Know Your Team: Brian Addison

Cape Breton Highlanders

6'9

Forward

From Queens, New York

With wide-reaching experience and undeniable skills on the front court, the Cape Breton Highlanders will be hoping to make the most of Brian Addison's abilities as they make a push for their first-ever playoff appearance this NBL Canada season.

Addison spent two years with the Monroe Mustangs, he moved upstate and to the NCAA Division 1 in 2007, when he joined the Buffalo Bulls. After leaving Buffalo, he joined the Washington Generals, the perennial opponents of the Harlem Globetrotters, for one season, later trying out for the Globetrotters themselves.

He first played his first professional season for Sampaenese Basket in Portugal, averaging 18.2 points and 8.3 rebounds per game, before moving on to play in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. In 2013, he entered the NBA D-League Draft, where he was chosen in the seventh round by the Springfield Armour.

He instead, however, made his NBL Canada debut for the Halifax Rainmen, averaging 11.0 points and 7.2 rebounds in 18 games. After a season spent in central America - with both Plaza Fernando Valerio in the Dominican Republic and Titanicos in Mexico - he returned to Canada and joined the Island Storm. He appeared in 40 games for the Storm in 2015-16, starting in 25, and averaged 10.8 points and 7.2 rebounds.

The following season he joined the Saint John Riptide, where he played for two years, reaching the Atlantic Division semi-finals both times. After seeing his role reduced in his second season, he joined the Windsor Express in 2018.

Despite putting up an average 8.8 points in 11 starts for the Express, he and the team parted ways and he joined the Cape Breton Highlanders ahead of the season's transaction deadline. The Centre 200, then, will be his home base as shows what he can still do.

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