{"id":16817,"date":"2021-07-04T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=16817"},"modified":"2021-07-04T10:15:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T10:15:33","slug":"vice-champion-of-ukraine-signed-a-canadian-defender-in-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=16817","title":{"rendered":"Vice-Champion of Ukraine Signed a Canadian Defender in Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next season, 24-year-old Canadian defender Yasiin Joseph will play for BC Zaporizhia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; July 4, 2021 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?cat=20\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Sport<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joseph was born in Ottawa, Canada. He studied and played basketball at Carleton University &#8211; the strongest student basketball franchise of the XXI century in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13357\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13357\">Canada <\/a>&#8211; with 15 championship titles in 20 years. In his final student season, Joseph averaged 13.2 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 assists in 22 minutes on the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last season was the first for Yasiin in his European career. He played in the Dutch championship for &#8220;Landstate Hammers&#8221;. In the semifinals of the playoffs, his team lost to the future champion from the city of Leiden. In the Netherlands, Joseph averaged 12.4 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 3.8 assists in 28 minutes spent on the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last season, Zaporizhia became the silver medalist of the Ukrainian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14077\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14077\">championship<\/a>, losing to Prometheus in three matches of the final series of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Read Also: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14625\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14625\">Dnipro Wins at the Start of the Semifinal Series of Basketball<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Source<\/span>: <span style=\"color:#fae000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Ukrgate<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next season, 24-year-old Canadian defender Yasiin Joseph will play for BC Zaporizhia. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; July 4, 2021 \u2013 Sport Joseph was born in Ottawa, Canada. He studied and played basketball at Carleton University &#8211; the strongest student basketball franchise of the XXI century in Canada &#8211; with 15 championship titles in 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[130,210,1701,3643,4589,996,2399,7529],"class_list":["post-16817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sport","tag-basketball","tag-champion","tag-defender","tag-sign","tag-sports-news","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-yasiin-joseph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16819,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817\/revisions\/16819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}