{"id":513261,"date":"2026-09-02T19:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=513261"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:01:35","slug":"dinamo-sassari-signs-brandon-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dinamo-sassari-signs-brandon-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinamo Sassari signs Brandon Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Dinamo Banco di Sardegna is pleased to announce the signing of <strong>Brandon Tyre Young<\/strong>, an <strong>American-Bulgarian point guard\/shooting guard<\/strong>, who joins the Biancoblu roster for the 2026\/27 season after spending last season in China with the <strong>Shandong Badgers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Young represents an important addition to the roster coached by <strong>Luca Vitali<\/strong>, providing further depth while Canadian guard <strong>Kaza Kajami-Keane<\/strong> continues his recovery. Kajami-Keane will <strong>not require surgery<\/strong> and will continue to be <strong>closely monitored by the Dinamo medical staff<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>THE PLAYER \u2013<\/strong> Born in <strong>Baltimore, Maryland, USA<\/strong>, on November 16, 1991, Young is a <strong>193-cm combo guard with excellent ball-handling skills<\/strong>, capable of playing both point guard and shooting guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">After his college career at <strong>DePaul University<\/strong>, where he posted impressive numbers and established himself as a player capable of creating offense and facilitating for his teammates, Young began his professional career in the United States with the <strong>Texas Legends in the D-League<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">In 2015, he moved to <strong>Europe<\/strong>, beginning a long international career that has taken him to <strong>Greece, Switzerland, Lebanon, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Turkey and France<\/strong>. One of the most notable chapters of his career came with <strong>BBC Monthey<\/strong>, where in the 2016\/17 season he won the <strong>Swiss championship and League Cup<\/strong>, while also being named <strong>Finals MVP<\/strong>. In 2020, with <strong>Levski Sofia<\/strong>, he added the <strong>Bulgarian Cup and Bulgarian Super Cup<\/strong> to his trophy cabinet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">During his European career, Young also played for <strong>Lavrio, Kolossos Rhodes, Cherkasy Mavpy, Kyiv-Basket, Trefl Sopot and CSKA Sofia<\/strong>. With the Polish club, in the 2021\/22 season, he averaged <strong>11.1 points, 3.6 rebounds and 4.8 assists<\/strong>. At CSKA Sofia, meanwhile, he posted impressive numbers across the two seasons between 2022 and 2024, averaging <strong>15.7 points and 6 assists<\/strong>, followed by <strong>15.8 points and 6 assists per game<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">In the latter part of his career, Young played in <strong>Turkey<\/strong> for <strong>MKE Ankarag\u00fcc\u00fc<\/strong>, averaging <strong>18 points and 4 assists per game while shooting 45% from three-point range<\/strong>, before moving to France and joining <strong>Fos Provence Basket<\/strong>, where he averaged <strong>13.2 points per game in 10 Pro B appearances during the 2024\/25 season<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Young has also been part of the <strong>Bulgarian national team setup since 2023<\/strong>, gaining valuable experience on the international stage.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Sassari, <strong>Brandon<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinamo Sassari adds the American-Bulgarian combo guard Brandon Young after his experience in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":513260,"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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-513261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serie-a","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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