Former men’s basketball player Dallis Joyner has left his team in Finland and is currently on a two-week tryout for a team in Israel, according to the player himself.
Joyner signed with Kouvot Kouvola of the Korisliiga, Finland’s top-tier basketball league, over the summer. However, according to a conversation through Twitter, he left the team recently, saying that: “the situation was a little shaky as far as professionalism got.”
On Saturday, he landed in Israel to begin a two-week long tryout with Maccabi Kiryat Bialik. The team plays in the country’s second-tier, the Liga Leumit.
From Norfolk, Va., Joyner was a four-year starter for Stony Brook. He played in 124 games for the team, averaging 7.3 points per game and 5.9 rebounds per game. He finished his college career second in the school’s Division I history with 731, eighth in points with 903, and first in blocks with 83.
In his senior year last season, he averaged 9 points per game and shot 61.1 percent from the floor, both career highs. In the America East Tournament that year, he was named to the all-tournament team, and scored the game-winning, buzzer-beating tip-in during the semi-final game against Albany.