After losing the Mexican Juan Toscano at the hands of the Los Angeles Lakers in Free Agency, the champion Golden State Warriors closed the signing of a new Latin American player. In this case it is the rookie Dominican Lester Quinoneswho will be one of the two two-way contracts of Steve Kerr’s team in the 2022-2023 season.
Quinones, 1.96 and 22 year old escortspent the last three NCAA seasons in the University of Memphis, where for example he was briefly a partner of another member of the Warriors like James Wiseman. In 2021-2022 he averaged 10 points, 3.5 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.2 steals, 45% from the field and 39% from triples, being precisely the shot of three his main weapon. More than half of the Dominican’s field attempts came from the perimeter and he had also been extremely accurate in 2020-2021 (40% accuracy).
That good hand from Quiñones was also seen in the recent California Classicwhere he had a mean of 9.7 points and 4.7 rebounds in 24.2 minutes, scoring 1.7 triples per game, with 36% accuracy. In the Warriors there are never too many shooters and the former Tigers will help in that aspect, dividing his days between the G League and the NBA.
Lester Quiñones shining in his second Summer League game for the Warriors
19 PTS
5 REB
1 STL pic.twitter.com/giTCjgej3o— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) July 4, 2022
Quiñones already represented the dominican national team in the year 2018, shining in the Premundial U18: 17.5 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists in six appearances, with a 42% on three-pointers in 7.2 attempts per game. A sniper.
The perimeter will also be part of the Golden State squad that will play the Las Vegas Summer Leaguewith debut scheduled for this friday july 8 in front of the New York Knicks.
