Cuenca Basket Club tabs Emanual Shepherd

Cuenca Basket Club (Liga Basquet Pro) inked 30-year old Canadian 203cm power forward Emanual Shepherd (college: Southern). He was top rebounder at Pergamino Basket in Argentinian La Liga last season where in 31 La Liga Argentina games he averaged 14.7ppg, 9.1rpg (#5 in the league) and 1.6apg. Good season as he was voted League Player of the Week.
He is a very experienced player. Shepherd has quite traveled the world as his pro career brought him to ten different countries on four different continents (Europe, Asia, Latin America and of course North America). He has played professionally in Canada (Surge and Newfoundland), Chile (Las Animas), Finland (Pyrinto and Honka), Latvia (BK Ogre), Portugal (Esgueira), Qatar (Al Shamal), Romania (Miercurea Ciuc), Armenia (Urartu) and Ecuador (Jorge Guzman CD). His team was regular season runner-up in Chilean League Apertura Conferencia Sur in 2026.
Among many awards he was selected Eurobasket.com All-Eurasian League Forward of the Year back in 2020.
Shepherd graduated from Southern University in 2018 and it will be his ninth season in pro basketball. He played also for Cochise College for 2 years.