Bishop comes back to Bayamon

Tony Bishop

Vaqueros-de-Bayamon/1677">Vaqueros de Bayamon (BSN) signed 34-year-old Panamanian forward Tony Bishop, who stands at 202cm tall and played college basketball at Texas State at San Marcos. Bishop, represented by 011 Sports agency, is returning to Vaqueros after previously playing for the team. During the summer, he played for Atleticos de San German in the Puerto Rican BSN league, where he averaged 14.2ppg, 6.5rpg, and 1.8apg in 13 games. Earlier in the season, he also played for Vaqueros, another Puerto Rican team.
Bishop represented Panama at the FIBA World Cup 2023 Americas Qualifiers last year. Bishop's team got to the Semifinals and he had 15 ppg.
He is a very experienced player. Bishop has quite traveled the world as his pro career brought him to thirteen different countries on four different continents (Europe, Asia, Latin America and of course North America). He has played previously professionally in Denmark (Bakken and Aalborg), Germany (Eisbaeren Bremerhaven), Japan (Kanazawa), Lithuania (Nevezis), Mexico (Halcones UV Xalapa), Panama (Correcaminos), Philippines (Meralco Bolts and Ginebra Kings), Poland (Spojnia), Romania (Pitesti), Taiwan (Suns), Puerto Rico (Capitanes, Cangrejeros and Mets), NBA G League (RGV Vipers) and Nicaragua (Real Esteli). His team made it to the PBA Commissioner's Final Four in 2024.
He was voted Eurobasket.com All-Romanian League Forward of the Year in 2019 among many awards.
Bishop graduated from Texas State at San Marcos in 2011 and it'll be his 15th season in pro basketball. He played also for Richland College for 2 years.


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