Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv has added another weapon to its backcourt by signing shooting guard Antonius Cleveland to a two-year contract. Cleveland (1.96 meters, 29 years old) finished the previous season in Israel with Hapoel Eilat. He averaged 17.6 points on 40.7% three-point shooting, 4.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.8 steals in 11 games. Cleveland would have ranked third in the league in scoring if he had played enough games to qualify for the leaderboard. He also was the Israeli League slam dunk contest champion. Cleveland will make his Turkish Airlines EuroLeague debut next season.
Maccabi brings in defensive star Antonius Cleveland
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Two successful years in Australia
Cleveland started the 2022-23 season with the Adelaide 36ers in the Australian League. There, he averaged 15.8 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.9 steals in 28 appearances. Cleveland repeated as the winner of the Damian Martin Trophy as the Australian League's Defensive Player of the Year. He won it in his first season in Australia, 2021-22, with the Illawarra Hawks, too.
After starring at Southeast Missouri State University, Cleveland spent the first four years of his professional career in the NBA and the G League. He played for both the Dallas Mavericks and the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA and for the Santa Cruz Warriors, the Texas Legends and the Oklahoma City Blue in the G League. Cleveland is Maccabi's third signing of the summer, following the additions of James Webb and Tamir Blatt.