Rasir Bolton put up excellent numbers and earned all-league honors in his debut professional season in Europe.
The former Gonzaga guard will try to recreate his success with a new club in a new country after signing with Serbia’s FK Spartak Subotica, the team said on Thursday.
Bolton’s move follows a successful first season with the Antwerp Giants of the BNXT League, which consists of clubs from Belgium and the Netherlands. The guard averaged 17.6 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 2.5 assists for the squad, garnering All-BNXT First squad recognition.
Bolton had ten games with at least 20 points, including a season-high 29 points in a 102-75 victory over Okapi Aalstar on December 2. The former GU guard, who previously played at Iowa State and Penn State, was the BNXT League’s second-leading scorer, after Tyreke Key, who attended Tennessee and Indiana State.
Antwerp went to the third round of the BNXT playoffs before falling 3-1 in a three-game series versus Filou Oostende.
Bolton, who was named Eurobasket.com’s All-Belgian Pro Basketball League Guard of the Year, will be Spartak Subotica’s second foreign player, joining Montenegrin Danilo Nikolic.
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This is about us all, not just the protectors of Ireland’s rural spirit or the Gonzaga Greens.
Those who have built this narrative will be louder than most when they’re next waiting for Noah’s Ark to rescue them and lamenting insufficient support.
In 1979, studying ecology was only available to a select few in Ireland. Eamon Ryan and Ciarán Cuffe were both pupils at Gonzaga College, a private school in Ranelagh, South Dublin, that was operated by Jesuits. It instilled in them a sense of mission and purpose that, according to recent election results, is now limping rather than roaring as climate change demands.
The Green Party’s drop in support calls into question the common belief that smaller parties in Irish politics must be radical or redundant. This word, used by Michael McDowell to describe the now-redundant Progressive Democrats, should be reconsidered, as being radical is what threatens the Green Party’s redundancy.
Ryan ran a bicycle tour company before becoming a full-time politician. That pursuit conveyed a message that is still relevant today; as Ryan stated early in his political career, “I think you can be enterprising and concerned.” The Green agenda, as he suggested in his resignation statement this week, has been narrated as one of punishment and loss, with climate and nature changes and adaptations commonly referred to as a “attack” on those who see themselves as guardians of Ireland’s true and rural soul against the Gonzaga Greens. It is a narcissistic and totally self-defeating story, and those who created it will be louder than most in criticizing what they see as insufficient assistance when they next look for Noah’s Ark to rescue them.
It would be cliche to say that Ryan’s career has failed. He and his colleagues spent much in the tagline “The Nineties will be Green” almost 30 years ago. They hardly were, but Ryan went on to become a politician who made a significant effect in transportation, renewable energy, climate law, and environmental restoration programs. He did it with dignity and thoroughness, conveying a message that was frequently met with hostility but that other politicians were forced to confront, even if far too many did so halfheartedly.
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