In the middle of July, Rod Odom ’09 signed his fifth professional basketball contract, inking a deal with Nizhny Novgorod of Russia. The club plays in the FIBA Europe Cup as well as the VTB United League along with twelve other clubs from Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland.

This is Odom’s fifth professional team including KAOD (Greece) in 2014-15, Virtus Bologna (Italy) in 2015-16, Astana (Kazakhstan) in 2016-17, and Levallois (France) in 2017-18. Last season Odom averaged 10.1 points and 3.8 rebounds per game for Levallois.

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