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Venezia lands Kaila Charles

Kaila Charles

Kaila Charles

Umana Reyer Venezia (Serie A1) tabbed 27-year old American 185cm forward Kaila Charles (college: Maryland) for new season. She played most recently at Dallas Wings (WNBA). She managed to play in three leagues in two countries last year (!!!). In 13 WNBA games she just recently played she averaged 5.6ppg and 3.5rpg. The lastshe played at DVTK-Hun-Therm Miskolc in Hungarian league. The team played in three different competitions that year, and she had a chance to explore basketball on different levels. Charles also played 30 games in Hungarian A Division where she recorded 14.8ppg, 7.2rpg, 2.0apg and 1.6spg. She helped them to win the cup and make to league final. Charles can count that season as a very successful as was voted to Eurobasket.com All-Hungarian League All-Imports Team and Eurobasket.com All-Hungarian League Second Team. And finally she contributed to 6 games in Euroleague where she got 13.5ppg, 8.0rpg, 2.5apg and 1.3spg.
In 2020 she was drafted by Connecticut Sun (WNBA) in second round (23rd overall).
The former University of Maryland standout is in her sixth season in pro basketball.
She represented USA at the World University Games in Taipei (Taiwan) eight years ago. During this event she scored an average of 15.3 points per game and had 6.7 rebounds per game.
Charles is a very experienced player. And here thanks to pro basketball she experienced life in five different countries playing on three different continents. She is familiar with European, Latin American and of course North American leagues. Charles has played previously professionally in Hungary, Israel (Hapoel Petah Tikva and Hapoel Rishon Le-Zion), Mexico (Fuerza Regia), Russia (Dynamo Novosibirsk Region) and WNBA (New York Liberty, Seattle Storm and Atlanta Dream).
Among many awards she won Hungarian League championship title in 2024. She received Eurobasket.com All-Hungarian League Player of the Year award and Eurobasket.com All-Hungarian League Import Player of the Year award in 2024.

Tags : KAILA CHARLES, UMANA REYER VENEZIA, ITALIAN BASKETBALL, ITALIAN TRANSACTIONS, EUROLEAGUE

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