Josh Adams

Joshua Taylor Adams (born November 16, 1993) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Brisbane Bullets of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for the Wyoming Cowboys before playing professionally in Russia, Turkey, China, the NBA G League, Spain, Italy, Australia, Slovenia and Greece.

Early life Adams is a native of Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Chaparral High School in Parker, Colorado, where he averaged 5.8 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game as a sophomore in 2009–10.

As a junior at Chaparral in 2010–11, Adams was named First-Team All-Conference and earned Second-Team All-State honors after averaging 16.1 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game. He averaged 18.0 points, 3.7 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.5 steals per game to earn First-Team All-Conference and All-State honors. He was also named to the Denver Post's All-Colorado team. and scored a career-high 38 points against New Mexico on January 16, 2016. He was subsequently named Mountain West Player of the Year and earned first-team All-Mountain West. He also earned AP Honorable Mention All-American for the 2015–16 season, becoming the first Cowboy to be named an All-American since 2002. On July 30, 2016, he signed with Russian club Avtodor Saratov of the VTB United League. He was unable to debut for Avtodor until January 2017 after being in a car accident in August 2016.

Adams played for the Dallas Mavericks at the 2017 NBA Summer League. On January 5, 2018, he left Efes and signed with Beşiktaş for the rest of the season.

On August 14, 2018, Adams signed a one-year deal with the Shanxi Brave Dragons of the Chinese Basketball Association. On November 4, 2018, he scored 34 points in a 101–88 loss to the Shanghai Sharks. In 15 games for Shanxi, he averaged 26.4 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game.

On January 20, 2019, Adams was acquired by Raptors 905 of the NBA G League for the rest of the 2018–19 season. He was named the ACB Most Spectacular Player for the 2019–20 season. He averaged 12.9 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game in ACB play.

On July 20, 2020, Adams signed with Virtus Bologna of the Lega Basket Serie A.

On July 20, 2021, Adams signed with the Tasmania JackJumpers of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL) for the 2021–22 season. He averaged 17 points per game for the season and helped the JackJumpers reach the NBL Grand Final series in their first season.

On July 30, 2022, Adams signed with Cedevita Olimpija of the Slovenian League. In 29 games in the Adriatic League in 2022–23, he averaged 14.1 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.0 steals per game. He also averaged 13.9 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 18 Eurocup games.

In August 2024, Adams signed with Greek club Promitheas. He appeared in one game for Promitheas before joining Maroussi in mid October. He left Maroussi in late November.

Personal life Adams is the son of Phillip and Stephanie Adams. He has a younger sister, Jaylen, and an older brother, Jordan, who played at Western State.

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