Last season, the American who began his professional career in the NBA G League played for the Birmingham Squadron – the affiliate team of the NBA club New Orleans Pelicans.
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In 45 games played, the American averaged 7.6 points, 2 assists, and 1.7 rebounds, spending nearly 20 minutes on the court per game.
“It must be admitted that the negotiations took quite a long time. We gathered a lot of information about this player because we wanted to be sure about this basketball player’s capabilities. This player is valued not only for his fairly wide offensive arsenal, which allows him to create good shooting opportunities, but also for his strong body, which helps him play defense successfully. This basketball player was entrusted with guarding the opponents’ leaders in his previous clubs.
We understand that this will be his first season in Europe, but a quality basketball program at the university should help him adapt quite quickly to European basketball and become one of the main players on our team,” said Eimantas Skersis, head of the Juventus team, about the rookie.
Before moving to play in the NBA G League, the 193 cm tall guard spent his entire NCAA career at Clemson University – one of the strongest student basketball programs in the USA. C. Hunter spent six seasons with the university’s Tigers team and played 167 games.
The last season was the most successful in the American’s career. C. Hunter averaged 16.5 points, 3 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 1.4 steals, shot 40.7% from three-point range, and made 86.6% of his free throws.
At the end of the season, C. Hunter was selected to the symbolic best five players of the ACC conference.
During his career at Clemson University, C. Hunter scored more than 1700 points and in 2024 was one of the team leaders in the run to the NCAA Elite Eight stage – among the eight strongest universities in the country. In four NCAA tournament games, he averaged 17.8 points, 5.8 assists, and 4.3 rebounds.
The upcoming season with Utena’s Juventus will be the guard’s first in Europe.
Contracts for the upcoming season with Utena’s Juventus are also held by Šarūnas Beniušis, Titas Didžgalvis, Justas Furmanavičius, Brandon Huntley-Hatfield, Paulius Valinskas, and Kenny Pohto.
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