Fenerbahce Beko Men’s Basketball Team announced that it has recruited US-born Greek playmaker Tyler Dorsey.
According to the statement made by the yellow-dark blue club, the 27-year-old basketball player will wear Fenerbahçe Beko jersey until the end of the 2024-2025 season.
Tyler Dorsey, who was born in the USA and plays for the Greek National Team, was included in the squad by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2017 NBA summer drafts.
The 1.96-meter-tall basketball player, who played for the Atlanta Hawks for 2 years and played 56 games, signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2019.
Tyler Dorsey, who transferred to Greece’s Olympiakos team in the 2021-2022 season, then reached an agreement with NBA teams Dallas Mavericks at the beginning of this season.
The 27-year-old player, who played in 3 games in the NBA this season, was released in December.
Fenerbahce Head Coach Dimitris Itoudis, who is also the head of the Greek National Team, and Tyler Dorsey, who previously served in the national team, will sweat for the success of the yellow-dark blue team this time with an experienced coach.
The club’s statement is as follows:
Fenerbahçe: “Our Fenerbahçe Beko Men’s Basketball Team has reached an agreement with Greek scoring guard Tyler Dorsey (1.96, 1996) until the end of the 2024-25 season.
WHO IS TYLER DORSEY?
Born on February 18, 1996 in Pasadena, California, and also holds American citizenship, Tyler Dorsey continued his basketball career with the Oregon Ducks in the NCAA after graduating from Maranatha in high school.
Making his debut with Oregon in 2015-16, Dorsey played in 36 games and scored 13.4 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 2.0 assists. The successful scorer averaged 14.6 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 39 games in his second year.
Dorsey, who participated in the NBA draft in the summer of 2017, was selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the 2nd round 41st pick. Tyler Dorsey signed a two-year contract with the Atlanta Hawks that same summer.
In his first season in the NBA, Dorsey played 56 games for Atlanta and averaged 7.2 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.4 assists. Dorsey also played in 10 games for the Erie Bay Hawks, one of the G-League teams, and scored 19.1 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 1.4 steals.
Dorsey, who spent the summer of 2018 in the Summer League with the Atlanta Hawks organization and started the 2018-19 season in Atlanta in the NBA, produced 3.3 points and 1.6 assists in 27 games. Transferring to the Memphis Grizzlies in February 2019, Dorsey played in 21 games here as well and produced 9.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1.9 assists statistics. Dorsey averaged 24.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.3 assists in 4 games in the G-League with the Memphis Hustle in the same season.
Deciding to come to Europe in the summer of 2019 and signing a contract with Israel’s strong team Maccabi Tel Aviv, Dorsey scored 10.0 points, 2.4 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.0 steals in the EuroLeague in his first season, and 12.9 points and 4.4 rebounds in the Israeli League. He had 3.2 assists and 1.1 steals. Star scorer, 11.2 points, 2.7 rebounds, 1.6 assists in EuroLeague with Maccabi in the 2020-21 season; In the Israeli League, he averaged 11.7 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists. Dorsey was a teammate of our player, Scottie Wilbekin, while he won the Israeli League title in both seasons he spent in Maccabi.
Tyler Dorsey, who transferred to Greece’s Olympiakos team in the 2021-22 season, was one of the leading players in his team’s highly successful season. Having averaged 12.8 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.0 assists in 38 EuroLeague games with Olympiakos, Dorsey had an important share in his team’s playing in the Final Four. Dorsey averaged 10.7 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.8 in the Greek League. Dorsey’s Olympiakos won the Greek League and the Greek Cup. Tyler Dorsey was named Greek Cup MVP.
Dorsey, who wanted to try his luck in the NBA once again in the 2022-23 season, signed a two-way contract with the Dallas Mavericks. Dorsey, who had a chance in three games with Dallas, was released in December. After signing a contract with Texas Legends, one of the G-League teams, the successful name played in 12 games here as well, scoring 22.1 points, 4.8 rebounds and 2.4 assists. Tyler Dorsey was released from the Texas Legends’ team last week.
Dorsey also regularly wears the Greek national team jersey. The experienced scorer recently took part in seven games with the Greek National Team under the management of Dimitris Itoudis in the 2022 European Championship and had 13.6 points, 2.3 rebounds, 1.1 assists, 1.1 steals statistics.