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Gladiators Trier secure point guard Eli Brooks from Oldenburg!
Eli Brooks is moving from EWE Baskets Oldenburg to Gladiators Trier for the 2025/26 BBL season. New career phase begins.
Gladiators Trier secure point guard Eli Brooks from Oldenburg!
In an exciting transfer, development player Eli Brooks has joined the VET-CONCEPT Gladiators Trier. The 25-year-old athlete is moving from EWE Baskets Oldenburg to the Rhineland-Palatinate city on the Moselle. With a height of 1.85 meters and a weight of 84 kilograms, Brooks brings a lot of talent and experience to the easyCredit BBL.
Born in 1998, Brooks began his basketball career at the University of Michigan, where he played an impressive 159 NCAA games between 2017 and 2022. In his final year there, he averaged 12.8 points and grabbed just under four rebounds per game with a solid 40 percent three-point shot. After his college days, Brooks moved to the G-League, where he played for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants and played 15 games in the 2022/23 season.
Successful station in Italy
In the following season (2023/24) he moved to Pallacanestro Trieste, where he played a key role in helping the team win the second division championship and gain promotion to the top Italian league. During this time, he averaged 14.5 points in over 31 minutes of playing time and became his team's second-best scorer. These outstanding performances did not go unnoticed: In the 2022-23 season, Brooks was named to the Eurobasket.com All-Italian Serie A2 Honorable Mention.
After his first year in Oldenburg, in which he played 14 main round games and two playoff games, he can look back on a record of 8.9 points, 3.0 assists and 2.1 rebounds per game. The shooting rate of 56.1% from the two-point range is remarkable, even if there is still room for improvement from the three-point line at 25%. A thumb injury caused a break, but he returned in time for the end of the season.
A win for the Gladiators
Jacques Schneider, the head coach of Gladiators Trier, highlights Brooks' experience, type of player and abilities. He particularly appreciates his qualities in defense and playmaking, which will be of great benefit to the team in the coming season. With this signing, the Gladiators show that they have a good knack for promising talent and want to strengthen themselves properly.
In any case, the Trier team is looking forward to next season and being able to attack with Eli Brooks in the lineup. The basketball community is excited to see how the new addition will perform in the coming season. The transfer shows once again that the sport of basketball in Germany is dynamic and always has new surprises in store, as the developments in the transfer portal make clear.
eurobasket.com also sheds light on this development and the clubs in German basketball, while College Football Network reports on the many exciting talents in the Transfer portal informed. It remains to be seen how Brooks will perform in Trier and what successes he can celebrate together with the Gladiators.