Seagulls tab Remu Raitanen

Helsinki Seagulls (Korisliiga) signed 28-year old Remu Raitanen, a 206cm forward who previously played for KTP-Basket. Raitanen, who played college basketball at USF and is represented by Blacktop Management, averaged 10.0ppg, 6.5rpg, and 1.4apg in 26 Korisliiga games last season. He was named League Player of the Week. In the 2024-25 season, he played for Keflavik IF in the Icelandic league and BC Prievidza in the Slovakian league.
Raitanen was also a member of the Finnish international program for some years. He played for the Finnish Senior National Team between 2022 and 2024 and previously for the Under 20 National Team during 2016.
Raitanen also represented Finland at the FIBA Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament in Valencia (Spain) two years ago. During this event he scored an average of 3 points per game and had 1 rebound per game.
He is a very experienced player. Raitanen has played professionally in Iceland, Slovakia, and Spain (Caceres and Albacete).
Among many awards, he was selected as the Eurobasket.com All-Finnish League Domestic Player of the Year in 2022.
He graduated from the University of San Francisco in 2020, and this will be his seventh season in pro basketball.