Generazione Vincente Napoli Basket announces that it has signed a two-year agreement, with the possibility of bilateral exit at the end of the first sports season, with the American athlete Zach Copeland. The 193cm guard was born in 1997 in Oakland, California. She began her career in Berkeley High School. She continued her studies at University, dividing her time between City College of San Francisco and Illinois State University. His first experience in Europe was in Great Britain, with the Bristol Academy Flyers team. In the 2021-22 season, Copeland played as a protagonist in Ukraine with Kryvbas where he recorded his career-high with 46 points scored. He also does very well in Finland with Loimaa Bisons, where he averages over 18 points, with 40% from three, along with 4 rebounds and 3 assists.
Copeland arrives in Italy in the 2022-23 season where he plays as an absolute protagonist in Serie A2 with Pistoia, leading them to their return to the LBA, and averaging almost 17 points per game, with 39.3% of shots from beyond the arc. Last season he moved to Germany where he played in the Bundesliga with the highly rated Bamberg Baskets team, confirming an average of over 17 points per game, with 4.2 assists, and almost 40% of three-pointers.
Pedro Llompart, Technical Area Manager of Generazione Vincente Napoli Basket: “With the arrival of Copeland we open the market for the next 2024/25 season. Zach is a player we have followed all year. We consider him a very important player who during the season confirmed everything good we thought about him. He is young, with great room for growth, and he is a scorer who played a great championship, in a very important and historic European team, like Bamberg. He is also capable of assisting his teammates, having averaged 4.2 assists per game. We think he is a perfect player for the style of play that our coach Milicic wants. His physical characteristics go very well with the ideas we want to work on next season“.
Zach Copeland’s message: “I greet all the Napoli fans. I’m really excited to return to Italy, and give my all for the club and the city of Naples. I’m looking forward to a fun, and successful season. We will see each other soon!”
