TASMANIAN Hugh Greenwood has headed to Las Vegas to further his basketball career after another stellar season with Los Lobos in New Mexico.
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The 23-year-old Hobartian is reported to have signed with an agent and moved to Nevada to practise with Impact Basketball, which specialises in ‘‘the highest level of player development’’.
New Mexico basketball website mwcconnection. com said Greenwood’s options still ranged from the promised land of the NBA to next year’s Olympics.
‘‘While odds are he will not have his name called during the NBA draft, he will likely get a chance to play in the NBA Summer League — the same league that former Lobo Alex Kirk competed in last summer and worked his way into an NBA contract,’’ it reported.
‘‘If he is not in an NBA camp next year, there is always the NBA development league, Europe or NBL in his home country of Australia.’’
Greenwood is expected to take part in this summer’s World University Games with the aspirations of making the 2016 Olympics with the Boomers, whose head coach Andrej Lemanis is, ironically, visiting Tasmania this weekend.
Greenwood was handed a daunting workload for the Lobos this season when point guard Cullen Neal was injured in the third game.
Expected to be team playmaker as well as chief scorer, Greenwood ended the season averaging 11.6 points per game, was again named to the conference’s All Mountain West Team, earned conference academic honours, was presented with the Lobo outstanding ambassador award and was the team’s co-MVP award winner.
He also started a foundation called the Pink Pack that raised money and awareness for breast cancer research and took part in a 24-hour dance-off to raise money for a local children’s hospital.
‘‘Greenwood is a selfless player that gave his all on and off the court,’’ added mwcconnection.com.
‘‘Whatever Greenwood does from this point on, in the eyes of Lobo fans he will always be remembered as one of the great Lobos not because of his stats or his records but because of his impact on the program and the community.’’