Olivier Nkamhoua, 23, the big head player of the Finnish national basketball team, has been in the United States for wrist surgery, which ended his university career at the same time.
The NCAA is the US men’s college league Olivier Nkamhouan patted for. The University of Michigan loanee will miss the rest of the season due to a wrist injury.
The 203-centimeter and 23-year-old Nkamhoua had to have surgery on the wrist of his left hand, the Michigan basketball team announced on Wednesday.
of The Michigan Daily according to the Finn, it will take three to four months to recover, which in practice ends Nkamhoua’s season and at the same time his university career.
The NMKY graduate of Helsinki played before his final season from 2019 to 2023 at the University of Tennessee.
For the Michigan Wolverines, the loss of their second-best point guard stings, as the team has already had its leading scorer, the back man, on the sidelines. Dug McDaniel.
– This is not how things were meant to go for Olivier, worried the Michigan coach, a former NBA player Juan Howard on the club’s website.
– From the moment he stepped on campus, he brought maturity, level, vision and leadership. He has been a true warrior playing with his injury. We know he will come back and have a successful career, Howard praised.
In the current season, Nkamhoua has played in the biggest role of his career. Although the Finn was not able to lead Michigan to victory by his own example (only two wins out of 13 games at the beginning of the year), he has scored an average of 14.8 points, grabbed 7.1 rebounds and served 2.7 baskets per game with a shooting percentage of 51.2.
In recent matches, Nkamhoua’s statistics have weakened, which according to the club’s coaches was due to a wrist injury that plagued him.
– Playing with this injury has been difficult. Such decisions (surgery) are never easy, but something had to be done now, Nkamhoua said.
Nkamhoua has played twenty men’s international matches and last summer he was part of Susijeng’s World Championship team.
If everything goes well, he will have time to recover just in time for the national team’s important summer matches. Susijengi will play next July 2-7 July 2024 in the Olympic qualifiers in Spain.
Finland is chasing a place in the tournament to be played in Valencia and will face Poland and the Bahamas in the initial group stage. Spain, Lebanon and Angola will play in the second initial group of the tournament. Only the winner of the tournament will claim his place at next summer’s Olympic Games in Paris.