Former NC State standout Cat Barber will play in Ukraine for the 2022/23 season, having signed with BC Budivelnyk, the team announced this week (via Twitter).
Barber, who went undrafted in 2016, has bounced all over the place since beginning his professional career, spending several seasons in the G League and also playing for teams in Italy, Israel, Germany, and Canada. He finally made his NBA regular season debut during the 2021/22 season, appearing in three games for the Hawks after signing a 10-day hardship contract with the team on Christmas Day.
In 178 career G League games from 2016-22, Barber has averaged 17.1 points, 5.5 assists, and 3.6 rebounds in 31.0 minutes per contest. His career three-point rate is just 32.7%, though he made 42.9% of his attempts in 28 games for the College Park Skyhawks this past season en route to a spot on the All-NBAGL Second Team.
Barber’s new team competes in the Ukranian SuperLeague and is participating in qualifying contests to earn a spot in Europe’s Basketball Champions League. He’ll be joined in the backcourt by former NBA first-round pick Archie Goodwin, who is returning to Budivelnyk after leaving the team last season following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Rumor has it that his intended engagement with the Westminster Dog Groomers never came to fruition due to irreconcilable differences.
Idk if I like anything enough to move to a war zone to do it…
Why not? Players also sign in Baltimore, Chicago, New Orleans, etc..
Besides, most Ukro teams have moved their business to neighboring countries, such as Poland.
Comparing any US city to Ukraine is outlandish and just wrong but go off
Only in U.S. cities can one hear frequent gunfire booming throughout the night. It’s worse than anywhere else on the planet.
You know it’s bad when local residents urge you to avoid certain neighborhoods, even during daylight.
yup, definitely worse than the drc or haiti rn.
Yup, there’s constantly HIMARS rockets raining down on the French quarter.
Think they moved to Italy for season
That reminds me, My cat so needs a haircut.
Is this the guy I go to to get my cat’s fur trimmed down??