Athens They have eight games ahead to complete the regular phase of the National Basketball League, looking to avoid the relegation series as the maximum objective, or face the key for permanence to stay in the elite. The General Bustos neighborhood club added, and is enabled to debut this Thursday in the visit in the classic to the Ferroto the youthful power forward Lee Aaliyah.
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The youth, 18 years old and 2.05 meters, joins Athens. The power forward comes from playing for Gimnasia de la Plata in the Argentine League. He was also training with the National Team.
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18 years old and 2.05 meters tall, the intern of African origin comes from playing for Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata in the Argentine League, and also participated in some training sessions with the national team, during the short cycle of Néstor García .
The General Bustos neighborhood club has been contesting the League matches with two fewer major chips (of the eight allowed by the regulations) due to the departures of Guillermo Díaz and Dominique Morrison. The arrival of Aaliya will allow coach Álvaro Castiñeira to have one more variant in the team’s rotation.
Lee Aaliya was summoned during 2021 to be part of the U19 national preselection led by Daniel Farabello, after being part of the team that represented the Province of Buenos Aires in the Argentina Under 17 Championship.
Lee was born in La Plata and started playing basketball at the age of three. “My brother trained and I walked with the ball everywhere, ha,” the new Athens player told TyC Sports long time. “I liked basketball and I also did wrestling. When I was a boy I wanted to be a fighter, like my dad, ”he added.
His father is the remembered fighter Don’t take a bath (Jeff Aaliya), star of the TV show 100% Lucha during the 2000s.
“In national basketball I really liked how he played Walter Herrmann (member of the Golden Generation), I spend watching videos. I like the NBA a lot Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks) because of his firmness to play, he is a bull,” he said.