Loongs ink Isaiah Taylor, ex Zalgiris

Isaiah Taylor

Shanxi Loongs (CBA) signed 29-year old American point guard Isaiah Taylor (190cm-77kg-1994, college: Texas) for upcoming 2023-24 season. Taylor played last season at Zalgiris in Lithuanian LKL league. He managed to play in three leagues in two countries last year. In 21 LKL games he had 10.0ppg, 1.5rpg and 3.5apg. Taylor helped them to win the league title. 2022-23 was a great season as he was voted Eurobasket.com All-Lithuanian LKL Finals MVP. He also played 15 games in Euroleague where he recorded 7.9ppg, 1.1rpg and 2.4apg. Taylor contributed to his team making it to the quarterfinals. The other team he played shortly was Efes in Turkish BSL. In only one game he averaged 7 points, 1 rebound and 1 block. He also played 11 games in Euroleague where he got just 2.6ppg.
Taylor has tried to make it to the NBA and played in the NBA Pro Summer League in 2016.
He is quite experienced player. Taylor has played also professionally in Israel (Maccabi Effie Capital Rishon Le-Zion), Spain (Murcia), NBA (Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors) and NBA G League (RGV Vipers and College Park SkyHawks).
He graduated from University of Texas in 2016 and it will be his eighth season as a professional player.



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