NBLC Rooks: Sudbury Five Edition
The players making their professional debut in the NBL Canada
Dexter Williams, Jr.
6’4 Forward from Jacksonville, Florida
With Moanalua School in Honolulu, Williams won the 2010 and 2011 Oahu Interscholastic Association championship. He would next be seen on the courts in 2014, when he joined the Montana-Western Bulldogs.
Shooting 54% from the field, he averaged 15.8 points and 6.8 rebounds per game in his debut season, he won the Frontier Conference Newcomer of the Year and Most Valuable Player, as well as the first of his two conference first-team honours.
Francis Kiapway
6’3 Guard from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kiapway moved to Hamilton, Ontario, at a young age and later joined St Thomas More school in Oakdale, Connecticut, for whom he took to the the final of the national prep school championship.
From there, he joined the NCAA Division 1 team the Ball State Cardinals in 2014, finishing in the top ten in the Mid-American Conference for shooting in his freshman year. The following year, he led the team and was third in the conference for three-point shooting, and reached the quarter-finals of the CIT Tournament the season after.
He played 103 consecutive games for Ball State and finished with 207 three-pointers, the third-most in the team's history.
