29-year old Nigerian ex-international power forward Trevor Mbakwe (207-111kg-89, college: Minnesota, agency: Pensack Sports) left MHP RIESEN Ludwigsburg (BBL). He has a double citizenship as he also holds American passport. In 5 BBL games he averaged 9.2ppg, 7.4rpg and 1.0spg this season. Mbakwe also played 4 games in Basketball Champions League where he had 5.5ppg, 5.5rpg and 1.5apg.
The last season Mbakwe played at Fiat (Serie A) in league. In 25 games he recorded 12.8ppg and 7.6rpg. He helped them to win the cup. He can count that season as a very successful as was selected to Eurobasket.com All-Italian SerieA 2nd Team and All-Imports Team. Mbakwe also played 13 games in Eurocup where he got 8.0ppg, 4.8rpg (#5 in the league) and 1.0spg.
Among other achievements he received Eurobasket.com All-Italian SerieA Center of the Year award back in 2014.
Mbakwe also represented Nigeria at the World University Games in Shenzhen (China) seven years ago. But his stats at that event were not that impressive as he did not score anything.
Mbakwe is a very experienced player. He has played also professionally in Israel (Maccabi Fox Tel-Aviv), Russia (Zenit), Spain (Unicaja Malaga) and Italy (Virtus Roma).
Mbakwe attended University of Minnesota until 2013 and it is his sixth season in pro basketball.