Valencia Basket has reached an agreement with the American combo Omari Moore (1.98m, Pasadena (California), 18/09/2000, 24 years) to join the 2025-26 season. The player has detached himself from the South East Melbourne Phoenix of the Australian League to be able to premiere in the Euroleague and the Endesa League with the Taronja team.
Moore is experienced in European basketball since last season he played with the Darussafaka Basketbol Istanbul, with which he ended up among the best in the Turkish championship in annotation (15.7 points, seventh), assists (5.5, sixth) and recoveries (1.3, seventh) to be the third most valued player in the league (17.2 credits).
He trained at the University of San Jose State, where he agreed with Álvaro Cardenas, and in 2024 he proclaimed champion of the Canadian League. Moore was born in Pasadena and began to take steps in the basketball at the public institute of his hometown, although after finishing his journey in the high school and looking for an opportunity in university basketball, he opted with a year of post-graduated at the Middlebrooks Academy of Los Angeles, there he uploaded his contribution to 20 points and 6 assists, which called the attention of the attention of the attention of the attention of San Jose State.
There he upload his presence on the track and his contribution season after season. Of the 4.9 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists of his year Freshman to already start in his second year, in which he rises to 7.4 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.5 recovery. In the 2021-22 course, the Taronja player Álvaro Cárdenas also coincides, and takes a leap in his performance to 13.2 points, 5.5 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 1.1 plugs. He explored his options in the 2022 draft but decided to erase himself to play his senior year again in San Jose State. And it became the great dominator of the Mountain West Conference with 17.4 points, 4.7 rebounds and 4.8 assists until they were chosen as the player of the year of the Mountain West by the coaches and the media.
He participated in the NBA Draft Combine, in which he gave a wingspan of 208 centimeters and one of the largest hand widths of his promotion despite being an outer player. Although he was not drafted, he signed a Two-Way Contract with Milwaukee's Bucks, played the summer league with them and even participated in a preseason game (five minutes against Oklahoma City Thunder) although he was finally cut. In October 2023, the Toronto Raptors sign it and send it to their subsidiary, so Moore's professional career begins in the G-League.
Moore took his first steps in professional basketball in the Development League with Raptors 905, with which in the 2023-24 season he played 29 games with numbers of 9.2 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.9 assists. Averages that improved in the Showcase Cup with 9.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 4.3 assists. In the summer of 2024 he promised with the Niagara River Lions of the Canadian League and after momentarily abandoning the team to play the Las Vegas summer league with Toronto Raptors, he returned to Canada to help his team to proclaim himself champion of the CEBL with an average of 11.6 points, 6.1 rebounds, 5.5 assists, 1.4 recoveries and 1.4 recoveries and 1.4 recovery. With the title under his arm, in Türkiye he came his first contract in European basketball.
In the Turkish team, Omari Moore found the trust and game time he needed to claim himself as an important player. To the point that it was the player who spent more time on the track at the BSL (more than 34 minutes) in which he accredited 15.7 points, 5.3 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.3 recoveries for 17.2 valuation credits. In his fourth game of the Turkish league he scored 34 points to Fenerbahçe with a 13/17 in field shots (6/9 in triples) for 37 valuation. He stayed close to the triple double against Tofas Bursa (11-7-8) and demonstrated his offensive capacity with 32 points against Manisa Basket. During the last two months he did not fall in any game of the 15 points scored, but he could not avoid the descent of a historical one like the Darussafaka Basketbol istanbul.
On June 12, 2025, the South East Melbourne Phoenix announced the hiring of Omari Moore to dispute the Australian League during the 2025-26 campaign. The appearance of the possibility of playing in the Euroleague and the Endesa League with Valencia Basket led Moore to disconnect from the Australian team and, in this way, commit to the Taronja team, which will be strengthened with the versatility and size of this high combo-guard, of great size of arms and that can combine their virtues as a ball Defend all kinds of players in external positions.
