{"id":454754,"date":"2025-08-09T10:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=454754"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:48:50","slug":"brandon-jefferson-signs-with-a-s-karditsa-iaponiki-as-new-floor-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/brandon-jefferson-signs-with-a-s-karditsa-iaponiki-as-new-floor-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Jefferson Signs with A.S. Karditsa Iaponiki as New Floor General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2110\" data-end=\"2411\"><strong data-start=\"2137\" data-end=\"2163\">A.S. Karditsa Iaponiki<\/strong> has announced the signing of <strong data-start=\"2193\" data-end=\"2214\">Brandon Jefferson<\/strong>, a 5\u20199\u201d (1.75 m), 34-year-old American guard who led the French league in scoring in 2021\u201322 with historic Pau-Orthez and won the Slovenian league and cup double in 2017 with Olimpija Ljubljana.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2413\" data-end=\"2704\">Jefferson becomes the club\u2019s tenth roster addition ahead of the new season, following the re-signings of Nikos Diplaros, Leonidas Kaselakis, Giorgos Kamperidis, and Noah Horchler, as well as the signings of El Ellis, Damien Jefferson, D\u2019Maggio Wiggins, Giannis Zevgara, and Thomas Zevgara.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2706\" data-end=\"3117\">Born on November 25, 1991, in Flower Mound, Texas, Jefferson began his collegiate career at <strong data-start=\"2798\" data-end=\"2813\">Metro State<\/strong> (NCAA Division II) from 2010 to 2014, playing 130 games and averaging 14.9 points, 2.8 rebounds, 2.3 assists, and 1.9 steals. In his senior year, he was named <strong data-start=\"2973\" data-end=\"3006\">Conference Player of the Year<\/strong>, averaging 21.6 points on 45% shooting from both two and three-point range and 92% from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3119\" data-end=\"3639\">He turned pro in 2014 in Finland, finishing as the league\u2019s fourth-leading scorer (18.4 ppg). His career then took him to Germany (Hagen), Slovenia (Olimpija Ljubljana, winning both league and cup), Italy (Trapani), and a long stretch in France with Orl\u00e9ans, SIG Strasbourg, and Pau-Orthez, where he claimed the <strong data-start=\"3431\" data-end=\"3450\">2022 French Cup<\/strong>. He also spent a season in China with the Tianjin Pioneers, before returning to Europe with stints at Banco di Sardegna Sassari in Italy and JL Bourg in France, competing in the EuroCup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3641\" data-end=\"3799\">Across his professional career, Jefferson has appeared in <strong data-start=\"3699\" data-end=\"3712\">414 games<\/strong> (63 in European competitions), averaging 15.5 points, 2.9 rebounds, and 3.7 assists.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3801\" data-end=\"3903\">Karditsa officially welcomes him and wishes him health, energy, and success for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jefferson becomes the club\u2019s tenth roster addition ahead of the new season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":375938,"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":[54],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[20,15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-454754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grecia","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-ufficiale","typology-comunicato"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/CAN_1568.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454754","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454754"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=454754"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=454754"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=454754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}