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Sam Froling

Illawarra Hawks

Sam Froling

 

2024 Averages

Full Stats
Points

14.4

PPG

Assists

2.1

APG

Rebounds

6.9

RPG

Field Goals

55

FG%

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# 13
Date of Birth
10th February, 2000
Height
213 cms
Weight
109 kgs
Nationality
Australian
Hometown
Sydney, NSW
Nickname
Big Smoove
College
Creighton Bluejays
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Biography

Is entering his sixth season with the Illawarra Hawks in the NBL, his third as co-captain and continues to emerge as one of the best local bigs in the league.

Grew up in a remarkable basketball family as the youngest child to father Shane and mother Jenny, both who had terrific basketball careers in the NBL and WNBL respectively.

His older brother Harry, and sisters Alicia and Keely have all ended up professional basketballers as well, and he has continued to grow into one of the genuine stars of the NBL now at age 24.

Having grown up in Townsville, spent a season playing college basketball at Creighton University in 2018/19 before coming home to Australia initially to play an NBL1 South season at the Dandenong Rangers.

From there, signed at the Illawarra Hawks to make his NBL debut in 2019/20, and has continued his upward trajectory ever since.

Has continued to get better each NBL season he's played and with the Hawks making a stirring run to get within one game of the Championship Series in NBL24, he was at the forefront of it all putting up 15.4 points and 7.8 rebounds a game.

Received the NBL Next Gen Award on the back of that and had a standout NZ NBL season with the Airs where he played over 33 minutes a game and averaged 21.6 points, 10.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists on the back of shooting at 59 per cent from the floor ahead of building on his 147-game NBL career with Illawarra.

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Game Logs

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Date Opp Mins FG% FT% Reb Ast Blk Stl To Pf Pts SC

â–  Season vs Career

Date Gp Mins FG% FT% Reb Ast Blk Stl To Pf Pts SC
2024
18 25.8 55 63 6.9 2.1 0.7 0.9 1.4 1.9 14.4 28.0
Career
165 25.7 53 60 7.0 1.8 0.8 0.6 1.3 0.0 11.9 0.0

â–  Full Career

Year Team GP Mins FG% FT% Reb Ast Blk Stl To Pf Pts SC
2024-2025
18 25.8 55 63 6.9 2.1 0.7 0.9 1.4 1.9 14.4 0
2023-2024
33 26.9 56 63 7.8 1.9 0.5 0.7 1.7 2.8 15.4 0
2022-2023
28 28.0 50 52 8.0 2.4 0.4 0.6 1.6 2.2 14.0 0
2021-2022
30 26.3 53 63 7.5 1.7 1.1 0.4 1.0 2.0 8.9 0
2020-2021
39 28.2 51 59 7.0 1.6 1.4 0.5 1.3 2.4 11.3 0
2019-2020
17 12.6 46 73 3.4 0.6 0.1 0.2 0.5 1.9 6.0 0

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Todd

Blanchfield

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Height
198 cms
Weight
98 kgs

# 11

Forward

Daniel

Grida

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Height
197 cms
Weight
93 kgs

# 2

Guard

Hyunjung

Lee

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# 6

Guard

William

Hickey

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Height
194 cms
Weight
92 kgs

# 9

Forward

Wani

Swaka Lo Buluk

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Height
198 cms
Weight
88 kgs

# 1

Guard

Tyler

Harvey

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Height
193 cms
Weight
84 kgs

# 22

Forward

Mason

Peatling

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Height
203 cms
Weight
105 kgs

# 7

Guard

Zac

Triplett

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Height
196 cms
Weight
85 kgs

# 30

Center

Lachlan

Olbrich

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Height
208 cms
Weight
107 kgs

# 3

Guard

Trey

Kell III

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Height
193 cms
Weight
99 kgs

# 19

Forward

Luca

Yates

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Height
208 cms
Weight
102 kgs

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Forward

Brad

Ballinger

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Darius

Days

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Kuany

Kuany

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Point Guard

Kobe

McDowell-White

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