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Olimpia Milano has reached a deal up to the 2025\/26 season with Zach LeDay, born in Dallas, Texas, on 30 May 1994, 2.03 mt tall, power forward, who spent the last three seasons at Partizan Belgrade, already in Milan during the 2020\/21 season.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZACH LEDAY<\/u><\/em><\/strong> – “In what I consider a very happy and beautiful day, I want to keep things short, simple and hopefully sweet: Milan, it is true, I’m back!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIS CAREER <\/u><\/em><\/strong>– Growing up in Dallas, Zach LeDay played at Skyline High School, before transferring to The Colony High School for his senior year of high school. After two years at South Florida University, he transferred to Virginia Tech for his final two seasons of college eligibility. During the first he averaged 15.5 points and 7.9 rebounds per game, in the last he rose to 17.0 points per game, as well as 7.6 rebounds. In 2017 he was named to the second All-ACC Conference Tournament. In 2017 he began his professional career at Hapoel Gilboa in Israel, where he averaged 19.5 points (the league second-best scorer) with 8.2 rebounds per game (fifth overall). He was also second in personal rating and blocks per game. The following season, he moved to Olympiacos Piraeus where in the EuroLeague he averaged 9.7 points and 4.0 rebounds per game (11.2 points and 4.9 rebounds on average in the Greek league). In 2019 he moved to Zalgiris Kaunas where he averaged 11.8 points and 4.7 rebounds per game. He won the Lithuanian championship and the Lithuanian Cup. In 2020 he came to Milan, and helped the team win the Super Cup, the Italian Cup and was instrumental in helping to reach the EuroLeague Final Four (10.0 points and 4.5 rebounds on average, 46.6 percent three-point shooting, 91.8 free-throw shooting). In the league, he averaged 11.2 points and 5.0 rebounds per game. In the following three years he played for Partizan Belgrade, winning the Adriatic League championship in 2023. During the 2022\/23 EuroLeague season he scored 11.4 points per game and grabbed 5.1 rebounds on average. In the 2023\/24 season he had 10.2 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTES<\/u><\/em><\/strong> \u2013 He played the Israeli All-Star Game in 2017\/18. He was MVP of EuroLeague Round 10 during the course of the 2018\/19 season. He made Olimpia\u2019s winning shot in Game 1 of the EuroLeague playoffs against Bayern Munich in 2021. During the 2021\/22 Eurocup season, he averaged 12.9 points and 5.5 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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