Veteran shooting guard Dwayne Bacon will continue his playing career outside of the NBA, having signed with AS Monaco Basket, the team announced today in a press release.
Bacon, 26, was selected with the 40th overall pick in the 2017 draft and spent his first three seasons in Charlotte before joining the Magic for the 2020/21 season. He appeared in all 72 of Orlando’s games last season, establishing new career highs in PPG (10.9), RPG (3.1), and MPG (25.7), though he still struggled to score efficiently, making just 40.2% of his field goal attempts, including 28.5% from beyond the arc.
In four total NBA seasons, Bacon has averaged 7.3 PPG and 2.6 RPG in 207 games (19.4 MPG). He joined the Knicks for training camp this offseason, but was beaten out by Wayne Selden for the 15th spot on the team’s regular season roster and was waived at the end of the preseason.
Bacon will join former NBAers Mike James, Donatas Motiejunas, and Donta Hall on AS Monaco’s roster. The team, which competes in France’s top basketball league, won the EuroCup title in 2020/21 and is playing in the EuroLeague for the first time in ’21/22.
Ok that’s gotta be 1 of the strongest teams in Europe right now. Idk what the rest of their team looks like but MJames, D-Mo, DHall & Bake could all easily be in the NBA rn. That’s a strong quartet no doubt
That’s what happens when you are a team in Monaco, you see players don’t pay income tax, so their salaries are sooo much higher than the rest of players once taken taxes off.
Who wouldn’t wanna play in a glamorous place like Monaco & on top of that you make a whole lotta more $$$ tax free!!!