Moncton Magic

6’8

Forward

From Las Vegas, Nevada

2xNBLC Champion

3xAll-NBLC Team

Billy White has achieved a lot in his five years in the NBL Canada, being one of the leading scorers and scooping up numerous awards for both himself and his team and making it all look easy.

After graduating from Green Valley High School in Henderson, Nevada, White became the starting power forward of the San Diego State Aztecs, averaging 9.6 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game across four years.

In his last two seasons with the Aztecs, he was a team mate of NBA star Kawhi Leonard and was named to the Mountain West all-conference team. Leonard isn't the only notable future basketball professional White has played with, as he played in the 2011 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament alongside Jimmy Butler and Brad Wanamaker of the Boston Celtics.

White began playing professionally in 2010 with the Iowa Energy in the NBA D-League, later receiving a contract with the Miami Heat, but never played for the team. He moved on to the Rethymno Cretan Kings in Greece and spent the 2013-14 season in Mexico with Fuerza Regia and Guyamas, for whom he averaged 21.4 points in seventeen games.

After playing the 2013-14 season with Ramla in Israel, White went on to make his debut in the NBL Canada in 2015 with the Halifax Hurricanes. In 52 games played in the season, he averaged 11.5 points and 4.7 rebounds, his part in Halifax finishing the season with a league-best record of 29 wins and 11 losses.

The Hurricanes went on to dominate the post-season, sweeping the Island Storm and Saint John Mill Rats en route to the finals, where they beat the London Lightning 4-3 to claim their maiden NBLC championship.

He followed this with a short spell in Cyprus with Apollon before returning to the Hurricanes in November 2016. He started in all 51 games for Halifax, posting 17.2 points and a career-best 8.7 rebounds per contest, results which saw him named to the All-NBL Canada first team. He re-signed with the Hurricanes the following year, building on his offence from the past season with 18.6 points per game, earning his second All-NBLC first team honour.

In 2018 he joined Halifax's Atlantic Division rivals the Moncton Magic. In the season he played 43 games, starting in all but one, and scoring an average of 17.3 points per game, as well as a rebounding average of 6.7 and a career-best 3.4 assist per game.

Moncton finished with the best record in their history and in the NBLC and went on to a resounding win in the finals, sweeping the St. John's Edge 4-0. White was named to the All-NBLC second team.

The Magic retained White's services for the 2019-20 season, in which he started in all nineteen games and led the team in scoring with an average of 18.9 points, as well as finishing in the league's top ten. He was twice named Player of the Week and achieved the highest number of points scored by a player in a single game, with 52 against his old team, the Halifax Hurricanes.

Finding success wherever in Canada he takes his talents, Billy White has firmly established himself in the NBL Canada and become one of its most successful players of recent times.

Picture: Jacinthe Leblanc