Moncton Magic

6’4

Guard

From Lagos, Nigeria

Jeremiah Mordi was flying under the radar, until he found himself a home in the NBL Canada, where he and his much-valued basketball skills have thrived.

An All-Conference player in junior and senior year at Valley Stream Central, Mordi would then go on to join the Queen’s College Knights. Averaging a career-best 19.2 points per game in his senior year, as well as 6.9 rebounds, he earned him All-East Coast Conference second team honours.

In four years with the Knights, he scored 1285 points, the twelfth-highest all-time total, while his 529 rebounds is the school's fourteenth-highest total.

His time with Queen's over, he went on to play semi-professionally in the Global Basketball Summer League and for the New York Fearless in the American Professional Basketball League (APBL). He then went on to play in Mexico, but unable to secure a contract, he made the move to Canada and, in 2017, joined the Saint John Riptide.

Mordi made big impression in his debut season, averaging 11.6 points per game, he quickly worked his way into the starting lineup, beginning 31 out of 37 games. He finished the season in the top ten for three-point percentage in all of the league, as well as in the top twenty in blocks.

After the enormous impression made in his first year, it was no wonder why the Riptide were keen to retain Mordi for the following season, which is exactly what they did. Hey played a key role for the Riptide in his second season, starting in every game he played and leading the struggling side to the playoffs.

For the 2019-20 season, Mordi signed with defending NBLC Champions Moncton Magic, immediately playing the same role for his new team as his old. Before the season suspension, he had two separate runs of nine games where he scored in double digits and was one of the top scorers for the Magic and in the league.

Picture: Acadie Nouvelle