Wideman is back at M.Raanana, Hamilton leaves

- December 10, 2024

POSTED BY: Eran Sela

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Tyler Wideman

Tyler Wideman

Maccabi Raanana (National League) agreed terms with 29-year old American ex-international power forward Tyler Wideman (203cm-1995, college: Butler). It is actually his comeback to Raanana as he has played here before. Wideman already started the season at Al Bataeh in UAE ULB league. The last season he played at Elachem Vigevano 1955 in Italian Serie A2 where in 36 games he had very impressive stats: 15.5ppg, 6.9rpg, 2.0apg and 1.1spg. He was also named League Player of the Week (2 times).
Wideman represented USA at the Panamerican Games in Lima (Peru) five years ago. His team won Bronze and his stats at that event were 5 games: 2.4ppg, 1.6rpg.
He has played also professionally in Croatia (Cedevita), Hungary (Sopron KC) and Israel (Ramat Hasharon).
The list of the past achievements is quite long as among others he played in the final of Croatian Premijer Liga in 2019. Wideman was voted to Eurobasket.com All-Israeli National League Honorable Mention in 2022.
He graduated from Butler University in 2018 and it is his seventh season as a professional player.