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Eritrean - Men Basketball
Thomas Kelati heads to Valencia - Nov 4, 2009 (by Eurobasket News)
Thomas Kelati (195-G/F-82, college: Washington St.) and Valencia have reached an agreement on terms of the deal. The Eritrean-US guard needs to pass medical tests before finalizing the contract with Valencia. The 27-year-old player played for Unicaja Malaga last season. Thomas Kelati averaged 10.3 points, 1.7 boards and 1.5 assists per game in the ACB. In Euroleague he delivered 11.8 points, 1.9 boards and 1.3 assists
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Thomas Kelati  (195-G/F-82, college: Washington St.) and Valencia have reached an agreement on terms of the deal. The Eritrean-US guard needs to pass medical tests before finalizing the contract with Valencia. The 27-year-old player played for Unicaja Malaga last season. Thomas Kelati averaged 10.3 points, 1.7 boards and 1.5 assists per game in the ACB. In Euroleague he delivered 11.8 points, 1.9 boards and 1.3 assists. Kelati spent the pre-season with the Los Angeles Lakers but was waived prior to the regular season. Valencia also waived Rawle Marshall (201-G-82, college: Oakland).
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Los Angeles Lakers sign Thomas Kelati - Oct 1, 2009 (by Eurobasket News)
The Los Angeles Lakers have signed free agent guard Thomas Kelati (6'5''-G/F-82, college: Washington St.). The deal was announced yesterday.
The 27-year old Thomas Kelati is coming to NBA from Spanish team Unicaja Malaga. Actually, during the summer he supposed to join Greek team Olympiacos Pireus, but at the end that transfer failed. Kelati appeared 16 times in Euroleague last season averaging 11.8 ppg, 1.9 rpg and 1.3 apg. In Spanish ACB league he had 10
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The Los Angeles Lakers have signed free agent guard Thomas Kelati (6'5''-G/F-82, college: Washington St.). The deal was announced yesterday.
The 27-year old Thomas Kelati is coming to NBA from Spanish team Unicaja Malaga. Actually, during the summer he supposed to join Greek team Olympiacos Pireus, but at the end that transfer failed. Kelati appeared 16 times in Euroleague last season averaging 11.8 ppg, 1.9 rpg and 1.3 apg. In Spanish ACB league he had 10.3 ppg, 1.7 rpg and 1.5 spg for 37 games. Unicaja Malaga reached ACB Semifinals.
From 2006 to 2008 Thomas Kelati was a player of Polish team BOT Turow Zgorzelec. With them, Kelati reached ULEB Cup Quarterfinals in 2008 and played twice in domestic championship Playoff Finals. Second season with the team Kelati ended with 14.8 ppg and 3.2 rpg for 15 ULEB Cup games. In Polish league he had 15.2 ppg and 3 rpg. In 2007, he was named 'Eurobasket.com All-Polish League Player of the Year -07'.
Before Unicaja and Turow, Thomas Kelati played one year for Belgian team Dexia Mons-Hainaut averaging 4.1 ppg and 1.5 rpg for 33 games. That was his first season in Europe, after he graduated at Washington State University. In senior year with Washington, Kelati had 14.3 ppg and 4.3 rpg.
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Teschm top-scores in Germany - Oct 29, 2008 (by Kristian Santiago)
Promising shooting guard Quflom Teschm (182-G-82) scored season-high 21 points in his team's 120-95 winner at home against the SKG Rossdorf Torros in the Regionalliga Southwest-North in Germany.
The Eritrean netted in three shots from beyond the arc as well as three from two-point range and stayed nearly perfect from the foul-line (6/7 FT) to lead all players in scoring in the game.
Other Eritreans active abroad were:
- Thomas Kelati (195-G/F-82, college: Washington St.
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Promising shooting guard Quflom Teschm (182-G-82) scored season-high 21 points in his team's 120-95 winner at home against the SKG Rossdorf Torros in the Regionalliga Southwest-North in Germany.
The Eritrean netted in three shots from beyond the arc as well as three from two-point range and stayed nearly perfect from the foul-line (6/7 FT) to lead all players in scoring in the game.
Other Eritreans active abroad were:
- Thomas Kelati (195-G/F-82, college: Washington St.) top-scored in Malaga with 14 points (He converted three 3 point-shots) in their 76-66 winner over DKV Joventut Badalona.The star of Eritrean hoops averages currently 10,6 ppg in the Spanish ACB for the Euroleague-team Unicaja Malaga.
- Joe Tesfaldet (186-G-80, agency: Scorers 1st Sportmanagement) collected three points in nine minutes for Giants Noerdlingen in the German BBL. His team lost to the other Giants (Duesseldorf) by the score of 79-60.
- Robel Atoberhan (188-F-85) scored two points for VfB 1900 Giessen Pointers in the 100-98 winner over TuS Treis-Karden in the Regionalliga Southwest in Germany.
- Robel's brother Alexander Atoberhan (189-G-85) netted in 12 points (Three of them were 3-point shots) in a 82-61 rout of MTV Kronberg against TV Lich II last Saturday.
- In the same game, Jonathan Mesghna (199-F-89) managed to score two points for MTV Kronberg.
- Guard Dahlak Tesfahiwet scored five points in a terrible 85-51 loss of his ACT Kassel against SC Bergstrasse in the Oberliga Hessen.
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Thomas Kelati shines in ACB league - Oct 14, 2008
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A weeky round-up on the Eritrean Diaspora - Oct 9, 2008
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Kelati celebrates silver with Turow - Jun 6, 2008
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Thomas Kelati nailed 30 for Turow in Game 2 - May 19, 2008
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Kelati finished his wondeful season in ULEB CUP - Apr 12, 2008
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Thomas produces 22 points for the win - Mar 12, 2008
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Kelati Thomas settled down in Poland - Jan 16, 2008
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Kelati Interview : " Maybe in a few years you will see more Eritrean players" - Jan 8, 2008
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Kelati voted Poland's POY ! - Jun 21, 2007
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Kelati and Turow move on to the semi finals - Apr 19, 2007
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A quick look on Eritreans in German basketball leagues - Jan 26, 2007
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Tesfaghebriel into his second year at Bishop's - Dec 7, 2006
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Eritrean Basketball Tournament in Toronto,Canada - Dec 7, 2006
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NBBL: Young hopeful Eritrean rises quickly to the top - Nov 23, 2006
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Olympic solidarity basketball clinic - May 10, 2006
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Eritrean youngsters in Germany - Mar 7, 2006
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Eritrean National Senior Under 20 year teams for 2006 Hope full - Feb 20, 2006
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