He joins Johnathan Motley in a frontline of former EuroLeague players
Hapoel Tel Aviv lands veteran big man Ben Bentil
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Hapoel Shlomo Tel Aviv announced on Monday that has signed forward Ben Bentil for the coming season. Bentil (2.04 meters, 29 years old), who has four seasons of Turkish Airlines EuroLeague experience under his belt, spent last season in Japan with the Gunma Crane Thunder where he averaged 17.0 points and 5.5 rebounds per game.
In two seasons with Panathinaikos Athens and another each with EA7 Emporio Armani Milan and Crvena Zvezda Belgrade, Bentil has appeared in 107 EuroLeague games of which he started 40. He averaged 6.0 points on 37.4% three-point shooting and 2.8 rebounds over 15:35 per game. Bentil’s best EuroLeague season came with Zvezda in 2022-23 when he tallied 8.4 points and 3.8 rebounds in 30 games.
Bentil also amassed a slew of trophies with those teams, winning Greek League championships in 2020 and 2021, the Italian League and Cup double in 2022 and the Serbian League and Cup double in 2023.
A native of Ghana, Bentil moved to the United States when he was 15 to play high school basketball and then played college basketball at Providence College. He began his professional career in the G-League with Fort Wayne in the G-League, played briefly for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers in China and then the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA. He then went on to play for Chalons-Reims in France, Bilbao Basket in Spain, Peristeri in Greece and Bahcesehir Koleji in Türkiye.