The Tasmania JackJumpers are pleased to announce the signing of import Rashard Kelly on a one-year deal ahead of the 2022\/23 Hungry Jack\u2019s NBL season.<\/p>\n
6\u20197 Kelly is a versatile power forward currently playing in France\u2019s LNB Pro A as a starting five player with JDA Dijon Basket.<\/p>\n
\u201cRashard is an incredibly mobile forward, who we think will bring the size and versatility we\u2019re looking for\u201d CEO Simon Brookhouse said.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old American has averaged 11.4 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 38 games for Dijon, including a season-high 28 points against ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cRashard has a really impressive resume and has been dominant for Dijon this season, playing a lot of minutes. But importantly, we also think he has the right attitude and personal attributes that will complement our group, and a willingness to buy in to the systems and foundations that we were able to build in our first season.<\/p>\n
\u201cRashard has always been part of winning teams, from the Collegiate to professional level and his willingness to do the little things that build to overall team success.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think JackJumpers fans will love his versatility and work rate. He\u2019s a really exciting player who can play above the rim and also defend at a very high level\u201d Brookhouse said.<\/p>\n
Kelly graduated from Wichita State University in Kansas in 2018, playing with the Wichita State Shockers is the NCAA Division 1 college basketball program.<\/p>\n
He then played with Russian club Parma and suited up in the 2019 VTB United League All-Star Game, before stints in Italy, Turkey and France.<\/p>\n
Kelly is the JackJumpers 11th<\/sup> player and second import secured on the roster for the 2022\/23 season, following the re-signing of Josh Magette.<\/p>\n Kelly will become part of the Tasmania JackJumpers bloodline as the 13th<\/sup> main roster player to sign with the NBL expansion club. He will arrive in Tasmania in August for JackJumpers pre-season training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Tasmania JackJumpers are pleased to announce the signing of import Rashard Kelly on a one-year deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":280348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[389],"tags":[9472,16129],"rumors":[],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-280347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-rashard-kelly-en","tag-tasmania-jackjumper","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/FVuvAkracAAZ3is.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280347"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=280347"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=280347"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=280347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}