Issuf Sanon (ex VEF Riga) is a newcomer at Slask

Issuf Sanon

WKS Slask Wroclaw (OBL) added to their roster 25-year old Ukrainian international point guard Issuf Sanon (194cm-78kg-1999) for season 2025-26. He was the top scorer at VEF Riga in Latvian LBL league. He managed to play in three leagues last year. The team played in three different competitions (!!!) that year, and he was exposed to basketball on different levels last season where in 8 LBL games he recorded very impressive stats: 21.5ppg, 5.9rpg, 8.3apg and 2.5spg. A very spectacular season in his career as he was voted Eurobasket.com All-Latvian-Estonian Basketball League European Player of the Year, Eurobasket.com All-Latvian-Estonian Basketball League Player of the Year and Guard of the Year. Sanon also played 29 games in Lat-Est BL where he averaged 14.4ppg, 4.1rpg, 3.5apg and 2.2spg. And finally he contributed to 5 games in Basketball Champions League where he had also remarkable stats: 18.6ppg, 4.8rpg, 5.0apg and 2.8spg.
For two previous seasons (2022-24) he played at SC Prometey Kamianske (Est BL) in Ukraine.
In 2018 he was drafted by Washington Wizards (NBA) in second round (44th overall).
He has been also a member of the Ukrainian international program for some years. Sanon has regularly played for the Ukrainian senior team since 2018 and previously for the Under 20 National Team back in 2019.
He also represented Ukraine at the FIBA World Cup 2023 European Qualifiers two years ago. During this event he scored an average of 8.9 points per game and had 2.4 rebounds per game.
Sanon is quite experienced player. He has played also in Latvia, Lithuania (Siauliai), Slovenia (Petrol Olimpija Ljubljana and Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana) and Ukraine (Dnipro and BK Dnipro 2nd team).
Among many awards he was selected Eurobasket.com All-FIBA Europe Cup Young Player of the Year back in 2020.

WKS Slask Wroclaw roster for 2025-26:

Guard:
Kadre Gray

Forwards:
Jared Coleman-Jones
Blazej Czerniewicz

Center:
Stefan Djordjevic

Coach: Ainars Bagatskis


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