Zenit BC and Markus Howard have agreed to a deal. The 27-year-old american ruard has signed a contract through the end of the 2027/28 season.
Markus was born on March 3, 1999, in Morristown, New Jersey (USA). He began his basketball career at a high school in Arizona before representing Marquette University at the NCAA level. In his senior year, Howard averaged 27.8 points and 3.3 assists per game, establishing himself as one of the best players in the history of the university’s basketball program. He scored a total of 2761 points during his time at Marquette.
After going undrafted in the 2020 NBA Draft, Howard signed a two-way contract with the Denver Nuggets. Over two seasons with the Nuggets, he played 68 regular-season games and 9 playoff games, making a total of 77 NBA appearances.
In the 2021/22 season, Howard also played for the Grand Rapids Gold in the NBA G League.
For the past four years, Markus has represented Baskonia, which he joined in the summer of 2022. Last season, the guard won the Spanish Cup with the Basque club.
Howard has made 130 EuroLeague appearances. In the 2023/24 season, playing under Duško Ivanović, the current head coach of the Blue-White-Sky Blues, he was one of the competition’s leading scorers, averaging 19.5 points per game. In the 2025/26 season, Markus played 23 games in Europe’s premier club competition, averaging 10.3 points and 2.1 assists in 21 minutes per game.
At international level, Howard won gold with the USA national team at the 2016 FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup. However, by 2025, the guard had changed his sporting nationality and made his debut for Puerto Rico in an AmeriCup qualifying game against the United States, recording 17 points and five rebounds.
Zenit BC welcomes Markus Howard to St. Petersburg and wishes him success on the court!
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