Reyer Venezia officially signs Rodney McGruder

New market move for Reyer Venezia. President Casarin’s club announces the agreement with Rodney McGruder, former NBA player seen briefly last year with Olimpia Milano

Rodney McGruder is a Umana Reyer player

Umana Reyer announces it has reached an agreement with Rodney McGruder, a 194-centimetre guard who wore Olimpia Milano’s jersey last season.

McGruder was born on July 29, 1991 in Landover, Maryland (USA) and grew up basketball at Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, before transferring to Jacksonville, Florida. In 2009, he embarked on his four-year college career at Kansas State. In his sophomore year he scored 11.1 points with 5.9 rebounds per game, and in his junior year he rose to 15.8 points. As a senior, in his fourth year of college, he averaged 15.6 points and 5.4 rebounds, leading Kansas State to first place in the Big 12.

In 2013 he signs with the Oklahoma City Thunder and in December moves to Atomeromu Paks, averaging 14.4 points and 5.3 rebounds in the Hungarian league. He starts the 2014/15 season with Golden State and then signs with the Boston Celtics and plays in Maine and Sioux Falls in the G-League. He then plays another season in Sioux Falls winning the G-League title and finally in 2016 signs a three-year contract with the Miami Heat playing 162 NBA games with 112 appearances in the quintet, and 6.7 points and 3.3 rebounds per contest. After the Miami experience ended, he played one year for the Los Angeles Clippers (56 games) and then three more years in Detroit, with 99 appearances on the court, 16 in the quintet, and a 5.5-point average.

Since January 2024, he has worn the Olimpia Milano jersey with which he plays in the Euroleague.

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