Lamonte comes back to La Paz

- March 7, 2020

POSTED BY: Dimitri Chelidze

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Kyle Lamonte

Mantarrayas de La Paz (CIBACOPA) resign an experienced 35-year old American guard Kyle Lamonte (191-86kg-84, college: William Carey). It is actually his comeback to Mantarrayas as he has played here before. Lamonte just played at Huracanes in the LNBP. In 20 games he recorded very impressive stats: 17.3ppg, 5.1rpg, 4.0apg, and 1.1spg this season. A very spectacular year in his career as he was voted to Mexican LNPB All-Star Game. Last summer Lamonte played at Mantarrayas where in 24 CIBACOPA games he averaged remarkable 19.1ppg, 4.0rpg, 5.2apg, and 1.4spg. He helped them to make it to the final. Great season indeed as he was voted to Latinbasket.com All-Mexican CIBACOPA 1st Team, All-Imports Team and League Player of the Week.

The list of the past achievements is quite long as among others Lamonte's team won Colombian Liga DirecTV-1 Group 1 Regular Season in 2014. He was also voted Latinbasket.com All-Colombian Liga DirecTV Player of the Year and Latinbasket.com All-Colombian Liga DirecTV Import Player of the Year back in 2013.

Lamonte is a quite experienced player. Thanks to his pro career he managed to play on three different continents (Europe, Latin America and of course North America) in nine different countries. Lamonte has played previously professionally in Argentina (Atenas, Penarol and Olimpico de La Banda), Brazil (Flamengo and Brasilia), Chile (Universidad de Concepcion), Dominican Rep., Lithuania (Pieno Zvaigzdes Pasvalys), Turkey, Uruguay (Aguada, Hebraica, Olimpia, Malvin, and Urunday), Dominican Republic (CDP Domingo Paulino Santiago, Caneros Del Este, La Cancha and Don Bosco) and Colombia (Guerreros).

Lamonte is a former Eurobasket Summer League player, which is considered top summer league for players who want to play basketball overseas.

He attended William Carey University until 2008 and it is his twelfth (!!!) season as a professional player.

The scouts describe him following way: An undersized 2 player, who has great shooting accuracy and points production per minute. Gives his best when he attacks the basket inside, in this situation can be unstoppable. Also, he's a good defensive player, who is very agile but a little limited by his size. He grabs more rebounds than expected.

By Eurobasket Data Center