Bambitious Nara tabs Chris Otule

Bambitious Nara (B2 League) inked 31-year old American (has also Nigerian passport) 211cm center Chris Otule, college: Marquette for upcoming season. Otule played most recently at M.Kiryat Motzkin in Israeli National League. In 21 games he averaged impressive 19.8ppg, 12.1rpg (#3 in the league), 1.7apg and 2.6bpg last season. A very good year in his career as he was voted to Eurobasket.com All-Israeli National League 3rd Team.
The most of previous (2019-20) season he spent at FE Nagoya in Japanese B2 League where in 15 games he had very remarkable stats: 17.6ppg, 7.9rpg and 2.2apg. Good season as he was selected League Player of the Week. He also played for Aishin Sea Horses in Japanese B1 League. In 13 games he recorded 10.2ppg and 7.1rpg. Good season as he was also here voted League Player of the Week.
He has quite traveled the world as his pro career brought him to three different continents (Europe, Asia and of course North America). Otule has played previously professionally in China (Henan and Guizhou), France (Olympique Antibes, Gravelines Dunkerque and SIG Strasbourg) and Germany (MBC and Crailsheim Merlins).
His team was regular season runner-up in Chinese NBL in 2017.
He attended Marquette University until 2014 and it will be his eighth season in pro basketball.

Bambitious Nara roster for 2021-2022:

Guards:
Kousuke Taneichi
Yutaka Yokoe
Soichiro Fujitaka
Dai Suzuki
Keitaro Kimura
Kensuke Tamai
Shinpei Itabashi

Forward:
Takuya Komoda

Centers:
Kosuke Takeuchi
Chris Otule
Keisuke Mimori

Coach: Fernando Calero


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