He is back ! Oklahoma City Blue’s G League team, affiliated with the Thunder, has therefore signed… Andre Roberson. The 2013 draftee has spent most of his career at Oklahoma and was once known as one hell of a bricklayer a big defensive threat before being seriously injured in 2018.
No you’re not dreaming, we are in 2023 and Andre Roberson is still playing basketball. Yesterday, OKC Blue, a G League team affiliated with the Thunder NBA franchise, announced that they have added the former Thunder fullback to their roster. The latter had already been training with the team for more than a month, and the news was in any case very well taken by Oklahoma fans, who welcome the return to the city of the player who contributed in his own way to the team’s success in the 2010s. Note also that Andre Roberson joins a squad made up of some of our safe Frenchies. With Adam Mokoka full-time, Ousmane Dieng now and then and Oliver Sarr set to return, the Blue smells of camembert and maybe that’s what drew Roberson to the team (not at all).
A familiar face in OKC today ????
Andre Roberson told me he plans on attending tonight’s game against the Celtics to support his former team
Also wearing Russell Westbrook’s hoodie ???? pic.twitter.com/eSetZz3gfR
— Clemente Almanza (@ CAlmanza1007) January 3, 2023
Drafted in 2013, Andre Roberson started in the 2014 season at OKC. Alongside Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant, Dede logically touches the ball very little: only 6 points on average for the 2016-2017 season, his best season in statistical terms. And it’s not his career high at 19 units which will make the other backs in the league jealous, nor his crappy shooting percentages (31% in throws in 2018!). But Roberson then imposed himself in another register: defense. For example, he will be named to the 2017 All-NBA Defensive Second Team, but, unfortunately for him, the following year Andre injured his patellar tendon in his left knee. Immediate end of the season, and the back does not replay the slightest match of the 2018-2019 financial year. In 2020, he is no longer the player he was, and finds himself cut by OKC after seven years of good and loyal defensive service. In 2021, he tries a move to Brooklyn, which does not convince, and is finally released at the end of the year.
Since then, no more news from the native of New Mexico, and vTo see Andre Roberson repress the floors is therefore a nice surprise, even to play in a G League team. In the past, the back had already passed through the Blue during his rookie season, to finally be integrated by the team a year later. Rob ‘knows the keys to stand out and interest a franchise in the NBA. The question that now arises: is it still capable of bringing in 2023?