“I’m around great people, and when a club wants you back like this, and I love it already, it’s just a perfect reunion during these times.<\/p>\n
“I’m just highly blessed and filled with gratitude that the Breakers love me this much, because I love them right back.”<\/p>\n
Now, Breakers recruit Josiah-Jordan James has opened up about how two former Breakers, Anthony Lamb and Dan Shamir, whom he crossed paths with at Hapoel Jerusalem, encouraged the forward to sign with the club.<\/p>\n
“Before the opportunity even presented itself, just getting to know him [Anthony Lamb] and talking to him. New Zealand and the NBL were by far his favourite adventure professionally. He spoke highly of it. That was even before the opportunity. This was while we were in season,” James said to Fox Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n “It [signing in New Zealand] actually came about because my general manager with Hapoel Jerusalem, Dan Shamir, used to be a coach here. So he still has ties to the club.<\/p>\n “With the war and everything that happened over in Israel that’s going on right now. We just decided to part ways, but he [Shamir] put in a good word for me, and honestly, when I was in talks about coming here, I called Anthony, and he was so excited. He thought it’d be a perfect fit for me. That was really icing on the cake. That’s how the whole thing came about through Dan Shamir.”<\/p>\n