Unicaja add Michael Eric to bolster their frontline / News - Basketnews.com

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Unicaja Malaga officially announced that Micheal Eric has signed a 1+1 deal.

Michael Eric

Position:CAge:33Height:211 cmWeight:120 kgBirth place:Lagos, NigeriaProfileNewsStatistics

Last season Nigerian big man (33, 2.10) was a midseason addition by the CSKA Moscow after Nikola Milutinov's injury. In the EuroLeague he averaged 5.4 points and 3.3 rebounds in 14 games.

With CSKA Eric reached the Final Four of the EuroLeague and won the VTB League title.

The center will come back to the Basketball Champions League after the first part of the 2020-21 season with Turk Telekom. In BCL Eric contributed 12.2 points, 6.7 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks a match.

Unicaja Malaga will be his third team in Spain. In 2016-17 the big man represented Bilbao Basket and in 2019-20 he was a part of Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Unicaja will play in BCL’s Group C and will face Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), JDA Dijon (France), and Lavrio Megabolt (Greece). The Spanish team will start their campaign with an away game against the Russian squad on October 6.

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