team’s leading scorer in four games. Through 12 games he averaged 10.6 points and 3.8 rebounds per game on 70 percent shooting from the field and 43 percent shooting from three point range. He then went on to join the Aishin Sea Horses for for a brief two game stint and was released after two games. Most recently, he spent seven games with the Hiroshima Dragonflies for a seven game stretch.

He spent last season in Japan’s third division, the B3-League with the Saitama Broncos where he averaged 17.9 points and 9.8 rebounds per game.