Basabe comes back to Mayaguez

- September 30, 2020

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Melsahn Basabe

Indios de Mayaguez (BSN) inked 28-year old naturalized American power forward Melsahn Basabe (201-100kg-92, college: Iowa). It is actually his comeback to Indios as he has played here before. Basabe played most recently at BK Slavia Zilina in Slovakian 1 Liga. In 5 SBL games he averaged 13.8ppg, 10.2rpg and 1.8apg previous season.
Basabe is a very experienced player. He has quite traveled the world as his pro career brought him to eleven different countries on three different continents (Europe, Latin America and of course North America). Basabe has played previously professionally in Belgium (Antwerp Giants), Bulgaria (Academik Sofia), Finland (Seagulls), Germany (BG Goettingen), Greece (Doxa Lefkadas), Israel (Hapoel Kfar Saba), Italy (Napoli), Poland (AZS Koszalin), Slovakia (Lucenec), Puerto Rico (Brujos and Humacao) and The Basketball Tournament (Iowa United). He received also Eurobasket.com All-Slovakian League 2nd Team award in 2020.
Basabe's team made it to the Bulgarian Cup final in 2017.
He attended University of Iowa until 2014 and it will be his seventh season in pro basketball.

By Eurobasket Data Center