Former NBA forward Tyler Cook is signing with a Japanese team, Donatas Urbonas of BasketNews.com reports. He’ll be joining the Ibaraki Robots.
Cook averaged 15.0 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 1.5 assists on 63.6% shooting in the Turkish league with Merkezefendi this past season. He played 65 games in the NBA, most recently with Chicago in 2021/22.
Here’s more from the international basketball world:
- Another former NBA forward, Deividas Sirvydis, is re-signing with Lithuania’s Zalgiris Kaunas on a contract that runs through the 2027/28 season, according to a team press release. In his debut EuroLeague season, Sirvydis averaged 8.4 points and 2.6 rebounds per game, shooting 51.5% from two-point range and 38.8% from three-point range. Sirvydis, a 2019 second-round pick, made 23 appearances with Detroit.
- If they had to do it all over again, Paolo Banchero would still be the No. 1 pick of the 2022 draft. HoopsHype’s Frank Urbina conducted a 2022 re-draft and there was one big move up the draft ladder — Urbina suggests Jalen Williams would be the No. 2 pick instead of the No. 12 selection, while Dyson Daniels would also move into the top five.
- Speaking to Eurohoops, former NBA All-Star Pau Gasol wouldn’t go as far as saying the current group of European stars are better than his era’s top imports. Rather, he looks at it as each generation grows the legacy of European players before them.
But wait a min, Shams & Woj got Jabari Smith Jr going #1 & they do this for a living.
I am absolutely not taking Jalen Williams before Chet
It’s close, but I’d also lean Chet. Williams has an argument esp given his better injury history . Either way OKC is loaded lol
OKC was always taking Chet and that wouldn’t change. Redrafts are fictional so they are pointless. Plus everyone knows is Chet 1, Dubb 2 and Ous 4.
Ok, I just checked that re-draft article and that might be worst re-draft ever wow
“Redrafting previous years drafts” – my lord how asinine. Who cares? Who is this for? Someone who doesn’t know how to search basketball-reference to sort by VORP or WS to see all the best players are per draft??
Sorting by those two metrics has George Hill getting drafted higher than Derrick Rose
Yup, Drose only had 2 good years and 1 great year. Rose should have never won MVP over Lebron either.