Sharks sign Billy Baron, ex Milano

Billy Baron

Shanghai Sharks (CBA) signed 33-year old USA ex-international guard Billy Baron (188cm-88kg-1990, college: Canisius) for upcoming 2024-25 season. He played most recently at AX Armani Exchange Milano in Italian Serie A. In two games he had just 2.5ppg and 1.0spg last season. He also played 3 games in Euroleague where he recorded only 2.3ppg, 2.3rpg, 3.0apg and 1.3spg.
Baron has tried to make it to the NBA and played in the NBA Pro Summer League in 2015. He was a member of USA Senior National Team back in 2017.
Baron is quite experienced player. He has played also professionally in Belgium (Spirou Charleroi), Lithuania (Rytas), Russia (Zenit), Serbia (Crvena zvezda), Spain (UCAM) and Turkey (Eskisehir). Baron won Italian SerieA championship title in 2023. He was voted to Eurobasket.com All-Euroleague Honorable Mention in 2023.
Baron graduated from Canisius College in 2014 and it will be his eleventh (!!!) season as a professional player. He played for other colleges like: University of Rhode Island, The University of Virginia.

Shanghai Sharks roster for 2024-25:

Zheng Liu
Hanchen Luo
Pengfei Yan
Zhelin Wang
D.J. Wilson
Tremont Waters
Hao Dai
Tangwen Yuan
Terry Li
Liyongwei Xie
Zhengqing Liu
Hongquan Li
Menglin Wan
Zipeng Liu
Hao Dong


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