{"id":158682,"date":"2025-07-09T16:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/158682\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:49:10","slug":"former-mizzou-guard-emerges-as-mvp-candidate-in-canadian-basketball-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/158682\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mizzou Guard Emerges as MVP Candidate in Canadian Basketball League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Mizzou Guard Emerges as MVP Candidate in Canadian Basketball League<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One former Missouri Tigers guard is making lots of noise in the Canadian basketball scene.<\/p>\n

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Sean East II, who played his final collegiate season as a graduate student in 2024, is turning heads in his rookie season up north.<\/p>\n

Signed by the Edmonton Stingers of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) in April<\/a>, East II has put up impressive numbers through his first 15 games \u2014 averaging 24.4 points, 5.2 assists, 4.4 rebounds, and 2.2 steals per game.<\/p>\n

As his assistant coach Eric Fawcett<\/a> points out, he\u2019s doing it all with remarkable efficiency, shooting 51.9% from three, 57.7% from the floor, and 93.2% from the charity stripe.<\/p>\n

In his best season at Mizzou (2023-24), East II averaged 17.6 points, 4 assists, 3.5 rebounds, and 1.1 steals per game. Before arriving in Edmonton, the 6-foot-3 guard played 10 games for CSM Constan\u021ba of the Romanian Basketball League during his first professional season, averaging 24.4 points and 4.8 rebounds.<\/p>\n

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The former Tiger is quickly becoming an MVP candidate within the league, making a name for himself with every game. In a standout performance against the Montreal Alliance, the Louisville, Kentucky native led the Stingers to a 94-83 victory<\/a>, posting a season-high 35 points, six assists, and four steals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he\u2019s not the MVP of the league at the midway point, I don\u2019t know who is,\u201d said Stingers head coach Jordan Baker. \u201cHe\u2019s carried us a lot of the time, and now we\u2019ve got guys playing alongside him that are pretty damn good too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite shouldering a heavy load, East II remains humble.<\/p>\n

\u201cI give the credit to my teammates and my coaching staff. They\u2019re letting me play. My teammates are finding me when I\u2019m open, we\u2019re moving the ball well. We started [the season] out slow\u2026 but we finally found our team and I think we\u2019re moving in the right direction,\u201d East II said.<\/p>\n

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As mentioned, the Stingers didn’t start the season too hot, going 2-4 in their first six games. However, with East II leading the charge, they\u2019ve turned things around\u2014now riding a five-game win streak and sitting at 9-6<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was recently named CEBL Weekly host Esfandiar Baraheni\u2019s mid-season MVP<\/a>, showing strong early returns in his first season in the league.<\/p>\n

With just nine games remaining in the regular season, the former Tiger has taken the CEBL by storm, and he doesn\u2019t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be too surprising to see East II pick up interest from top European or NBA teams in the coming months, as he could easily fit on a roster as a gritty two-way player with the ability to control game tempo \u2014 someone who likely won\u2019t be on the secondary market for much longer.<\/p>\n

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Related: Mizzou Becomes Favorite to Land Top-5 Class of 2026 Recruit<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 9, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Mizzou Guard Emerges as MVP Candidate in Canadian Basketball League originally appeared on Athlon Sports. One former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,29962,29961,29960,5183,2709],"class_list":{"0":"post-158682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-canadian-basketball","10":"tag-edmonton-stingers","11":"tag-eric-fawcett","12":"tag-missouri-tigers","13":"tag-rookie-season"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114824306401430143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}