Courtesy of Eurobasket LLC We bring you last week's top former Lakers players who are currently playing in pro basketball.
#1. Experienced Akeem Vargas (6'4''-SG-1990, played in 2006-10, plays pro in Germany). He could not help MLP Academics Heidelberg to beat Brose Bamberg (8-13) in the German BBL. Vargas scored only 4 points in 17 minutes. his team was defeated 98-83 on the road by the much lower-ranked Brose Bamberg (#12). This season Vargas averages 2.9ppg and 1.3rpg. He is a naturalized German.
#2. Alan Kikwaki (6'8''-F-1999, played in 2018-20, plays in Germany) led Neustadt TSV to a victory against the seventh-ranked Oldenburger TB (6-10) 81-72 in the German Regionalliga (fourth division) in Saturday night's game. He scored 11 points, had 8 rebounds and made 2 blocks. TSV Neustadt temps Shooters (20-11) is placed first in North-1 group. It was his team's third consecutive victory in a row. It's Kikwaki's first season with the team. Kikwaki has relatively good stats this year 11.2ppg, 7.9rpg, 2.3apg and 1.3spg in 15 games he played so far.
#3. Walter Charlton (6'4''-F, graduated '2012, currently in Bahamas) was not able to help Regulators in their game against Rockets (9-1) in the Bahamas NPBA. It was not his best game last Friday. Charlton scored only 2 points and had 4 steals in 16 minutes. The third-placed Regulators (5-5) was defeated 76-64 in a derby game by the leading Rockets in the Michael Boshang Cooper group. There are only two games left until the end of the Regular Season. So now every game will be critical. This season Charlton averages 5.0ppg and 6.0rpg.
#4. Solomon Clayton (6'7''-F, played in 2017-19, plays pro in Georgia) was not able to secure a victory for Astrali (1-4) in their last game. Despite his good performance Astrali was badly defeated95-79 in a derby game by the second-ranked Sokhumi. Clayton scored 10 points, grabbed 9 rebounds, passed 6 assists and added 2 blocks. It's Clayton's first season with the team. This year he averages 9.0ppg, 7.0rpg, 3.0apg and 1.2bpg in five games.
Other former Iowa Lakes Community College players, who play in pro basketball:
Deondre Parks (6'1''-G-1992, played in 2012-14) played for Craiova in Romanian Liga Nationala few monts ago
Kyle Beisch (6'3''-G-1997, played in 2016-18) played for Team Denver in the Eurobasket S.League last year
Notice: The list above includes only some of alumni playing currently in pro basketball. Check complete list of Iowa Lakes Community College basketball alumni.
Akeem Vargas is last week best Lakers alumni, who plays professional basketball (Photo: @mlpacademicsheidelberg)
