Romanian champs U-BT Cluj-Napoca extended guard and team captain Patrick Richard for three more years, the club announced on Wednesday. Richard (1.96 meters, 32 years old) posted 11.0 points, team-best 4.2 assists and 4.2 rebounds on the way to the second straight Romanian League title last season, while posting a team-high 15.6 points along with 5.2 assists and 4.9 rebounds in the Basketball Champions League. Richard has been with the team for the past three seasons. Prior to that, he played Iowa in the D-League, Sanddringham and New Zealand Breakers in Australia, Wihchen in the Netherlands, Mitteldeutscher in Germany, Chalons-Reims in France, Maccabi Rishon Le-Zion in Israel and Joventut Badalona in Spain.

<center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The news was in and you were fast! But that doesn&#39;t cut out from the joy we have to announce 🥁 that Petrică, broadly known as <a href="https://twitter.com/prichard_3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@prichard_3</a> 😅, continues with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UBTCluj?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UBTCluj</a>,🥳 building on this year&#39;s success onto even more! Keep an eye on us, we just started!🙌<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ucluj?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ucluj</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/basketball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#basketball</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cluj?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cluj</a> <a href="https://t.co/HmkmJrP4wy">pic.twitter.com/HmkmJrP4wy</a></p>&mdash; U-BT Cluj-Napoca (@UBTCluj) <a href="https://twitter.com/UBTCluj/status/1537077974628982787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> 

"We've built up something with coach Mihai Silvasan and the team - so we want to continue on this road," Richard said. "We want to make our club known in Europe and enjoy this success. That's why I've decided to stay. We have plenty of work and an interesting trip awaits us"!