Jason Clark played several seasons in Belgium, with Aalst, Charleroi and Antwerp. He was even named MVP in 2016-2017 with Antwerp. Last season he was already playing in Italy, with Varese. He averaged 11.3 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists. Clark just signed a 1-year contract with Torino for the 2020-2021 season.
Speedy Smith decided to finish the season in Israel when the EMBL cancelled the rest of the season. With some big performances during the end of the regular season, Smith helped his team qualify for the Playoffs (He tested negative for the Covid-19 but he missed the last 2 games of the regular season because…
Quincy Ford will sign with Gravelines-Dunkerque, Serge Crevecoeur‘s team for the 2020-2021 season. Ford played with Spirou Charleroi in 2018-2019, when Serge Crevecoeur was Brussels’s coach. In EMBL, he averaged 11 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 26 minutes. In 2019-2020, he joined the Bundesliga BBL and the Crailsheim Merlins. He averaged 10.5 points,…
Gyorgy Goloman signs with Spirou Charleroi. During his college career, the big Hungarian (2M11) played 4 seasons with the UCLA. After going undrafted, he played the 2018-2019 season with the Westchester Knicks, in the G League. Last season he mainly played in Japan, with Yokohama. He averaged 14.5 points and 7.4 rebounds.
Kenneth “Speedy” Smith joined Maccabi Haifa earlier to finish the season in Israel. The future Antwerp point guard is doing big things in the Israel Basketball Super League. He is averaging 16.6 points, 6.4 assists and 2.8 rebounds. In his last game againt Hapoel Tel Aviv, Smith posted 24 points (6 triples), 7 assists and…
22 year old Forward Tim Lambrecht is following his younger brother Sam and signs a 3 year deal with Spirou Charleroi as Head Coach Sam Rotsaert adds another young talent to his roster. With the addition of Tim Lambrecht Spirou now sports 8 youngsters (Milan Samardzic, Sam Lambrecht, Marlon Makwa, Thibaut Bronchart, Moussa Noterman, Noah…
Spirou Charleroi signs veteran point guard Adama Darboe. Darboe was playing with Bakken Bears in Denmark last season and played against Charleroi twice in the Fiba Europe Cup. He scored 17 and 18 points respectively in those 2 games. The 34 year old point guard also played for Denmark against Belgium in February where he…
After an emergency meeting the Pro Liga and all its clubs have unanimously decided to end the competition after only 17 games played (out of 26 games in the regular season) due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Current leader Filou Oostende is thus declared as the 2019-’20 Champion, while the tickets for the European competitions next…
Spirou Basket Charleroi went down in the final quarter against the Bakken Bears and take the 78-82 loss. Josh Sharma had himself an excellent game for Les Spirous and finished with 19 pts, 16 rebs & 3 blks. Alex Libert chipped in with 15 pts & 6 asts, while Anthony Beane recorded 13 pts.
In this #ThrowbackThursday we take a look back at the career of Castors Braine’s 2m02 tall Power Forward Tony Marion. Born in Zaïre in 1963 Marion came over to Belgium at a very young age as the family settled at Neder-Over-Heembeek. Inspired by his brother Christian, he quickly picked up playing basketball and joined Racing Club de…
