Olimpia Milan has reached an agreement to extend Kyle Hines’ contract until 2024. “Kyle is an important part of our family, a person who has allowed us to build the moral and technical foundations of our team. Those values are meaningful beyond any win,” says Olimpia general manager Christos Stavropoulos. “During the last few seasons, Milan has been like a second home for me and my family. I am looking forward to return for one more season and to have the opportunity to make Olimpia fans proud by fighting for more wins and more titles to make this club bigger and bigger,” says Kyle Hines.
IN MILAN – Kyle Hines, born in Sicklerville on 2 September 1986, 1.98 mt. tall center, came to Olimpia in the summer of 2020 from CSKA Moscow. In three years in Milan, he won two Italian championships (2022 and 2023), two Italian Cups (2021 and 2022), one Super Cup (2020) and helped the team qualifying for the Final Four in 2021. It was the fourth player ever to exceed 100 EuroLeague appearances for Olimpia, and he is also the first player in the club’s history for two-point field goals made in the EuroLeague.
HIS CAREER – Kyle Hines played one year at the Camden Catholic High School in New Jersey and then for the next three years at the Timber Creek Regional High School. In 2004 he landed at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, where in 2005 he was named Southern Conference’s freshman of the year and as a junior he was voted Southern Conference Player of the Year (he averaged 20.9 points, 9.0 rebounds per game). As a senior he averaged 19.2 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. During his last three college years, he was always named on the All-Southern 1st team. His professional career began in Italy in Veroli where he won the Legadue Italian Cup for two consecutive seasons (16.9 points and 8.6 rebounds on average during the first year, 18.5 points and 8.1 rebounds during the second). In 2010, he moved to Bamberg where he won the Super Cup, the German Cup, the league championship and was the playoff MVP (he averaged 12.9 points and 5.4 rebounds in his EuroLeague rookie season). In 2011 he arrived at Olympiacos Piraeus where in two years he won the EuroLeague title twice and the Greek championship in 2012. During the first EuroLeague run he averaged 9.9 points and 4.5 rebounds per game, during the second he had 9.4 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. In 2013 he signed for CSKA Moscow where he won the EuroLeague two more times, in 2016 and 2019, in addition to winning six VTB League championships. In 2016 (when he scored 10.9 points per game), in 2018 and in 2022 he was named Defender of the year in the EuroLeague. During the 2019/20 season, he had 8.8 points and 4.9 rebounds per game. He was named to the All-EuroLeague team of the last decade. He is the first American in the list of appearances in the EuroLeague, had nine Final Four appearances, from 2012 to 2021, he is the EuroLeague all-time best offensive rebounder and second for two-pointers made.
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