The new Zalgiris center sat down with Javier Gancedo ahead of the 2024-25 EuroLeague season
Bryant Dunston: ‘It’s going to be tough playing this year without him’
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You could say that Bryant Dunston has been there and done it all. Aged 38 and with two Turkish Airlines EuroLeague championships to his name, the veteran center was picked up by Zalgiris Kaunas in the offseason after showing at Virtus Segafredo Bologna that he still has something left in the tank.
During a sit-down interview with Euroleague.net’s Javier Gancedo prior to the 2024-25 EuroLeague season getting underway, Dunston explains why he signed for Zalgiris, why he is so impressed by two of the club’s new additions, and what it will be like now he doesn’t have to face Kyle Hines, the four-time EuroLeague champion who retired in the summer.
Dunston was a key member of the Anadolu Efes Istanbul squad that won back-to-back EuroLeague trophies in 2021 and 2022, while he also secured back-to-back EuroLeague Best Defender awards in 2014 and 2015, when he was playing for Olympiacos Piraeus. That experience and know-how is going to see him become a crucial member of head coach Andrea Trinchieri’s roster, much like Othello Hunter was during the Italian play-caller’s time at FC Bayern Munich.
There is still room for Dunston to write his name further into the EuroLeague’s history books, as he discusses during the interview, and he is confident that Zalgiris has what it takes to aim for the postseason, so long as he and his teammates focus on a few key facets.