{"id":88095,"date":"2025-08-16T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88095\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:25:07","slug":"2-former-michigan-state-basketball-players-are-teaming-up-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88095\/","title":{"rendered":"2 former Michigan State basketball players are teaming up in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">Earlier this week, former <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanavenue.com\/former-michigan-state-wing-gabe-brown-signs-new-professional-deal-01k2myxchy70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michigan State basketball<\/a> star Gabe Brown signed a new contract overseas to continue his professional career in Europe, and now another Spartan has done the same.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6m\">Brown has his new contract, and now Kenny Goins has signed one.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6p\">Goins has spent the last seven seasons overseas, and he&#8217;s played for seven different teams since graduating from Michigan State following a magical Final Four run that unfortunately fell short to Texas Tech. The Spartans were one win away from playing for a national title against a very beatable Virginia team. But we won&#8217;t get into that.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6s\">This week, he signed a contract with Polish club Trefl Sopot and he&#8217;s actually going to be teammates with another former Michigan State starter.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kenny Goins has signed with Polish club Trefl Sopot, where he\u2019ll be teammates with former MSU center Szymon Zapala next season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BBgPmyaoEo\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BBgPmyaoEo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Brooks (@StephenM_Brooks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenM_Brooks\/status\/1956422078518686140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6y\">Goins will be teaming up with this past season&#8217;s starting center in Poland, and it&#8217;s probably the perfect spot for him because he&#8217;ll have a familiar face (not sure that they&#8217;ve ever met, though) to help him adjust to his new home for at least the next year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"71\">Zapala has had a busy offseason himself since leaving Michigan State, earning a spot on the Polish national team ahead of a late-summer international tournament.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"74\">The two Spartans will get to learn from each other and feed off each other while trying to lead Trefl Sopot to big things. They will both have some post-Michigan State playing days professional experience by the time they team up, and you know Spartan fans will be checking up on them religiously.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"77\">Neither Goins nor Zapala really had NBA opportunities, so this is an ideal situation for both of them, and it&#8217;s the first time that I can remember two former MSU players on the same European team.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, former Michigan State basketball star Gabe Brown signed a new contract overseas to continue his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-88095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}