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Windy City Bulls Sign Coreontae DeBerry

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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The Windy City Bulls roster continues to grow with the addition of former Cincinnati Bearcat, Coreontae DeBerry. As the NBA Development League season draws near, the Bulls are quickly adding to their roster.

The news was broken by DeBerry himself on Twitter:

It's Official I will be joining the Windy City Bulls pic.twitter.com/BCedjnODgZ

— Coreontae DeBerry (@DEBERRY22) October 14, 2016

The former Bearcat played two seasons with the AAC powerhouse between 2014-2016. He played 67 games and averaged 12.6 minutes per game. Despite seeing such limited time on the court, DeBerry showed marked improvement in his stats between his first and second year on the team. He set career best marks in minutes, points, rebounds, field goal percentage, free throw percentage and remained solid at one block per game.

All highlight videos are highlights and don’t play up player weaknesses, but DeBerry clearly has size at 6-foot-10 and 270 lbs. However, a lot of these highlights show that he was hitting shots from the top of the key, rolling off of screens and finishing fast breaks where he was out in front of everyone. Out in front on a fastbreak is not traditionally where a center would be positioned.

If DeBerry has the athleticism hinted at in this video and can continue to improve in the D-League, he could present an intriguing option for Chicago in the future.

Earlier this year, we wrote about some of the options that the Bulls will have at center over in Hoffman Estates. The options weren’t all that great, and some were definitely not serious, but adding an intriguing and apparently athletic guy like DeBerry certainly fits with what Windy City needs. Prior to this signing, they only had one true center, Ian Chiles.

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The Bulls have a lot of sorting out to do, but we should have a pretty good idea of what kind of team Windy City will put on the court within the next couple of weeks leading into the first game of the season on November 11. Until then, we’ll just have to keep an eye on the team and see what other moves they make.

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