Sheffield Sharks Sign Nelly Cummings

Sheffield, UK - 19th August, 2024 - American guard Nelly Cummings signs with the B.Braun Sheffield Sharks for the 2024-25 Super League Basketball season. 

The 25-year-old 6’0” guard hails from Midland, Pennsylvania and joins the Sharks for his second season of professional basketball overseas. Cummings played his senior year of college basketball with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2022-23 season, averaging 11.1 points, 4.8 assists and 2.6 rebounds per game in NCAA Division 1. Nelly also played for Colgate and Bowling Green in his collegiate career, all in NCAA Division 1. 

For Cummings’ first season of professional basketball, he played in the Bulgarian NBL for Akademik Bulteks 99 Plovdiv in the 2023-24 season, averaging 16.8 points per game along with 4.4 assists and 2.9 rebounds per game. He more recently played for Proteas EKA AEL in  Cyprus Division A for the end of last season, where he averaged 19.3 points per game, 4.2 rebounds and 4.2 assists. During this summer, Nelly played in the TBT tournament representing the Zoo Crew. 

Nelly is excited to be joining the Sharks for 2024-25, “I’m really excited to sign in Sheffield this season. After I’d heard the Sharks were interested and I’d had the conversations with the coaching staff and management, I was thrilled to be joining up with the team. I have heard a lot of great things about the city and I’m looking forward to this being my next chapter in my career”. 

Sharks Head Coach Atiba Lyons expressed his enthusiasm with the addition of Cummings this season, stating “Nelly is a dynamic guard with great pace and basketball IQ. He has very good college pedigree along with some solid experience overseas last season, so knows what to expect in professional basketball outside of the States. I’m looking forward to getting Nelly and the rest of the roster into Sheffield for pre-season to get started and build up to what is shaping up to be an exciting season of Super League Basketball”.

See Nelly and the Sharks in pre-season action at the Canon Medical Arena against the Caledonia Gladiators on Friday 13th September at 7:30pm. Get your tickets NOW by visiting the tickets page on the website!