Wilson comes back to Pelister, ex Sodertalje

KK Pelister Sport Bitola (Super League) added to their roster 31-year old American point guard C.J. Wilson (180cm-77kg-1994, college: Young Harris) for new 2026-27 season. It is actually his comeback to Bitola as he has played here before. He was best passer at SBBK Sodertalje in Swedish Basketligan. He managed to play in three leagues in two countries last year. In 12 Basketligan games he recorded 11.8ppg, 4.9rpg, 5.4apg and 1.9spg. Wilson also played for KK Pelister Sport Bitola (Prva Liga). The team played in three different competitions (!!!) that year, and he was exposed to basketball on different levels. He also played 9 games in North Macedonian Super League where he averaged 8.6ppg, 3.0rpg, 4.8apg and 1.3spg. And finally he contributed to 6 games in FIBA Europe Cup where he had 10.3ppg, 4.0rpg, 3.8apg and 1.2spg.
Wilson is quite experienced player. He has played also professionally in Bosnia (Promo), Italy (San Severo), Poland (Niedzwiadki), Romania (Pitesti), North Macedonia (Kozuv), Albania (Teuta and Goga) and The Basketball Tournament (Team Gibson, The Nawd and The Nawf).
Among many awards his college team made it to the North Macedonian Cup final in 2025. Wilson was voted to Eurobasket.com All-North Macedonian League All-Imports Team in 2025.
He graduated from Young Harris College in 2017 and it will be his tenth season as a professional player.

KK Pelister Sport Bitola roster for 2026-27:

Guards:
Ivan Sapundziev
C.J. Wilson
Luka Savikjevikj
Viktor Zlatevski
Camron McDowell

Forwards:
Kosta Kjirilovski
Bojan Dimitriev
Alonzo Range

Center:
Blagoj Dimitriev

Coach: Tane Spasev