2023-06-14 12:00:00
SIG Strasbourg is launching its off-season recruitment campaign by formalizing the signing of American player Phil Booth (1m92 – 27 years old) as fullback. Coming from Turkey, he signed up for a year with SIG Strasbourg.
Undrafted in the summer of 2019 despite interest from NBA franchises like Cleveland and Washington, it was in the G-League, with Capital City, that he began his career. In a 2019/20 season limited to 36 games due to Covid-19, he signed an interesting statistical line with 11.1 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists and some resounding outings like January 10 2020 when he scored 32 points, embellished with an incredible 8/12 at 3pts, once morest the Maines Celtics. The following season he wore the colors of the Oklahoma City Blues, but it was by taking the decision to cross the Atlantic in the summer of 2021 that he really made himself known in Europe.
Indeed, during the 2021/22 season he signed up with Belgian champion Ostend. Along with former SIGman Levi Randolph, he’s formed an offensive leading duo all season. With 13.7 points (37% at 3pts), 3.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists in the league, he greatly contributed to the title of champion gleaned. At the same time, he discovered European games by participating in the Basketball Champions League, a competition in which he also shone with a line of equivalent statistics, but above all an offensive card once morest SIG Strasbourg which all of Rhenus Sport remembers. Again. Faced with John Roberson and his teammates, he scored a whopping 30pts one evening in December 2021 with an 80% shooting success. He thus greatly participated in the Belgian club’s first qualification for the BCL Top 16 by showing basketball Europe his winning mentality, by being efficient and relying on a shot on, both at the end of the chain only when you have to create it.
In great demand, he signed at the dawn of the 2022/23 season with Buducnost, with whom he took part in 13 matches in the Adriatic league and 9 in the Eurocup. The club choosing to strengthen its workforce with two new American players in December 2022, it then reached an agreement with its leaders to engage with the Izmir club in Turkey, Petkim Spor. He finished the past season there by averaging 14.4 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 13 league games.
Free of any contract, the 27-year-old American full-back arrives in Strasbourg with the desire and the will to move on to a new level in his career within the coach Massimo Cancellieri : “Phil’s signature is very important in building our backline because of his versatility. His state of mind is the one we want for our team and above all the same as the French backbone of the group. I think he is complementary to the other players and that he will fit perfectly into the scheme we want to put in place. ».
Nicholas Alberoni complete: ” We can be happy to start our recruiting campaign by signing a player like Phil Booth. We know him well. He impressed us when he was in Ostend and we played once morest him. He is one of the best fullbacks available on the market today. He is a man with a very good state of mind and he will certainly fit perfectly into the systems of play that we are going to put in place. He will bring us size, toughness and a lot of danger offensively. I can’t wait to see him play for our club. We will do everything we can to sign other talented players for the next season. ».
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