| Nixon moves to Pro A France
Ray Nixon, who recently won the Finnish League..
.. Championship with Namika Lahti, and who has been voted Player of the Year, signed a 1-year deal with SPO Rouen (Pro A, France, this season having a 11-19 record). The extremely versatile Nixon played very good this past season by averaging 17.0 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 1.4 apg, 1.1 spg and 0.8 bpg while shooting 58% from the floor - including a highly impressive 47.3% from threepoint land. Nixon was also named Forward of the Year, Import Player of the Year and being voted in the Finnish 1st Team All-League and All-Imports 1st team. The former player of Wisconsin U. graduated in 2006, and played his first two professional seasons with Tübingen in the German Bundesliga.
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