M.Kiryat Gat lands Marcus Tyus, ex DEAC

Maccabi Kiryat Gat (National League) landed 32-year old American 185cm guard Marcus Tyus (college: Omaha) for new season. He was the top scorer at Debreceni Egyetem in Hungarian A Division last season where in 32 games he averaged impressive 16.5ppg, 3.6rpg and 4.1apg.
For three previous seasons (2022-25) he played at Norrkoping Dolphins (Basketligan) in Swedish league. The team played in three different competitions (!!!) that year, and he was exposed to basketball on different levels. He also played 38 games in Swedish Basketligan where he had very remarkable stats: 16.9ppg, 3.1rpg, 3.0apg and 1.5spg in 2024-25 year. Tyus helped them to win the league title (twice). He can count that season as a very successful as was awarded Eurobasket.com All-Swedish League Import Player of the Year, Eurobasket.com All-Swedish League Player of the Year and Guard of the Year. Tyus also played 6 games in FIBA Europe Cup where he recorded high stats: 15.5ppg, 3.2rpg, 2.2apg and 1.5spg in 2024-25 year.
He is a very experienced player. Tyus has played also professionally in Belgium (Belfius Mons Hainaut), Cyprus (AEK Larnaca), Germany (Science City Jena), Slovakia (Handlova) and Sweden (Boras).
He graduated from University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2017 and it will be his tenth season in pro basketball.

Maccabi Kiryat Gat roster for 2026-27:

Guards:
Marcus Tyus
Ido Shabat
Tomer Cohen
Noam Yaacobi

Forward:
Raviv Pitshon

Center:
Jonatan Mor