{"id":511700,"date":"2026-08-26T12:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=511700"},"modified":"2026-08-26T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:19:38","slug":"deandre-pinckney-joins-aek-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/deandre-pinckney-joins-aek-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"DeAndre Pinckney joins AEK BC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AEK BC have officially announced the signing of DeAndre Pinckney<\/strong>, a 26-year-old American forward standing 2.03 meters tall.<\/p>\n

Born on February 29, 2000, in Miami Gardens, Florida, Pinckney played his college basketball at Southern Mississippi<\/strong>, graduating in 2023. During his final NCAA season, he averaged 12.9 points and 6.6 rebounds per game<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Pinckney\u2019s international experience<\/h2>\n

Over the past three seasons, Pinckney has played for six different teams across Europe and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

He began his professional career with the Bakken Bears<\/strong> in Denmark, averaging 15.8 points and 8.1 rebounds. He then moved to France, where he played for Le Portel<\/strong>, recording 7.4 points and 4.4 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

Pinckney subsequently joined Hapoel Haifa<\/strong> in Israel, where he averaged 13.5 points and 6.5 rebounds, before moving to Romania to play for V\u00e2lcea<\/strong>, posting 13.6 points and 5.8 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Strong numbers with Ramat Gan<\/h2>\n

The American forward returned to Israel with Ramat Gan<\/strong>, enjoying one of his most productive professional seasons.<\/p>\n

Pinckney averaged 17.5 points and 7.3 rebounds per game<\/strong>, establishing himself as an important contributor on both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n

He most recently played for Arecibo<\/strong> in Puerto Rico, where he finished with 11 points and 7.7 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

AEK are now adding a versatile forward with significant international experience despite his relatively young age.<\/p>\n

DeAndre Pinckney is ready for his next challenge with the \u201cQueen.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 26-year-old American forward becomes the latest addition to the Greek club after playing for six different teams over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":511699,"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":[195,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-511700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball-champions-league","category-greece","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/WELCOME_PINCKNEY_820x540_SITE.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511700","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=511700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511700"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=511700"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=511700"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=511700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}