This week's signings (December 13)

During the NBL1 offseason, we will be keeping track of all the latest signings, moves and hirings across the country.

To see all the updates, follow the 2024 NBL1 Roster Tracker here. 

Check out all the signings from the past week below:

Roman Siulepa

A star on the rise, Roman Siulepa has re-signed for the 2024 season with the South West Metro Pirates. 

The hyper-athletic 17-year-old averaged 8.5 points, 5.8 rebounds and shot 50 percent from the field in 20 minutes per game for the Semi-Finalist Pirates.

Touted as Australia's next major prospect, he’ll celebrate his 18th birthday in the NBL1 next year. 

Erin Bollman

The NBL1 North Defensive Player of the Year, Erin Bollman, will head down south to the champions, Northside Wizards for the 2024 season. 

In 2023 she averaged 16.7 points, 8.8 rebounds, 7.1 assists, 3.0 steals and 1.0 block per game for the Darwin Salties. 

After leading the Salties to the Finals, Bollmann stood out among the stacked roster of talent in the NT. But she’ll now join Kelsey McDermott, AJ Johnson, Saskia Gunness and Nadeen Payne on the 2024 roster. 

Zitina Aokuso

The recently announced Opal, Zitina Aokuso is set to return to Mount Gambier for the 2024 season. 

She missed the first half of the season with injury, but returned in late June to prepare for the WNBL season. In her nine games with the Pioneers, she averaged 8.0 points, 4.7 rebounds and 2.0 assists. Far from her career average of 15 points a game in the NBL1, she’s carried her momentum into the WNBL season, averaging a career-high for the Townsville Fire. 

Zitina Aokuso sent that outta here! ?

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Nick Marshall 

Star on the rise in the NBL, Nick Marshall is returning for his fourth season with Mount Gambier.

In 2023 he averaged 22.2 points, 6.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists for the Pioneers, losing to the Knox Raiders in the Preliminary Finals. In NBL24 he was elevated to a full roster spot for the first time with the Adelaide 36ers - where he has played 10 games.

Nick Marshall went off in the Qualifying Finals ?

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Ioannis Dimakopoulos

After a dominant season with the Joondalup Wolves, the seven-foot Greek star is headed to the Perth Redbacks for 2024. 

The starting centre for the Grand Final runners-up had a major impact on the Wolves’ run, averaging 11.4 points, 7.3 rebounds, 4.1 assists and a block per game. 

His best moment came in the Preliminary Finals, sending the defending champions Rockingham Flames home in overtime, with a three-point dagger to advance to the Grand Final. 

The shot to get into the Grand Final ?

Ioannis Dimakopoulos claim in CLUTCH ?

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He will join the Redbacks which features an almost full roster going into the new year. He’ll play alongside Tevin Jackson, Maris Colto, Jacob Formosa, Denzel Jackson, Kyden Edman and more.

Teige Morrell 

NBL1 West superstar Teige Morrell is set to make a major move, signing with the Lakeside Lightning for the 2024 season. 

Morrell has spent the past three seasons in the NBL1, winning the NBL1 Central MVP, the Championship, and Finals MVP in 2021. From 2022 to 2023 she was the Joondalup Wolves' star, making back-to-back NBL1 West First Teams, with two Finals appearances finishing in the Preliminary and Semi-Finals. 

OKAY TEIGE ?

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— NBL1 (@NBL1) April 16, 2022

Last season, the star forward averaged 22 points, 12.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists and shot 57 percent from the field. 

Currently a development player with the Perth Lynx, the American import has made Australia home, and is now headed to the Lightning. She joins Ruby Benn on Lakeside’s squad for 2024. 

Lizzy Tonks

NBL1 East superstar Lizzy Tonks will return to Canberra for the 2024 season.

Tonks averaged 19.5 points, 7.2 rebounds and 4.3 assists for the Canberra Nationals last season, where she took her game to a new level and was rewarded with a WNBL contract with the Adelaide Lightning.

Joining her Nationals coach Nat Hurst in Adelaide, Tonks has been a star of the conference the past two seasons – scoring 20 points or more in 12 games in the most recent season. She signed on as the first Nationals player this offseason but was quickly joined by Elise Finney for the 2024 roster.