Panathinaikos will be greeting Ramel Curry tonight (23.00) at the “Eleftherios Venizelos” airport, who is expected to enhance the Greens until the end of the season.
Curry is a guard (1.91) who competed for the Ukrainian Donetsk. He was born in Brooklyn (New York, April 17, 1980), studied at Fresno and then at CSU Bakersfield (1999-2002) and then competed in teams of the American continent until 2006 (Tijuana Diablos/Mexico, Long Beach Jam/ABA, Columbus Riverdragons/D-league, Cocodrilos de Caracas/Venezuela, Austin Toros/D-league, Constituyendes de San Cristobal/Dominican Republic). In 2006 he left America for Europe through Scandone Avellino (2006-07). Hapoel Jerusalem followed (2007-08), Scavolini Pesaro (2008-09), Erdemispor (2009), Azovmash Mariupol (January 2010-11), while for the last two years he had been playing for Donetsk.
Curry was last season’s Eurocup top scorer behind 16.4 points per game, but is not all scoring and nothing else, since he was also named best defender to the Ukrainian league. This season he had 14.2 points per game in the Eurocup and also 3 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 1 steal through 6 games. In the VTB League he had 14.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.1 steal through 20 games. In the Ukrainian league his respective numbers were 13.2, 3.3, 2.9 and 1 through 34 games.
In the 2011-12 season he was named to the second best All-Eurocup team. In 2010 he celebrated the Ukrainian League, conquering it with Azovmash Mariupol, an achievement he repeated in 2012 with Donetsk. He has also won the Israeli Cup in 2008 competing for Hapoel Jerusalem.
