Expat Hoops Podcast Episode 96 w/ Remy Abell

In Episode 98 of Expat Hoops, we welcome Amanze Egekeze who played for Belmont in college, graduated in 2018, and joins us from Kataja in Finland where he is currently playing in the Korisliiga. This is his second season in Finland, with prior stops in Japan, Korea, Greece, France, and the Netherlands. In addition to his professional career, he became a member of the Nigerian National team and played with the team in the qualifiers for AfroBasket 2021 and World Cup Qualifiers.

Today we welcome René Rougeau. He is a Los Angeles native who played for UNLV in college and is in the midst of his 15th season overseas. This season he’s playing in Finland for the Helsinki Seagulls.Although he has had great success over the course of his career, he's faced a tough start to his pro career and a few set backs along the way. Hear about both the highs and the lows as he recaps his career through New Zealand, Mexico, Venezuela, Israel, France, and Finland.

Today we welcome Remy Abell who had quite the college career stateside before heading overseas. He started at Indiana, spent 2 years there, had to sit out a year to transfer (those rules feel like so long ago now), then spent the last 2 seasons at Xavier. He began an overseas basketball career that is now in it's 8th season, travelling through Finland, Hungary, Bosnia, and Cyprus.

This is Episode 95 of the Expat Hoops Podcast and today we welcome Troy Vasco. The Baltimore native played for the Baltimore Catholic League power Mount Saint Joe's before heading off to Allegany College in Mountain Maryland prior to becoming a professional basketball player. In fact, he would even teach as his day job while training and playing semi-pro for a few years post college before officially becoming a pro player. When we sat down with Troy, he had played in Antigua for 3 years and is still looking for new challenges abroad.

In Episode 94 of the Expat Hoops Podcast, we welcome former overseas pro Sean McCaw. His pro career lasted over a decade and he enjoyed it so much overseas, he stayed. He joins us from Germany today to talk about his experiences in his career as well as what he does today to stay active in the world of overseas basketball.

We welcome Rocky Kreuser in Episode 93 of the Expat Hoops Podcast. After a stellar college career at North Dakota State University, the Minnesota native’s pro career started in 2022 in Germany. This season he joined Belgian powerhouse Antwerp Giants where he averages 7.9 points and 4.7 rebounds through 19 games so far. He sat down with us from Antwerp to talk about how his career overseas got started as well as his experiences on and off the court while playing basketball professionally overseas.

We welcome Roydell Brown in Episode 92 of the Expat Hoops Podcast. His pro career started in 2020 in Slovakia, then he joined KTP-Basket in Finland for the 2021-22 season and he has played there pretty much ever since (save for the summer of 2023 when he played in Columbia). He joins us from the home of KTP-Basket, Kotka Finland to talk about his experiences on and off the court while playing basketball professionally overseas.

In episode 91 of Expat Hoops, we sit down with Germantown, Maryland native Javon Daniels. Javon is a former Division III player who started out his overseas career in Scotland and has enjoyed it so much, he stayed. He is now in his third season in the Scottish Basketball Championship (SBC for short), now with his second club the Falkirk Fury.

In episode 89 of Expat Hoops Podcast, we're happy to welcome back Jay Threatt. The former George Mason and Delaware State player has been an overseas pro and is now 12 years in. He started off in Iceland and has taken him to all across Europe. Last time we caught up with him two years ago, he was in Poland. A lot has happened since then and he joins us now from Romania.