Who is Brandon Nazione, the American from Nacional who defined the classic against Peñarol?

Nationale, 28 years old, he scored 18 points and had eight rebounds, but the best of his game came in the last quarter where Nacional managed to turn the score around to win the classic.

This is his third season in Uruguayan basketball after playing in 2018-2019 and 2021-2022.

In the first of those seasons he played 37 games averaging 15.3 points. In the second he arrived for the 19th date instead of Ryan Ejim, he played 16 games and averaged 17.9 goals.

He is a power forward from open game and proven scoring quality. Nevertheless, in Nacional he stood out against Peñarol by posting and fighting in the painted area to take rebounds. It is what Uruguayan basketball has: the greats must fight inside. and nationality he performed it very well in a classic after having debuted last week in defeat against Malvín with three points and a discreet performance in 29 minutes on the pitch.

In National, Nazione came as a replacement de Anthony Danridge.

In January 2019, when he was standing out in Olimpia, Nazione told his story to Referee. He said that he played American football until he was 16, that he came to coach Australian rules football in Melbourne and that his favorite sport was football until he opted for basketball.

At the high school level he was a teammate of the NBA Denzel Valentine and played in Germany, Argentina, Iceland and Italy, the country of his grandfather.

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