Ionikos ink Rayvonte Rice

Hellenic Coin Ionikos Basketball (A1) agreed terms with 29-year old American guard Rayvonte Rice (193cm-107kg-92, college: Illinois, agency: Slash Sports). He already started the season at AEK Athens. The last season he played at Kyoto Hannaryz in Japanese B1 League where in 51 games he had very impressive stats: 19.8ppg, 5.2rpg, 2.7apg and 1.4spg. 2020-21 was a great season as he was named to Asia-Basket.com All-Japanese B League 2nd Team and All-Imports Team.
Rice has tried to make it to the NBA and played in the NBA Pro Summer League in 2015.
He is quite experienced player. Rice has played in seven different countries on four different continents (Europe, Asia, Latin America and of course North America). He has played previously professionally in France (Aix Maurienne), Iran (Petrochimi), Israel (Hapoel Eilat and Ironi Nes Ziona), Italy (Verona, Jesi and Ravenna), Mexico (Soles), Russia (Avtodor) and NBA Summer League (Phoenix Suns).
His team made it to the Italian Serie A2 Cup final in 2018.
Rice attended University of Illinois until 2015 and it is his seventh season as a professional player.