Players
Luca Yates
Luca Yates
2024 Averages
1.0
PPG
0.0
APG
0.3
RPG
50
FG%
Biography
The Townsville product enters his second NBL season at the Illawarra Hawks on the back of a standout NBL1 North championship winning performance with the Mackay Meteors.
Having grown up in Far North Queensland and beginning his basketball journey in Townsville and then attending the NBA Global Academy at the Centre of Excellence, spent a season at Barry University.
After that 2022/23 season, returned home to Townsville to play out the rest of the NBL1 North season with his hometown Heat where he finished with 15.1 points and 9.4 rebounds with the 19-year-old centre shooting at 57.3 per cent from the field.
Spent the NBL season as a development player at the Hawks before then playing a key role in the NBL1 North championship season for Mackay alongside Illawarra teammate Todd Blanchfield.
Produced 12.0 points and 7.1 rebounds a game while shooting 61 per cent from the field in the championship journey for the Meteors with the 20-year-old big man to continue his upward trajectory into someone earning NBL minutes at the Hawks.