Vancouver Bandits lose participant to NBA
Celebrity level guard Taze Moore has signed with the Portland Path Blazers.
Moore is the reigning Canadian Elite Basketball League MVP after shining for the Bandits in the course of the summer season season. The calendar began on the finish of Mightnicely after the tip of the NBA common season.
The deal is a two-way contract and monetary particulars weren’t disclosed by the group.
📝: Path Blazers signal Taze Moore to a two-way contract. pic.twitter.com/Y4dkw63oFp
— Portland Path Blazers (@trailblazers) September 13, 2024
Moore signed a 10-day contract with the Path Blazers in January of this 12 months, which was later prolonged for the rest of the season. He appeared in 4 NBA video games, averaging 4.5 factors per recreation, and in addition performed in 22 NBA G League video games.
His greatest NBA efficiency was a season-ending recreation in opposition to the Sacramento Kings, by which Moore performed half-hour. He shot 5 of 14, together with 1 of 5 from three-point vary, for 12 factors and added eight rebounds and 4 assists.
Moore then performed for the Bandits that summer season and helped them attain the CEBL Finals. He averaged 17.6 factors, 8.1 rebounds and seven.3 assists per recreation.
“The plan after we met with Taze was to assist him enhance his probabilities within the NBA. He labored extraordinarily exhausting earlier than and after each follow, by no means complained as soon as all summer season and led our group with maturity and poise. The sky is really the restrict for Taze,” Bandits head coach and common supervisor Kyle Julius stated in a press launch.
The 6-foot-4 level guard is anticipated to separate time between the Path Blazers and the group’s G League affiliate once more subsequent season. The NBA common season is scheduled to start in simply over a month, with video games beginning Oct. 22.
