Eritrean-American-Polish star Thomas Kelati has been playing his basketball in Spain the past couple of years after transferring from Russia where he won a championship.He spent the past 2 years with UCAM Murcia CB of the Spanish league. Kelati finished this past season with an average of
5.6 points per game mostly playing as a sixth man. Now at 33-years Thomas will make his home with Polish side STELMA BC Zielona Gora where he has signed a two year contract. Kelati who played his college basketball at Washington State University has also represented Poland on the national team level. After signing with a Belgian team fresh out of college he went on to play in Poland where he was player of the year in the Polish league. He then got a short term contract with the Los Angeles Lakers only to see action in the pre-season games. He will be joining some of his team mates from the Polish national team as he makes his way back to where his early days of basketball started in Poland.
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| Thomas playing for Poland's national team. STELMA BC Zielona Gora plays in the Polish premier league and also participates in the European league where they play top teams from other European nations where Thomas has won championships. |
The team Zielona Góra, is also known as Stelmet Zielona Góra for
sponsorship reasons, or Zastal Zielona Góra a historic name that the fans
identify with. It is home base is in
Zielona Góra, Poland. It also happens to be the 2015 Polish Cup and Super Cup champion.
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