Karim López
Professional career
López played two seasons for Joventut Badalona's "B" team, from 2022 to 2024. He was promoted to the senior squad in 2024 and appeared in four games during the 2023–24 season, scoring two points. After the 2023–24 season, he left Joventut and signed with the New Zealand Breakers of the Australian National Basketball League) (NBL) in August 2024 as a Next Star. He impressed for the Breakers, becoming the youngest player in NBL history to record a double-double that October. Appearing in 25 games during the 2024–25 season, he averaged 9.6 points and 4.7 rebounds.
Karim López
Karim Hiram López Mondaca (born 12 April 2007) is a Mexican professional basketball player who last played for the New Zealand Breakers of the Australian National Basketball League) (NBL).
Early life
López was born on 12 April 2007, in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. His father, Jesús Hiram López, played for the Mexico national basketball team. After first trying out soccer and taekwondo, he began playing basketball from a young age. He began training seriously for basketball at age 12 with the encouragement of his father, and was able to play against players up to five years older than him and still "held his own". At the age of 14, he received an offer to play professionally in Spain for the club Joventut Badalona, and left his family to move there.
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