Spain – Oliver Arteaga claims Spanish LEB Gold weekly honour

OliverArteaga Experienced Oliver Arteaga (208-C-83) had an amazing evening in the last round for Melilla and that’s him to receive a Eurobasket.com LEB Gold Player of the Week award for round 6.The 33-year old center had the game-high 17 points adding five rebounds for Melilla in his team’s victory, helping them to beat CB Clavijo (#18, 0-6), the league’s bottom-ranked team 90-75. The game was not the highest importance and did not have significant influence on top of the standings. Melilla is placed at 16th position in Spanish LEB Gold. Melilla is rather a weak team placed in lower part in the standings. They need more victories to improve their 2-4 record. Arteaga turned to be Melilla’s top player in his first season with the team. Arteaga has impressive league stats. He is in league’s top in points (9th best: 14.8ppg), rebounds (9th best: 7.0rpg) and averages solid 62.7% FGP.The second most remarkable performance in last round’s games was 31-year old American forward Jason Cain (208-F-85, agency: Stealth Sport) of Marin. Cain impressed basketball fans with 20 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists. Bad luck as Marin lost that game 67-79 to slightly higher-ranked FC Barcelona II (2-4). The game was …

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