{"id":3187,"date":"2023-01-26T18:41:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T18:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/caledonia-gladiators-acquire-aljami-durham-ahead-of-flyers-showdown-british-basketball-league\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T18:41:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T18:41:35","slug":"caledonia-gladiators-acquire-aljami-durham-ahead-of-flyers-showdown-british-basketball-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/caledonia-gladiators-acquire-aljami-durham-ahead-of-flyers-showdown-british-basketball-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Caledonia Gladiators acquire Aljami Durham ahead of Flyers showdown &#8211; British Basketball League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caledoniagladiators.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caledonia Gladiators<\/a> have confirmed the signing of Aljami \u2018Al\u2019 Durham until the end of the season. He last played in Greece\u2019s top tier for G.S. Lavrio B.C during the first half of the 2022-23 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Currently in his rookie year, the American guard comes to the BBL after averaging 5.3 PPG, 1.9 RPG and 1 APG in Greece. This campaign, he has played and scored against Greek giants like Olympiakos, Panathinaikos and AEK. A season-high of 13 points came against EuroLeague side Olympiakos, who were last season\u2019s Greek league champions.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20194\u2033 Guard spent four years at Indiana<br \/>\nUniversity, transferring to Providence last campaign for his final year of<br \/>\ncollege eligibility. There, he averaged 13.6 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.4<br \/>\nassists, helping his team in becoming champions of the Big East conference,<br \/>\nthen going onto make the Sweet Sixteen round of March Madness.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Upon his arrival in Scotland, the<br \/>\n24-year-old said: \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to getting out there, playing, and<br \/>\nbeing able to see Scotland and its culture. Coach Gareth is an amazing guy, he<br \/>\nmade sure I was okay and comfortable throughout our first meetings. He\u2019s a very<br \/>\nknowledgeable coach and has been helpful with my transition here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BBL Head Coach Gareth Murray said:<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m happy to have got the deal over the line, I\u2019m hoping he can come in<br \/>\nas a solid team player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia native will come into Gareth Murray\u2019s squad as #42 and he is cleared to play alongside other newcomer,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caledoniagladiators.com\/bbl-gladiators-sign-fahro-alihodzic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fahro Alihodzic<\/a>\u00a0at Friday\u2019s game against Bristol Flyers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>fbq('init', '1011873635634879'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbl.org.uk\/caledonia-gladiators-acquire-aljami-durham-ahead-of-flyers-showdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caledonia Gladiators have confirmed the signing of Aljami \u2018Al\u2019 Durham until the end of the season. He last played in Greece\u2019s top tier for G.S. Lavrio B.C during the first half of the 2022-23 campaign. Currently in his rookie year, the American guard comes to the BBL after averaging 5.3 PPG, 1.9 RPG and 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}